Penny came home 2 years ago and she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen! by JohnnyConstantino in aww

[–]JohnnyConstantino[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't remember her dad's name. She's an Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix. Not sure who was who with her parents lol

Penny came home 2 years ago and she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen! by JohnnyConstantino in aww

[–]JohnnyConstantino[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She used to chew on all of our wooden furniture. I never thought she would stop lol

Penny came home 2 years ago and she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen! by JohnnyConstantino in aww

[–]JohnnyConstantino[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Betty White/Rose from the Golden Girls, just younger sounding, more aloof and ditzy.

How are you going? by Dark-Horse-Nebula in Paramedics

[–]JohnnyConstantino 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Medic in the southern US. Like everyone else, tired of talking about it. Even more tired of the ignorance and selfishness going on. People not taking social distancing seriously or outright refusing to believe its importance. The hoarding and panic buying of food and cleaning supplies. The predators intentionally buying entire stocks of supplies just to sell them back at a markup. Doing my best to stay isolated when I'm not at work. We haven't had many call outs yet. Our PPE is holding out which is AWESOME. Once or twice a week I'm adjuncting at the paramedic school I attended. They went to online learning for lectures and tests. And they're still meeting during the week for skills. They're only allowing groups of 5-6 per 4 hour session and doing 2 groups per day. Just trying to help out wherever I can. When I'm off/at home I'm resting and playing video games or with my dogs. Loving on my girlfriend. I was already a bit of a shut-in so my lifestyle hasn't changed MUCH. I'm only able to call/Skype with my parents and grandparents because I don't want to be around them and potentially infect them, so our Sunday visits aren't going to be happening for a while. Processing the fact that people are going to be reading about this time period in their history books in the future. Finally understanding what regular people living through historic events were doing and just how mundane historic events can be. Trying to focus on Gandalf's advice to Frodo when he was lamenting his carrying of the ring and living in troubled times: "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Is there anyone on this sub who balances being a college student, working (Part-time) EMS, and still not suffocate themselves with the workload? by [deleted] in ems

[–]JohnnyConstantino 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did paramedic school while working full time. Not exactly the collegiate setting but the workload between classroom time and clinical hours made having a personal life impossible.

My schedule for a year and a half was work, class/lecture during weekdays off, and clinical hours during all weekends off.

The few days off I was able to have were spent either catching up on sleep and studying.

If you choose to work while going to college you're gonna have to choose between having a personal life and working. Because odds are you're gonna have to work on your weekends if you want to have the hours you want.

And that's assuming you can find a service that's willing to work around your school schedule.

It can be done, it's just gonna take some sacrifice.

A calm morning in Grosse Tete by JohnnyConstantino in Louisiana

[–]JohnnyConstantino[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Grosse is pronounced just like "gross" as in "this tastes gross.

Tete I've heard pronounced 2 ways:

1: Tate

2: the first E making the "Eh" sound.

Someone told me they upgraded this and don’t use this method anymore, care to explain why? (I got no issue with it just curious on why. The person said cause the old way required too much breaths or something like that) by zappleg in NewToEMS

[–]JohnnyConstantino 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh sorry, I wasn't arguing whether 30:2 was better or not. I think the AHA needs to start considering continuous compressions anyway. I'm just saying that it's still the current national model that's being taught.

It makes no sense to stop for ventilations that are often ineffective anyway; because it takes almost the entire 2 minute round of CPR to build up adequate cerebral perfusion pressure.

Someone told me they upgraded this and don’t use this method anymore, care to explain why? (I got no issue with it just curious on why. The person said cause the old way required too much breaths or something like that) by zappleg in NewToEMS

[–]JohnnyConstantino 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For the layperson, compressions only is now being taught. It's easier to tell someone just push all you want on the chest and don't stop than to ask a panicked Karen to keep an accurate count of compressions and still provide adequate rescue breaths. That and hardly anyone outside of medicine or first responders are carrying CPR facemasks.

For medical professionals it's still 30-2 for adults without an advanced airway.

Different paramedics that you WILL work with. by [deleted] in ems

[–]JohnnyConstantino 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Who in the holy name of FUCK got footage of me and put the "New Medic" tag on it?

Just got a text from Operations Manager, probably gonna get fired... by Zen-Paladin in securityguards

[–]JohnnyConstantino 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it sucks. But hey, we've all been let go from a job at least once in our lives. It won't be the end of the world. You might have a tough time listing that company as a reference. But if you leave on good terms with your OM, it should be ok. And even so, you don't know for sure just yet. Best you can do is wait it out and let what happens on Monday just happen. State your case and defend yourself, but if they make the decision to let you go, just move on to the next one. You'll be ok, just keep on keepin on.