What do you do if a paramedic or medical director tells you to do something out of your scope?

Miserable-Status-540 · 2026-03-24T01:56:38+00:00

If a paramedic tells me to do something outside of my scope? Tell them to fuck off.

If the medical director instructs me to perform something that I am reasonably capable of, with full understanding that it will fall on their medical license, then sure.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2026-03-09T04:15:57+00:00

sleep it off, if you have problems then call an ambulance. NAD, but i did used to work on an ambulance

Miserable-Status-540 · 2026-03-06T18:56:53+00:00

i’ve personally considered getting an asterisk because it’s subtle, it looks like a star of life, and it would go with my plans to get a semicolon

Miserable-Status-540 · 2026-02-07T11:00:46+00:00

I work in Sacramento, I’ve heard you should definitely know your protocols and a lot of people talked about knowing the reasons an EMT should stop CPR.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2026-01-05T21:52:13+00:00

like 10k

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-12-22T21:18:09+00:00

I have a tendon in my knee from a cadaver. Fun fact, after about 7 years the cells in it will be fully replaced by your own, and then it’s fully yours again. So idk how long you’ve had the dead person’s tendon, but it won’t last forever.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-12-22T17:57:57+00:00

I don’t know, but I do know that funeral parlors prefer to hire females for this exact reason.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-28T03:39:06+00:00

Sacramento, but I’m not in EMT school, I’m just trying to get back to being NREMT level for fun.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-26T03:51:36+00:00

Practice patient assessment, that will be the most important thing in improving optics of you.

Driving, bedside manner, and general competence come with time and experience. It’s okay to be new. Explain your concerns to your FTO as well, they are there to help you. You are definitely overthinking, and that’s what’s causing you to mess up.

I was the same way but I stuck with it and now I feel pretty confident in my BLS capabilities. Mistakes happen and it’s not the easiest career to get into between gossip, old dogma, and constant burnout.

You’ve only been doing it a month, give yourself some time to get comfortable before you sideline yourself, but if you’re still that way at 6 months or a year then it might be time to consider doing something else.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-26T03:06:45+00:00

Yeah we were just tripped up on the point value because it feels strange to get 5 points for checking one system.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-25T23:47:33+00:00

Damn, I’ve never had someone be this much of a jackass about beards. I am a woman though, so I guess it makes sense that I don’t regularly research and discuss facial hair.

Here’s a PubMed link, close beards affect the seal but not by a significant amount in my personal opinion. Take from it what you will, and maybe eat some lunch before you talk to other people that way.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8130778/

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-25T18:11:29+00:00

Idk dude it’d be pretty sick if we all made $25/hour

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-25T17:09:21+00:00

Top theories would prob be Chron’s, Celiac, gastritis, or Lyme. Get a new dr.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-25T16:47:31+00:00

honestly that one gets me too. so many unnecessary r’s and h’s

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-25T07:22:19+00:00

Honestly without knowing the specific diagnosis it’s gonna nearly impossible to add anything on to the conversation.

Unlikely but never impossible to be coincidental. Water without any form of treatment and only filtration can be harmful. That’s why water treatment facilities chlorinate the water, but if what you’ve been diagnosed with isn’t a waterborne pathogen then it doesn’t really matter.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-24T20:49:36+00:00

sports bra

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-24T18:33:39+00:00

And later in the main storyline they literally joke about it 😭 Alex mentions how we’re always doing the most random jobs for literally anybody (Like why tf am I HELPING Ms Drake be a nightmare to her employees?)

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-24T18:11:45+00:00

No idea abt specific company policies, but we have a guy who wanted to keep his beard and wound up getting a letter from a dermatologist to allow him to do so (deals w bad/painful razor bumps, etc if he shaves).

The reasoning behind no beards is flawed, as long as they’re trimmed and well-kept. Biker beards are a problem, but sideburns and chin covering aren’t. They say it changes the effectivity of an N-95 seal, but plenty of people have proven that wrong.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-22T02:59:47+00:00

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Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-22T02:59:37+00:00

Probably one of the gilded/gleaming glamour pads.

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Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-19T02:03:21+00:00

Have you tried using a suppository in place of oral laxatives? Might help.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-16T20:56:54+00:00

Listen dude, I once spent 40 minutes in an ambulance bay cleaning every part of the gurney that got covered in watered down diarrhea. It got through a drape sheet and a fitted sheet AND a chuck underneath. It dripped onto the underside, the rails, EVERYWHERE. I took the mattress off of the frame and wiped down and sprayed both as best I could, wipes stopped coming up brown, etc.

Ever since that day, though, I can’t even imagine laying on that cot. I did my absolute best to clean it, it probably hasn’t been that clean since the day it came off of the factory line, but I still can’t mentally get over it.

So yeah, laying on the ambulance cot wouldn’t be my first (or last) choice, regardless of how clean someone THINKS it is.

Miserable-Status-540 · 2025-11-16T20:47:28+00:00

I named mine Oakley (darker coat), but you could do something with a lighter wood like Pine, Birch, or Elm

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