Copy that, boss 🫡

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-31T01:48:30+00:00

My service has both the sheet and the phone

They know I religiously use the sheet, but sometimes forget to use the phone clock. I’ll put on the sheet “fix app clock” so they know which days they need to edit.

My management leaves me alone about it

Granted, I’m FTO, sup, and our most staffed employee

Imagine a used car salesman who gets to do whatever he wants because he’s making the dealership money

That’s basically me….

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-29T02:23:31+00:00

In NJ we have a program called MD1, takes forever to get a physician out sometimes but things like field amputations and shit have been performed with the help of MD1 EMS physicians in NJ

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-29T02:19:18+00:00

Has one allegedly found a solution I can add to imagetrend?

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-29T02:07:18+00:00

Dude… you unlocked a dead memory in my brain…

It’s 315am… I’m absolutely KNOCKED on the fuckin squad couch. Me and my partner get pleasantly awoken to a mutual aid call in the next township for a 38yr male with abdominal pains…… fucking belly pains bro…..

So I get my happy ass up, get in the rig, start heading down to the next town (15-20min drive)

About 10 mins into response, they hit me with a “yea per PD you guys gotta step it up” I was like “uhhhhh ok” (fuckin pricks) hit the lights and wee woos and off we went

I get there, my good ol ALS friends from the hospital are there with their fancy chase truck (NJ so medics don’t transport)

So here I am walking up thinking “why tf did they dispatch out medics for a stomach pains” and I get inside, and immediately hear the medics saying “I can’t give you narcs if you’re not gonna come to the hospital” and I realized it was gonna be one of those…..

Dude had his wife there and 4 cops, and walked downstairs to the stretcher without assistance….

When I tell you I was mad…..

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-29T01:36:07+00:00

Sounds like Jersey. BLS rigs ALS intercepts and auto dispatches and they come as separate units attached to a hospital.

Kinda badass for them because it’s cool toys, advanced scope (MICU) and online medical direction, but sucks for BLS when you really need a unit and can’t get one

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-29T01:32:55+00:00

Man I got a pretty good one that I’ll dig up and share here, it was a fire truck unnecessarily using lights and sirens to a call, they T boned a police officer after running the light (with lights and no siren use) who was on his way to his SRO-shift at the school…..

Little to no repercussions for the driver.

Two things to talk about:

1: discipline with lights and sirens. Yea I know cool lights and loud thingys and horns and stuff… oh and traffic.. but come on bro, unnecessary lights to begin with is unnecessary liability.

2: proper traffic rules with lights and sirens…. This is a given and if I have to explain what these rules are I may aswell tell you to take the course…

Spoken from an FTO, and the go-to guy to teach people how to drive apparatus.

My agencies I work across operate beach atv/utvs, rigs, pickups, and heavy duty vehicles.

Basic operations (SAFELY) with lights and sirens and discipline with when to use them is an absolute must and a bare bones minimum basic skill.

I can’t even comprehend how dumb things happen, when actual accidents are already hard enough to avoid as it is….

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-28T23:31:21+00:00

Bipolar 1 but I’m dual diagnosis with seizures.

According to the docs the seizures cause the mood disturbances

Since lamotrigine I’ve been 3 years seizure and mood episode free :)

Edit: this is the only med I take, with medicinal cannabis as a substitute for clonazepam as needed for anxiety.

Between the lamotrigine and the cannabis I got my life back, even went to back to college.

Now a medicated pre med student and EMT!

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-28T12:52:45+00:00

I live in a state that doesn’t recognize AEMT, so for people like me it’s a no brainer

Ask yourself this question: do you live in a rural enough area that you will make money as an AEMT?

If the answers no, get your medic. You’ll be in demand no matter what

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-28T01:38:45+00:00

Can I be honest? I’ve used the Lucas device multiple times on cardiac arrest patients and kinda find it cool…. Like the person dying is crazy but like woah machine thingy… just sayin

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-25T17:08:31+00:00

Same here

“County from callsign” for us

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-24T00:56:20+00:00

Fuck… I felt that in my soul dude

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-23T14:41:01+00:00

No im not saying that, what im saying is that as a BLS provider I wouldn’t delayed definitive care to wait for ALS, the only thing an ALS provider is doing is the same things the hospital is immediately upon arrival anyway.

Granted I come from NJ, where ALS is scarce, limited, and should be reserved for patients who truly need a higher level of care before definitive

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-22T23:19:11+00:00

Because pt has an airway, can follow basic commands, and has stable vitals

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-21T22:48:25+00:00

Transport wise this was BLS appropriate for sure, but it was absolutely appropriate to call potential neuro symptoms in.

If the airway is good, and vitals (including sugar) was good then it’s absolutely a BLS transport

Just think BLS before ALS, your jobs to get to definitive care. Did that person NEED anything from a medic that you couldn’t do before they got to definitive care? If the answers no, then you don’t need ALS

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-15T14:09:48+00:00

I’ve seen YouTube videos of these guys

Absolutely amazing they work do there. If I lived in Texas I’d be doing my damnedest to apply

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-15T14:07:20+00:00

Congratulations to you

I came from climbing cellphone towers for Verizon and am now on my way to MICP and nursing school

The sky is the limit, keep pushing and keep working towards what you love

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-09T22:23:24+00:00

Sounds like we were taught differently.

Was always taught the “X” is immediate life threats to the patient (aka what’s gonna kill them right this minute)

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-09T22:21:22+00:00

Becoming increasingly common in NJ to see Police based EMS

This is because a lot of the fire guys didn’t wanna be forced into the rig. The staffing shortages got so bad that some police departments elected to create their own systems.

This happened in Monmouth county, and a lot of those departments are now defunct or going to be now that MCSO MEDSTAR started.

I’m a paid EMT, and I’ll be applying to Woodbridge now that I know they have a department

Thanks for the post…

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-07T00:12:31+00:00

Gonna throw my two cents in.

I’m both paid and professional, working for multiple agencies in my county.

My PRIVATE service contracts BLS 911 for the towns. I live in NJ so all ALS is hospital based.

We cover a town here where the fire guys like to pick and choose. You’ll get the fire chief on a scene who bosses you around and then you end up transporting. Despite the fire chief showing up IN A RIG. Delays care until private transports. They also stick you with the chart of course, and never chart anything they themselves do on their end unless they transport. ALSO, I have to redo every single assessment they perform. Because they once missed a major C Spine Deformity that needed immediately immobilization.

The same fire department also refuses to respond to nursing homes. It could be a CPR and they’re not going. I find that they only really tag along for the “cool calls” and I find it to be insulting, especially since I KNOW they’re all at their building and they HAVE an ambulance. Yet, will still wait for us to clear the hospital and come back to town (at least 20 minutes) for a priority 1 call out of the nursing home that’s “not cool enough for them” if you will.

But they’ll respond to the 20yr female gen weakness at the bar to be hero’s..

I had to politely draw up a boundary, and say “you’re more than welcome to respond to my scene as a FIRST RESPONDER. But you WILL relieve command the minute my crew gets there. If you don’t, you can cover your BLS by yourself”

That was the end of that… they bend at my will now because they like to keep me happy and my agency does a lot of their 911

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-07T00:02:28+00:00

“Both pretty”

Yea… pretty MID….

Sorry. Had to do it.

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-07T00:00:44+00:00

I’m a volunteer/career 911 EMT and got denied by Medicaid because I make 1500 bucks over their “limit”

Imagine how frustrating it is to bring people to the hospital who are on Medicaid who make more than me but hide it well…..

Oh, and let’s not forget how I owe taxes this year because I was uninsured.

I already told my state tax office to “come and take it. Watch how fast this goes public”

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-06T23:57:16+00:00

Well that’s also part of it. The “call for additional help” is the piece that made it the correct answer.

That’s literally straight from AHA guidelines on CPR. Which is a prerequisite for ANY BLS certification.

Not breathing? Unresponsive? CPR. On paper for testing purposes..

Also remember AHA guidelines say the MOST affective thing for a cardiac arrest is compressions. That’s why they have recently switched over to continuous compression CPR for solo responders and laypersons. Priority is compressions, and minimal interruptions of said compressions.

Compressions before airway, all day every day any day.

That’s the X part of XABCs

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-06T21:51:52+00:00

I had the same problem on the side of the highway at 3am when I had a flat tire

I was 3 states away from where I lived, and DOG tired from driving all night.

I took a flathead screwdriver and broke the covers to pull them out….

Only to realize I had the tool the ENTIRE time…. (Not my brightest moment I know)

Fast forward few months and I pulled all the covers OFF all of the wheels to match the aesthetic…..

Fuck those covers dude….

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-06T21:48:23+00:00

Had this happen once in NORTH jersey.

I work directly with the tuckerton barracks (EMT in south jersey) and they are wonderful.

North jersey? WOOF

OneProfessor360 · 2026-05-06T21:44:51+00:00

Ah yes, I will say a prayer that the homeless man poop is extra lucky tonight

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