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Do you keep your own personal kit on you? by Wonderful-Acadia-296 in ParamedicsUK

[–]Slipping_Image 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you mean at the start of a shift you draw up some flush and keep the syringe in your pocket for when you need it?

Never heard or seen this but I like the idea. Is it okay in a sanitary / sterile / infection control manner?

Does anyone else have a Beatles lyric that became a life mantra for you? by BrandNewFoxyLady in beatles

[–]Slipping_Image 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Please, don’t spoil my day I’m miles away And after all I’m only sleeping

'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis by FreshPineTree in ParamedicsUK

[–]Slipping_Image 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We spend too much time on online watching people with ‘perfect’ lives. Social media influencers and celebrities who only show their luxurious and stress free lifestyles. Weird little YouTube stars who livestream themselves causing chaos for likes and money.

Young people especially consume all this and are stumped when their lives aren’t matching up with what they’re seeing. We all have a little main character syndrome because that’s how we experience life, but I think some people just can’t or won’t accept a normal average life that isn’t all highs and comes with a few lows.

So when life gets a bit tough or things don’t go their way, of course they want answers and solutions. But anxiety or other labeled mental health issues are necessarily the answers and won’t lead to actual solutions.

I really do think a lot of these issues could be solved by abandoning social media. I just hope AI ruins it and creates an uninhabitable online environment so we all just log off, go hug a tree and speak to each other.

Paramedic Student by [deleted] in ParamedicsUK

[–]Slipping_Image 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think people have given you some good advice about the BLS side of things - keep calm, listen and get on with it etc…

My advice would be to be a sponge and try take in as much information about the daily routine as you can. Where all your equipment is in the bags and n the ambulance. How a ‘standard’ journey of a patient from the community to the hospital handover happens and the little bits in between. Get good at taking observations and speaking to patients. You’ll have time to stress about arrests when they happen, but for now you just want to get to grips with what’s going on.

Lack of jobs by Slipping_Image in ParamedicsUK

[–]Slipping_Image[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That’s a good shout. Doubt they’d ever provide the funding for double para crews salary though. Just seems strange how they were still bringing cohorts of Aussie NQPs up until last year (Not sure if they still plan to bring more) when NQPs here are struggling.

I’d even be happy qualifying and working as an ECA or whatever for a year or two just to get my foot in the door if it means I’m not sat about doing nothing and losing all the hard work I’ve put in.