Essay for Advance-EMT class
I sat in the ER watching the nurses and doctors work when shouts for help were heard from the hall. I jumped up with everyone else and ran to the hall. Down the hall a nurse was pushing a man in a wheelchair. His feet dragging, his head rolled back as he gasped for breath. In what felt like seconds the man was moved from the hall to the trauma room and on to the bed. I watch from the hall as the nurses hurry to start IVs and EKGs. I know I could be a part of that flurry of activity if I knew what do. I could have set up the 12-lead and understood what the ST elevation meant. I could have started that IV he needed for life saving fluids and medication.
As a basic the most valuable thing I've learned and the thing pounded into me by almost every medic I've worked with is that I know almost nothing. I am still a baby in EMS, and I want to grow up. I want to work with a medic and have them be confident that I can do all of the basic life support needs of our patient and then start supporting the medic. As an advance I can have IV access ready when the medic needs to push meds. I can be more aggressive with airway and breathing and actually keep someone alive when they can't themselves.
Becoming an advance would facilitate career growth, it would make me a more valuable asset to the company, better monetary gain, and start my education for my future career as a doctor. Tomorrow I’ll be able to help people in my community as an advance, in the future I’ll be able to my community and the world as a doctor. My Basic license has given me a solid foundation on the most important part of medicine. Basic life support and bedside manor. My advance will train me to understand basic cardiology and basic invasive procedures like IVs. Each level will build on the last and make me a better provider.
As a basic the most valuable thing I've learned and the thing pounded into me by almost every medic I've worked with is that I know almost nothing. I am still a baby in EMS, and I want to grow up. I want to work with a medic and have them be confident that I can do all of the basic life support needs of our patient and then start supporting the medic. As an advance I can have IV access ready when the medic needs to push meds. I can be more aggressive with airway and breathing and actually keep someone alive when they can't themselves.
Becoming an advance would facilitate career growth, it would make me a more valuable asset to the company, better monetary gain, and start my education for my future career as a doctor. Tomorrow I’ll be able to help people in my community as an advance, in the future I’ll be able to my community and the world as a doctor. My Basic license has given me a solid foundation on the most important part of medicine. Basic life support and bedside manor. My advance will train me to understand basic cardiology and basic invasive procedures like IVs. Each level will build on the last and make me a better provider.
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