Volunteering as a EMT, can be a truly amazing and awarding experience. You are able to be around great people who share the same passion as you do. A volunteer fireman or EMT will work during the weekdays from 6pm to 6am the next day. They will work all major holidays as well as work 24 hour shifts depending on your department sometimes longer. It is a experience that is truly rewarding because you are able to help people and be there for them when they are down.
Even though the EMT's job is a basic one, that does not mean that we are not qualified to do what we do or that we do not do much. In the YouTube video called EMT Basic training. This shows the relationship between the EMT's and Paramedics. For this post I would like to just focus on the EMT aspect of the job. A EMT will do everything you see in this video except giving any sort of IVs.
We learn in our training how to assess a pt. as quickly as possible so we can help that pt. faster. Whether it be for a traumatic incident or a medical emergency, we are there to try to ease you pain and to try to make you feel better or at the very least more comfortable till we get to the hospital. A EMT will collect vitals, Splint, and help many people who have many different emergency's. A EMT does so much then that, it is truly hard to explain in a blog like this. On everything a EMT will do.
A EMT is the one who is usually first on the scene of any call. They are there and even if it is a ALS call which just means it is a call that medics would take. There are still things we can do before the medics get there to help you receive the care you need sooner.
A ambulance will typically carry between 2-4 people in it. You always want at least a driver and a lead. Though it is always better to have more then two, to help in a call. Also just because someone is a driver of a Ambulance that does not mean that they do not know what they are doing. Before that person was a driver they were either a fireman and EMT or even just a EMT or a paramedic. So the driver can still help out in calls as well because of there training.
Also a fun fact about EMS according to the National Regestry which EMTs fallow is that " EMS treats approximately 25-30 million patients per year with
annual expenditures of about $6.75 billion."
"EMS Fast Facts." NREMT -. National Regestry of Emergency Medical Technician, 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
I noticed as I was reading here that you are shifting in paragraph 1 from the first person (I, me experience) to "you" (as if you are speaking to each and every audience member). That doesn't always work. For example: since I am not an EMT, I don't have these experiences, and, thus, my reading of your text can become disjointed.
ReplyDeleteSee my notes from previous posts; you still have areas in here that I want you to work in through proofreading. The content, though, is quite interesting, and I definitely want to learn more!