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Ricky has a personal scanner. Ricky is very fond of his scanner. It follows him to the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room and even out on calls. The volume control must be malfunctioning because it seems to always be excessively loud, particularly when we are out in public.

Ricky is also very fond of his utility belt, which has so many items on it that I am always surpised that his pants are still up after he struggles to his feet from a crouching or sitting position. Ricky does love his mcdonalds.

Ricky LOVES to drive lights and sirens! It always fills my heart with a quiet joy to see his rictus grin and crazed bloodshot eyes in the rear-view mirror as I assure my patient that

I am a Canadian Paramedic and the respiratory system has always held special interest for me, I find airway management and ventilation to be deeply satisfying and I love irritating RT's with questions whenever they find themselves trapped in the back of my ambulance for a critical transfer escort. I have a lot of respect for the science and practice.

So, my question. Any former/current Paramedics who made the switch to RT, and how did you find it? Canada preferred but we are all colleagues so I'm happy to hear from anyone.

Thank you all for your time

I've had a few kind of strange experiences recently with people rolling up to the station. One lady called the station directly to ask if we could come look at her dad who was acting "funny". Another lady surprised me while I was sitting in my car in the parking lot and basically demanded that I have a look at her 50 year old son who was sitting in the passenger seat of her car. Once I left the door open to get some fresh air and two people just let themselves right in and asked if I could change a 20 dollar bill for them. Someone frantically banged on the door about 10 minutes ago and by the time I stilled my hammering heart and got to a window to see who the F it was, no one there. No

I'm doing construction on the side, getting very sick of being tired, dirty and sunburned all the time for a job that isn't related to my interests or career path. Boss doesn't understand that EMS is more important and this is just a side job etc etc. There is a patient transfer/first aid company hiring in my area and I'm tempted to apply. Wage is moderate, 21/hour. Unfortunately my service is seniority based so I still need a side job. Hesitant because I have seen EMS co-workers sneer and snicker when patient transfer service workers are near.

Tl;dr will my EMS co-workers bully me if I work patient transfer

Can't wait to see what CJ has to say

I've been lurking in this subreddit for a while and see terminology like EMR, EMT, EMT-B, and AEMT. I realize that Paramedic qualification is ALS and EMR is basically a driver/helper, but I'm curious to know what other BLS providers can do. I live and work BLS in Canada and the difference between provinces is surprising. Starting IV's and giving (a small list of) drugs IV is pretty much the standard in my province, but 3 and 12 leads are considered an ALS skill. There are other provinces that have longer BLS training programs and can interpret 12 leads but have fewer options for drugs.

In my province we can give: Narcan IM/IV/SC D10W IV Glucagon IM TXA IV Nitroglycerin SL Epi IM Gravol