Beautifulsikh

I'm at work too! It's an easy day so far. Do you hope to continue an easy day, or do you like when something catastrophic happens?

I totally get it. I'm a firefighter/paramedic, so I'm torn between wanting people to be okay and wanting the chance to use my skills. Add to that, I think I'm pretty decent at my job and would want a person like me to show up in an emergency, so I doubly want the shit to hit the fan while I'm working.

I'm gonna share this with my union, hopefully we can get most of us to sign. Can you give some insight into what things were made more difficult by throttled service? What comes to mind for me are things like wind direction, air quality, or even sending information between units. But I do structural firefighting, so I have no idea what wildland firefighting is like. Thanks for what you do, and for taking a bad thing and turning it into action so it doesn't happen again!

Why is it that so many nurses DON'T use gloves when taking vials/starting IVs, etc? I'm a firefighter and I NEVER even touch ems equipment without gloves, let alone a patient. I've been doing rounds at an ED as part of my paramedic training and often the nurse who is guiding and helping me with starting lines do not wear gloves. I've seen them touch rashes of unknown origin bare handed and so many other things. Freaks me out. And I'm around many fewer patients on a shift than nurses are.