thanks for stopping by. How bout them sox managing to pull it off in the wee hours! hope they do well tonight!
Quote: LL -- When are you doing the ambulance stuff? last summer I took and passed the course so I am officially a certified EMT. Now I'm on call as a 3rd person on Monday nights if there is a call. We also have training meetings once a month that I attend. This will be my first weekend shift and it's only me on the schedule. Sounds like a HUGE deal to me!!! It also seems like the kind of thing they wouldn't let just anybody do so you must be doing great in your class/program! as I said I'm certified, passed the class a year ago...but I wouldn't put me on the schedule alone. I guess people just have too much confidence in me.
It DOES sound like a tremendous amount of responsibility! Have you spoken with anyone else in your program who's already done it? Any suggestions from them? I was told by another volunteer on the service that they (the experienced and higher trained) watch the schedule and try to be around when someone new is covering.
What exactly does it involve? if you live in my town and call 911 for any medical reason...dipatch will tone out our pager system and I will then hear your complaint, name and address. I then go get the ambulance, come to your house, do what I can for you, take you to the hospital, bring the ambulance back to the bay (must radio in to dipatch upon leaving and ariving at destinations) fill out paperwork and replace anything we used to help you. then home for the next call. What if a call comes in? What do you have to do? pray to god that someone else is listening and comes with me...else how am I going to take care of a patient on the way to the hospital.
Sage
just to get an idea I listened to the scanner last Saturday afternoon for a bit and don't ya know in the short time frame that I was listening there were 2 calls within minutes of eachother. Of course more than just the one person on the schedule responded (I believe 3 went to one call and 2 to the other) but ya never do know.
I stopped by the bay this morning after dropping son at school to talk to the director but he wasn't in yet.
suppose I can't let it get to me too much as after all I don't KNOW what's going to happen that day...I can let my mind race with all kinds of "what if" scenarios but I can't DO anything about it til the day comes and goes...I can't wait til Sunday morning.
