I am an EMT-B now!

1 Step Closer!

Check it out! I'm one step closer now to becoming a certified EMT-Basic!

July 24th 2011 I will be a state and nationally certified EMT-Basic!

Yay!

Pshhh Look at me and my bad sefl!

S= Satisfactory = PASSED! =) These classes were either a pass or a fail grade.
A= I bust my ass all semester to earn that A!

WooooooHoooooooo!

EMT Lab Class 2011

Here are a few of my new friends I made this semester! I've met some great people in these past few months!

Best of luck on finals and National Registry!

Please pray for us

I have so much on my mind right now, so much that I cannot focus on doing my homework so I need to put these thoughts somewhere, whether someone reads them or not.

I’m incredibly stressed out about class tonight. I had major stage fright while practicing EMT skills with my classmates. We don’t normally practice in front of the whole class, we usually break up into smaller groups with which we have, I think its safe to call, “comfort zones,” girls with the girls and guys with the guys. Tonight our class was smaller due to some missing classmates so for those of us who were attending, we were all one large group.

I was so nervous, I forgot the simplest things, things I can usually do in my “comfort zone” with no problem. Everyone in my class is super awesome and I feel comfortable with all of them its just tonight was a bit different with all eyes on me.

Aaron made a good point to me tonight though, when I came home I told him about how bad I choked in class and he said “You’re going to be put on the spot in real life” basically get used to it. He is so right!

I have 4 weeks left of class and then I take the big kahuna, National Registry Exam, which includes the written exam (which I’m honestly not worried about) and the skills testing. As we get closer I get more and more nervous!

I’ve had my good confident days and I’ve had my stressful unconfident days, today was one of those. When I don’t perform well in class it affects me for days after and I’m hard on myself.

Please pray for my classmates and myself that we will all make it through this.

EMT-Basic Skills Training

This "patient" is being strapped to a backboard. We practiced doing this a lot!

We even had two vehicles that we worked on getting "patients" out of! Extrication is harder than it looks!

CPR is something I think most if not all of us are now completely comfortable with. We have practiced this a respectable million times now! :)

Managing two patients or more at once can be a challenge!

Here you see students holding C-spine, which means they are immobilizing the patient's neck and the other students are supporting the rest of the body as they position the patient on a back board.

I am kicking myself if the butt now for not bringing my camera to class, but the pictures above are other students (not of my school) practicing similar skills that we practiced all day yesterday. There was supposed to be someone from the college taking pictures, but I don't think they were there.

April 16th 2011 we will be practicing MCI's (Mass Casualty Incidents) which we will all be together again for a full day practicing! That one should be interesting!

Assisted Delivery- OB Care

This is the exact manikin we used in class last night! Learning how to ASSIST in delivering a child is so cool! I don't know why, but this was the part of the class I have been looking forward to the most! It was awesome!

I put emphasis on how as EMT's we ASSIST in delivery, we didn't "deliver" the baby...mom did that work!

Here's a close up and of the inside! The red circular thing that is hooked to the baby by the umbilical cord is the placenta which attaches to the inside on the uterine wall.

Stages of Delivery:
1. contractions to complete dilation of the cervix to 10 cm.
2. complete dilation to complete delivery of the child.
3. complete delivery of the child to complete delivery of the placenta.