ups and downs during work
There are some shifts where you can do no wrong and everyone is better for it. To quote line.
'there are time when my hands move with a skill and speed which is not my own'
then there are shifts where you should really call in sick as the general public would be better of that way, well almost you can do everything and still have a negative result.
These are both days you can Identify and live with.
Then there are days when leak proof seals will, universal fit joints won't and the unbreakable does.
then again your fluid skill and practice can be thrown off by the inclusion of another professional. They arrive first they work in a way that for you and your partner is like working with someone to complete a delicate maneuver in a foreign language.
But then it gets better you learn this new language and things need done and we get them done. The job starts to get better. Things start to go wrong with the pt again. We worked at it they improve slightly, then go down again. We finally managed to get into the ambulance. Down turn again but we were working as a team. But downward spiral of the patient continued. The three of us left in the ambulance we warned the hospital we were coming, 10 mins later we arrived. Everyone worked as a team the hospital the crew and additional crew helped. Not a good day
The final job of the shift lets break into a house to find a body then break the news to the relative.
Anyone who has not read 'Bringing out the dead' by Joe Connelly and seen the film, do not even contemplate becoming a Paramedic without doing so. It is an essential survival manual
'there are time when my hands move with a skill and speed which is not my own'
then there are shifts where you should really call in sick as the general public would be better of that way, well almost you can do everything and still have a negative result.
These are both days you can Identify and live with.
Then there are days when leak proof seals will, universal fit joints won't and the unbreakable does.
then again your fluid skill and practice can be thrown off by the inclusion of another professional. They arrive first they work in a way that for you and your partner is like working with someone to complete a delicate maneuver in a foreign language.
But then it gets better you learn this new language and things need done and we get them done. The job starts to get better. Things start to go wrong with the pt again. We worked at it they improve slightly, then go down again. We finally managed to get into the ambulance. Down turn again but we were working as a team. But downward spiral of the patient continued. The three of us left in the ambulance we warned the hospital we were coming, 10 mins later we arrived. Everyone worked as a team the hospital the crew and additional crew helped. Not a good day
The final job of the shift lets break into a house to find a body then break the news to the relative.
Anyone who has not read 'Bringing out the dead' by Joe Connelly and seen the film, do not even contemplate becoming a Paramedic without doing so. It is an essential survival manual
posted by Druss at 12:28
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