Whole blood is here. Why?
All in Education
What do we do now as clinicians? How is the end of Roe v. Wade going to impact us?
How can EMS education take these positives, these negatives, and the pandemic and mold it into a brand-new form of EMS education? An education system where we can feel somewhat prepared for the possibilities that we are coming into? EMS education owes it to the future paramedics and EMTs to teach us these skills AND how to mentally prepare ourselves.
Your first call. A cardiac arrest. In front of you. Now what?
Ever feel like you won’t get it? Feel like things are moving too fast? Ever been new at something?
Welcome to Rookieworld.
We’ve all been in those classes where we phone it in. Someone is going to stand in front of the class, power point slides glowing behind them, and preach about a topic we haven’t heard about since our initial classes. The slides will be lightly animated, maybe there will be a video clip that highlights the point of the lecture (like salt makes sugar taste a little sweeter but in a weird way), and the bullet points will be read out word for word. You don’t even have to make the effort to read. Someone in the back of the room is balancing a checkbook, the co-worker who has been there for 20+ years is knitting a baby blanket, the rest are on their phones in a group chat trying to figure out where to go and get a drink at lunch. The class is required, and man does it feel that way.