And just like that....

...its July, and I just finished Mod 3.


To say that life has been busy is somewhat of an understatement. I throttled back the blog a hair just because its extremely difficult to understand what is important to a paramedic student while you are in the thick of it, only in retrospect, once you have surmounted an obstacle do you even grasp what was necessary to achieve it.

The big hurdle that I'm still climbing is IV therapy. Most of my education regarding that has come from the RNs at my clinical site. I started my ED time with exactly 2 live human sticks.

Right now I'm averaging slightly less that 50% success rate with IVs, but I am starting to understand what I am suppose to be doing more, and I learn something new with every stick.

It would have been nice to get some extra time from school with IV therapy, we have spent copious amounts of time on Patient Assessments and ET tubes, but whatever.

Its my opinion that the program that I am definitely has a weak link regarding the didactic stuff. Most of the training is done by "adjunct instructors" some of which are more helpful than others. There is a huge problem with consistency in message though. Often we are given conflicting information depending on who we are talking to, and the some of the instructors teach us to "pass the test" while others are teaching us to be good paramedics. Its somewhat annoying.


So we are beginning  Cardiology next week...good times.