Paramedic, good career?

[Russky2Participant 3086]

Grumpy wrote:

Russky2 wrote:

Good point. Well it doesn’t cause well initially nurses were men anyway. Before women took over that is.

IIRC
You are currently in the GTA, correct?
If you decide to get into the nursing/paramedic/medical field you have an excellent chance at snagging “isolated” postings. Just pull in and maintain good grades/results, and let it be known you are willing to do duty in those areas. That opens up the on and off shore oil rigs, shipboard postings, and remote isolated postings.
-Edit-
That is inclusive of both national and international jobs.

I’m about 100 km from GTA in in a city of Kitchener.

MGTOW AKBAR

[ShineParticipant 1696]

Russky2 wrote:

Alright fck it I just applied for nursing. No kidding!

Personally I would prefer to be a paramedic. Nursing to me would be working with too many people in the one place at the one time. That being said, I agree with Morlock that the USA would be a tough place for Emergency Services., and it may be bad enough that I would accept the working conditions of nursing as a career.

You could always apply for both and see if you are offered a position in either. Or start off in one field and move over to another once you have some experience.

"Society is to blame" Denton

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

The Paramedics around here do have a nice set-up .. since we have several teaching hospitals and one of them owns the entire ambulance service fleet for the whole part of the state except for a few communities with EMT’s. The first responders usually always arrive with them .. or ahead of the Paramedics .. the first responders are actually paged out first before ambulance. They can be EMT’s or Fire. They usually have like two Paramedics and about five firemen helping .. it usually happens here this way if roads are open .. but not always like during storms where Paramedic could conceivably arrive slightly ahead of First Responders .. but responders are always paged out since they are local and usually get there ahead .. like ten minutes or more because of long distances here.

They also have all their Stryker Power Cots which operate on hydraulics and battery power. Yet, in your career you will have times when brute strength is required such as crawling around overturned vehicle in ditch .. or worse. Again, around here the firemen do much to help. And .. stairways will require strength and people, as a rule are so heavy these days .. even with cots designed to roll down the steps .. it’s not necessarily easy.

People can weigh hundreds …. hundreds of pounds .. thus the policy of always sending first responder to every call where I live. I’ve helped lift in the past and I do believe I might have a small left side hernia .. not that this caused it .. but it sure didn’t help. Getting one of them down a curved stairway or up a muddy embankment feels like a days work .. and can be dangerous. If the vehicle is hundreds of feet down the bank ..the firemen might get them up .. but you still need to go down and be subjected to the entire mess.

So. it’s not just driving though intersections with siren and being allowed to drive wrong way through traffic .. that part will get old after awhile. We’ve also had ambulance accidents where workers have been injured. You know what drivers are like and almost everything near a highway can be deadly .. especially standing or walking. The flashing lights won’t always keep you from danger.

So it depends on your set-up of local services .. policies and what equipment provided. Not an easy decision .. but I’d hazard to guess you’d know how you feel about things after the first few training classes .. with a good instructor .. no law says you can’t stay in it or switch and tweak your path to different training if it doesn’t suit you.

The ambulance services here have occasionally offered ride along programs, certain times of year, for those interested but not sure .. usually before semester begins .. check on that .. just stop by the fire station or ambulance service headquarters. Only way to tell if you like it is to ride along and see .. or at least talk to one. They are nice people.

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22507]

Awakened wrote:

Personally, If I desired to work with people needing medical care, I would try and become a nurse or x-ray tech.

At least in the states, there are Many jobs, more types of jobs in different settings, and the pay is MUCH HIGHER.

Yeah xray tech or radiology tech would be good. Something where you dont have to use your body to touch and move the patients.
The nurses often hurt themselves bad when they have to manipulate fat/obese patients. Like permanent shoulder and/or back damage.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[Lone Wolf83Participant 825]

Russky2 wrote:

Sorry, I don’t want to offend any male nurses. But is that the case at all?

I’m a registered nurse and that is not the case at all unless you are openly flamboyant. The great thing about nursing is that it is such a broad field with limitless options. Once you get tired of an area of nursing, you can go ahead and switch to another field that may be of your interest. There is med surg, or, er, icu, pediatric, hospice, dialysis etc. Then once you have accumulated about one year of experience, you can also try travel nursing where you can take assignments in different locations and yet still get paid more than average.

I already knew when I was in nursing school that I didn’t want to be on the floor with a bunch of women. So I started looking into other fields of nursing and got into dialysis nursing. Basically I’m independent in doing treatments for patients with renal failure. I stay in the room with them, hook them up to a machine that acts like an artificial kidney to clean their blood and take out fluids, monitor them for a good 3 to 4 hours and then move onto the next one. It’s a specialized field that pays more than floor nursing and you get to know your patients very well if they are in the hospital routinely. The drawbacks of this is you have to be on call once a week or so, so sometimes you don’t even know when you get to go home. Other nurses on the floor will be jealous that you have an ‘easy’ job compared to them dealing with 6 to 8 patients lol. And if they sense that you are single, they will not give a f~~~ and try to seduce you.

If you have any questions regarding dialysis nursing, hit me up and I’ll try to answer them as best as I can.

Edit: I also don’t deal with ass wiping or maneuvering patients. I may help the primary nurse with this though for dialysis purposes. I move a couple of machines with rollers around, that’s about it regarding physical work (easy to move for a guy).

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[Silver FoxParticipant 2766]

My brother is a Paramedic. I went through the same school with him, but I opted for a different career in the end. I still hear lots of stories from my brother. I was also an EMT Basic myself for four years and worked in the field alongside him.

You have to really be enthusiastic about the job. It will wear you down after a while. I can’t think of any EMTs or Medics that haven’t admitted this. Usually they stick with it because they like the career so much even with all of the fatigue it puts on you, mentally and physically.

That said, there is a high rate of burnout. Many people do it for a while and then quit because they reached their limit of exhaustion, usually mental exhaustion. I’ve seen this even in my brother and he voluntarily went to get some counseling and therapy after seeing a few too many cases of human suffering. The tipping point for my brother was seeing a young boy crushed to death in an ATV rollover accident and having to inform the boy’s frantic parents that their son was dead.

My brother is still in this career because he was able to find the right mixture of spirituality, family support, and personal growth that kept him stable, mentally.

If you are unable to find this kind of stability, it’s not a good career choice.

"Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife." --Apostle Paul

[HitmanParticipant]

male nurses are usually very cool guys..
not homo’s..
you need a lot of patience to deal w the setting.
a lot of women and doctors,
male and female.
you make some bank but you will earn it.
good luck bro.
get the R.N. and look in to possible opportunitys..
cruise ships
old rich bastards etc…

you can’t go wrong w a medical career.

[Russky2Participant 3086]

Hey guys thanks so much to all of you. I’ve got most of my questions answered! Especially to Silver Fox, as you put my mind at easy. Well if I do get accepted then I’d be going to a 2 year program at a local college starting in January. Thought about waiting for another year and go in fall but why wait?

As far as cleaning poop that is a big negative for me, but ohh well you get used to it after awhile?

MGTOW AKBAR

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

My co-worker worked as an EMT on an ambulance. He said more than half his calls are lonely seniors who really don’t need medical care but they’re bored and want company lol. He also has some gnarly stories about car wrecks, body parts no longer connected and things of that nature.

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