Brush Up On EMS with Bob

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~ Leo Buscaglia                       Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/caring.html   Imagine with me for a moment you are in the back of the ambulance taking a patient to the hospital. This patient you are transporting should be an easy transport. However, as the transport continues they become nauseous. To be placed in the semi-fowlers position and ride backwards is not a normal position that your patient travels when going down the road. To make things worse, you’re ...

Strategies and Tips to Pass the National Registry EMT Written Exam

Being the Bob Ross of your own patient assessment   “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”        ~Maya Angelou We all remember spending those afternoon lunch hours as either kids or adults being sat down in front of the TV to watch the patron saint of nap time, Bob Ross. Bob Ross created for himself a great persona. He knew the basic skills of painting and he adapted the skills to meet his personality. Bob was great as to use his own sayings to show you what he really meant. One of those that sticks in my Mind is his famous saying when he was cleaning a paint brush. “Beat the devil out of it”, he would say. Not many painters might say that, but that was Bob Ross’s own saying that he developed. When it comes to EMS we have our own art form. The art form that I am referring to is patient assessment. Patient assessment is at the very least an...