Deadly Oversights: 48 Critical Errors First Responders Urge EMTs and Civilians to Avoid
OR when they give 8mg of narcan to a alert and breathing patient. I don’t care if he is high, as long as he is breathing. Since I am riding with him, I rather he be chill for the duration of transport.
New medics sometimes adopt the burnout attitude very early on, perhaps in an effort to fit in — especially when their first partner is burnt out/ a call dodger. It really does them a disservice, as far as how other medics see them, as well as allowing themselves to prematurely get stuck in a mental rut.
Attitude. The level of entitlement among brand new medics is insane.
Don’t let success defeat you. Be proud of your accomplishments but don’t let it turn into arrogance and vanity. I see this go two ways a lot in new medics. Some get complacent and lazy really easily. Make sure you’re doing recaps with your notes from school/AEMCA prep. Ask questions. You’re green and you will be for a couple years, preceptorship was just the tip of the iceberg. On the flip side I see cockiness and pride a lot too. You can be a super-intelligent savant in this field but if you think your s**t smells better than someone else’s no one is going to want to work with you. Humbleness and humility will be two traits that will carry you throughout your career even years down the line.
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