[kye994]

[Goin2work]

Same goes for me. I, unlike KYE, will be present for the start of class, beginning Monday with CPR. You guys/gals should have Millions of Questions for us in your labs and in class for the I/C's. There is NO such thing as a Dumb or Stupid Question, and I will not like any of those words being muttered out. You don't know everything in EMS, KYE does not know everything in EMS, I do not know everything in EMS, nobody knows everything in EMS. But trust me, if there is something we don't know, granted, 1 of us WILL get you an answer quickly.
I look forward to working with ALL of you for the next 9 Months, and I will make myself available to you before/during and after all labs. READ! READ! READ! READ! Your textbook. Don't worry about protocols until you have to. Any questions, feel free to PM me on here ANYTIME. And for those that know me that may be in the class, you have my number im sure, USE IT. Im here for you, that's why they pay us... Good Luck and RELAX!!

[emsteach124]

Goin2work....couldn't have said it better if I tried...

So often as I'm winding up class at 10pm, students start packing their stuff while I'm still talking.....to which I simply keep talking...don't be in such a rush to leave.

Learn from us, that's what we're there for. Stay there, pick our brains, ask the question you might not have wanted to ask in front of 30 people...again I'll say that nothing makes it more worthwhile then to see it "click" in the students mind when they "get it".

I always tell my students that it's my responsbility to them to give them all the info and guidance they need to pass this class and to give them the foundation to hit the streets w/ a little knowledge. I also tell them that I refuse to allow anyone to skim through a class, because someday it could be my family member they're called to assist. Well, sure enough.....

Three weeks ago my father was in an MVA, one block from his home. His traffic light turned green coming out of a side street, and a MSBA bus blew the red light and caught his car along the nose. Had his reaction time been a second slower, he'd have been broadsided on the drivers door. Ends up he's shaken up but ok. So my department is called in, and coming off the ambulance are 2 old students of mine, and a 3rd student that I had in a few classes.

Bottom line is....each student needs to take the approach that someday they will be working on someone they know...

[Blue Mule Trucking]

Just reading the past couple threads about the EMS class has kind of got me thinking of doing it next year.