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Ive been on this forum and learned a lot from the wealth of knowledge our more experience members have. That being said, I'm looking for some advice: how do you stay up to date on new protocols and medicine in general? Just a small bit of background, I'm AD AF and have been a paramedic for about 1 1/2 years now. We recently had some new protocols for our service come out (within the last 3 months) and while they are straight forward for the most part, what I struggle with is my units lack of training. I mean, literally zero. And every time I've created and brought new Power Points or hands on training for anything it never ends up happening. Without making too many excuses, how do you all keep up? I try listening to PodCasts (EMCrit and SecondShift mostly) but having an extremely slow service of 1-2 calls in a 24 hour shift, I feel like I am lagging behind. I try to also spend at least 1-2 hours every shift looking at medicine related studies and refresh myself on things I'm uncomfortable with. And while I haven't killed anyone yet, I cant help but shake the feeling that the first cardiac arrest or adrenal crisis or pediatric drowning case I have is going to go terribly.
What do you all use? And if anyone has advice for a green medic, I'm all ears.
What do you all use? And if anyone has advice for a green medic, I'm all ears.