Medical. : Intro/Qualifications/Goals

I was going to say what you guys were thinking but held off. It's kinda weird that a corpsman would be doing OJT in a non "combat" type of job. Not like there is follow on training similar to 91c. Does FT. Sam still do LPN? Years ago there was 91B then 91C for LPN.

F.M.
 
TLDR20 said:
I had one of them tell me she could drop a chest tube. Um yeah ok, step aside private....
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I had one at WRNMMC while I was out there say that it's harder to be an LPN than an 18D, and that they get more useable med creds than an 18D...
the other 18Ds in the room and I just agreed and later asked him how he could even say such a thing... his response... "when I get out of the Army, I can walk into a high paying job as an LPN..." our responses... "What? changing bedpans and sheets?"
 
x SF med said:
I had one at WRNMMC while I was out there say that it's harder to be an LPN than an 18D, and that they get more useable med creds than an 18D...
the other 18Ds in the room and I just agreed and later asked him how he could even say such a thing... his response... "when I get out of the Army, I can walk into a high paying job as an LPN..." our responses... "What? changing bedpans and sheets?"
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Cause while I have a few friends that are L.P.N.'s, both of those girls work in nursing homes pushing med carts, not a high volume shock trauma E.D. Most places will not hire L.P.N.'s and they tell them to follow up with R.N. I do not take away respect from my friend Adde and Polina cause they do a hard job but more qual'd than a 18D or a paramedic for that matter...not.

F.M.
 
Firemedic said:
I do not take away respect from my friend Adde and Polina cause they do a hard job but more qual'd than a 18D or a paramedic for that matter...not.

F.M.
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So true. One sister is a Medical assistant (taking PA classes as she can) and the other is an LPN. Trauma and peds, they asked me. Old people problems I asked Amy (the LPN), Pam is up on immunizations and office stuff. Even my out of date knowledge (I really need to get back into the game) I still knew more emergency stuff then both of them.

That does remind me, it's nurses week. I need to send Amy the link for free Cinnabons...lol
 
medicchick said:
So true. One sister is a Medical assistant (taking PA classes as she can) and the other is an LPN. Trauma and peds, they asked me. Old people problems I asked Amy (the LPN), Pam is up on immunizations and office stuff. Even my out of date knowledge (I really need to get back into the game) I still knew more emergency stuff then both of them.

That does remind me, it's nurses week. I need to send Amy the link for free Cinnabons...lol
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I just got back to the station from the local E.D. / next door (we are on hospital property) here. I wished the R.N.s there a good week and offered a few hot nurses my free TUBE test. Totally Uneccesary Breast Exam. None wished to partake in that...assholes.:wall::D:ROFLMAO:. All are good eggs. Most there were there for me when my life went to shit.

F.M.
 
TLDR20 said:
Yeah I'd kill myself if I joined to be a corpsman and ended up in an infant care center.
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lol I knew it was a possibility. Not what I wanted at all but tough shit, I'll take what I can from it. My class went through A school at the wrong time for grunt unit billets. Everyone ended up getting C school, hospital, or Med Bn (basically med supply now since the Navy is drawing back on logistics specialists and upped Corpsman billets, despite being overmanned).
 
TLDR20 said:
I had one of them tell me she could drop a chest tube. Um yeah ok, step aside private....
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Try hearing an IDMT tell you that he should (not asking mind you, telling me he SHOULD) be flying on our missions because he's equally as valuable as a PJ and moreso than a DUSTOFF medic.

Cause yea. Rage.
 
amlove21 said:
Try hearing an IDMT tell you that he should (not asking mind you, telling me he SHOULD) be flying on our missions because he's equally as valuable as a PJ and moreso than a DUSTOFF medic.

Cause yea. Rage.
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I could IDMT see doing DUSTOFF, but equal to a PJ?

Change in bold, don't know why the first sentence came up.
 
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amlove21 said:
Well- IDMT's are paramedics, right? I mean, PJ's are just combat paramedics that ride on helo's, right?

F*&#$ng. Eye. Roll.
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I think part of the problem (and should have stated in my post) is that they have IDMT flying on the HH-1's at Fairchild (and the missile support squadrons IIRC) , so these guys quickly assume they are doing your mission, which is crap, at the same time the guys/gals on the DUSTOFF missions do not have your qualifications.

Large number of people really don't understand the CSAR part of the package, look at the Nat Geo series, DUSTOFF Mission was emphasized, and the other aspects briefly mentioned. (more later)
 
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