Finally. The time has come for me to take my skills test. It was hyped up, and once I got there I had no problem acing all the stations. I started out with the patient assessment for a trauma patient. After I completed the station I was told by my instructor, that if I did what I just did for every other station there will be no possible reason for you to fail anything. This is the same instructor that bashed me and was very hard on me in class, so it felt good to hear that from him. Honestly after trauma it was all a cake walk. I did medical with a breeze, then came bleeding control, then AED and BVM, after that I did the KED. At this point I was done and just waiting to hear what I had gotten on all my stations. Once I found out that I passed, I just got really excited. A lot was riding on this test today, because if I had not passed I would have to repeat the entire 3 month EMT class. My teacher that had given me the trauma assessment came back to me after all was said and done, and asked me to identify what was wrong with the patient. It was obvious he was in shock, because he had no radial and pedal pulse.
This is when my teacher told me that I nailed every single part of the assessment and that I had a very good flow to how I went about it. He then went on about how he was similar to me when he was a new EMT and he had actually gotten attacked by several people and was in a life threatening situation. I guess he was hard on me, because he didn't want to see the same thing happen to me. Now when I look back on how he taught me, I'm glad he did what he did. Not only did he push me, but he's saving me from a situation that he had to go through. Well overall I learned about controlling my ego, and settling down when it comes to certain situations.
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