Great news today - thought I would share with my PH mates :D
Discussion
Congrats and Bravo! Gonna write a book at any point? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Tea-Adventures...
Cheers again.
To answer some questions - haha, I have read the Blood, Sweat and Tea books - great fun and surprisingly accurate. However, I won't be writing anything anytime soon - books, blogs and the like are a fast ticket to dismissal basically...the Trusts hate it, which is fair enough.
30 grands worth of student loans debts - well, I'll leave it to you to decide if that's acceptable in modern Britain or not. I blame Nick Clegg for being a turncoat! However, even more galling is that the local Health Education body decided last year to start funding the courses, due to the shortage of Paras. So if I had waited a year, I would have had no debt....c'est la vie, or something. Ah well, at least I am ahead of the new incumbents I guess!
I get cars and ambo's with flashing blue lights by about mid-September. When we start, we are put on a four-week blue-light response driving course, which is 9 to 5, 5 days a week. That's a hell of a lot of driving training, but it's done with ex Police pursuit instructors, so they must deem it necessary that we have so much training. I guess it's a pretty important part of the process, and must be done right, to encompass all different people and driving abilities. Remember that some of the graduates are in their early 20's with very little driving experience, especially fast driving and vehicle dynamics. I'm not sure how I will get on as an ex-racer and track-day instructor
but I will go in with an open mind - every day is a school day, and I am sure I will learn a lot.
To answer some questions - haha, I have read the Blood, Sweat and Tea books - great fun and surprisingly accurate. However, I won't be writing anything anytime soon - books, blogs and the like are a fast ticket to dismissal basically...the Trusts hate it, which is fair enough.
30 grands worth of student loans debts - well, I'll leave it to you to decide if that's acceptable in modern Britain or not. I blame Nick Clegg for being a turncoat! However, even more galling is that the local Health Education body decided last year to start funding the courses, due to the shortage of Paras. So if I had waited a year, I would have had no debt....c'est la vie, or something. Ah well, at least I am ahead of the new incumbents I guess!
I get cars and ambo's with flashing blue lights by about mid-September. When we start, we are put on a four-week blue-light response driving course, which is 9 to 5, 5 days a week. That's a hell of a lot of driving training, but it's done with ex Police pursuit instructors, so they must deem it necessary that we have so much training. I guess it's a pretty important part of the process, and must be done right, to encompass all different people and driving abilities. Remember that some of the graduates are in their early 20's with very little driving experience, especially fast driving and vehicle dynamics. I'm not sure how I will get on as an ex-racer and track-day instructor
but I will go in with an open mind - every day is a school day, and I am sure I will learn a lot.Fantastic - well done.
The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
Slyjoe said:
Fantastic - well done.
The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
Because as I said, it wasn't funded at first, but now it is.The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
Basically the Trusts, the Heath Service and the professional bodies who represent and register Paramedic clinicians all decided some years ago, that frontline Paramedic clinicians should be trained to a much higher standard. There are lots of reasons for that, but essentially it was to vastly improve patient outcomes in the first essential minutes of them becoming sick / suffering trauma, by providing immediate care and support that previously was only available from Doctors in a hospital environment.
Great idea of course. Except that part of that decision involved creating the University degree entry route in order to do so, which replaced the old 12-week course or whatever it was. Then in the meantime, again for many reasons, a lot of the old school started leaving, so in the last couple of years, that's created a bit of a recruitment issue.
So then last year in response to that, the regional healthcare funding bodies realised that some concerted action was needed for recruitment, thus they started funding the course.
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Slyjoe said:
Fantastic - well done.
The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
Because as I said, it wasn't funded at first, but now it is.The cynic in me asks though, as you're doing such a useful job, why did you have to go into such a lot of debt to get there - I saw you write that this training is now funded. Such a shame on our government that you had to pay.
I hope the pay back on your part is outweighed by the job satisfaction.
Basically the Trusts, the Heath Service and the professional bodies who represent and register Paramedic clinicians all decided some years ago, that frontline Paramedic clinicians should be trained to a much higher standard. There are lots of reasons for that, but essentially it was to vastly improve patient outcomes in the first essential minutes of them becoming sick / suffering trauma, by providing immediate care and support that previously was only available from Doctors in a hospital environment.
Great idea of course. Except that part of that decision involved creating the University degree entry route in order to do so, which replaced the old 12-week course or whatever it was. Then in the meantime, again for many reasons, a lot of the old school started leaving, so in the last couple of years, that's created a bit of a recruitment issue.
So then last year in response to that, the regional healthcare funding bodies realised that some concerted action was needed for recruitment, thus they started funding the course.
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