Mine is fresh highschool graduates getting 2 weeks of training to go work acute, all-male forensic psychiatry. We’re taking criminally insane men who are unsafe to put on a unit with criminally insane women.
…and they would send fresh high school graduates (often girls because hospitals in general tend to be female-dominated) in the yoga pants and club makeup they think are proffessional because they literally have 0 previous work experience to sit suicide watch for criminally insane rapists who said they were suicidal because they knew they would send some 18y/o who doesn’t know any better to sit with them. It went about how you would expect the hundreds of times I watched it happen.
My favorite float technician was the 60 year old guy who was super gassy and looked like an off-season Santa. Everybody hated that guy because they said he was super lazy but he would sit suicide watch all fucking shift without complaining and he almost never failed to dissapoint a sex pest who thought they were gonna get some eye candy (or worse).
What’s your example?
EMS/Ambulance workers
I was shocked about this, I’d assumed it was well trained trauma doctors in the ambulance with you at your most critical moment.
Which country are you from?
USA! USA! USA!!11!!
I don’t know. I had to do a 3 month boot camp run through a local community college, and that included 36 hours of clinicals on an ambulance. There were daily tests, training on all the equipment, and batteries of tests finals that we had to pass. My favorite was we had to have a 80 in the course to qualify for the finals, but anything less than a 70 on any of the tests would disqualify you from taking registry, even if you had an 100 percent aside from that. That was for EMT Basic, the lowest levels of licensure. It’s a two year degree to become a paramedic (and I think thats like 200 hours of clincals, or something). And once I was in, there were 12 hours of CEs required for licensure (the company offered trainings), and I did have a written and practical test to take with the ambulance before they let me code, with a probationary period (mine was a few months, they really didn’t like me, looking back because I’m Jewish.)
I won’t go to bat for the industry very often. I was making minimum wage, I was working 60 hour weeks. The culture has a problem with boot licking and racism, work life balance, and catty bullshit. I never left like management had my back, and people gossip. And that’s before you get to the insane nature of the work, and the constant death and crisis around you. I worked nights; nothing was open, and there was never any time to eat, so we opted for handheld, easily available garbage from convenience stores. And of course, I never saw my family.
But even though registry can’t prepare you for the road, I would never have claimed I wasn’t properly trained.
That’s like half of the training I got to get my A+ certificate to work on personal computers.
Yeah,US training is a joke,tbh. Some of the best Emergency medical services are in the US. But most services are sadly an utter joke and the basic qualification necessary to respond to emergency calls wouldn’t be sufficient to drive people between nursing homes in most other countries.
In comparison:
That must be regional. My dad did EMS on the side - he once had no less than 5 jobs; no really - and it was easy for a fireman to get into but added to his retraining/recert load. And he was always recertifying.
They’re not doctors: they want to keep your body alive (and ideally brain too) so you get to a doctor and a team. They’re really great and their bus is usually outfitted well enough, but their two main skills are CPR and a Siren, I think. Plus a desire to help people for a pittance and cope with the trauma of someone dying on-board, which is second only to arriving at a scene and finding your best friend was killed by a drunk who’s trying to start his car and drive home.
… so my dad quit EMS the next day.
EMS structure is highly heterogeneous. Where are you from?