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St Johns Ambulance
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Have anyone ever joined st johns or is part of st johns?? I am starting soon and just wondering what activies etc you do.I am training to be a paramedic so i hope its gonna be good experiance !!
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Just because you didn't like the advice doesn't mean GWST isn't right.
In St John Ambulance you can train up to be an Ambulance Technician and saying a First Aider can't treat is bollocks. Depends entirely on the first aider. A paramedic is a first aider!
To be a paramedic you must first be an Ambulance Technician.
Assuming a County does all qualifications (like mine) then...
To observe on a duty and treat under supervision you need ECS (Essential Care Skills) and MH (Manual Handling).
To treat on your own you need FAW (First Aid at Work) which is normal First aid Certificate you get anywhere.
TO use stretchers and Carry chairs and carry blankets you need CAS (Casualty Handling)
After this you have BC (Baby and Child)
Then it gets more fun with MG (Medical Gases - i.e. Oxygen, Suction, Laughing Gas), Fractures I and II (Spinebords splints etc).
Keeps on going with Fundamental Care, Patient Handling and Ambulance Aid I and Ambulance Aid II. etc etc.
Depends entirely. A normal First Aider has no real experiance and only gets assessed every three years. In general they are useless, bollocks and lose their heads when something cool like disemboweling happens.
St John Ambulance members usually practise first aid every week and also are much more confident due to experiance on duty. One of guys I go on duty with a few months ago also works at a theme park and was the first aider on the scene when a worker had an abdomenal wound and his guts actually fell out. Apparently a bit gross but the guy knew what to do until ambulance turned up.
I would say on the whole St John Ambulance do so much training and get such a large amount of experiance that they are usually far better than anyone who just has a FAW.
aye, i'm a trained first aider (rescue and emergency, which despite the fancy title just means in addition to being rather handy with plasters and a bandage, i can also pull people out of rivers. woo), and the guy who taught us kept stressing that if the injury was more than a something really minor, we were only there to keep tabs on the person until the ambulance arrived.
he did mention that first aid types have a tendency to get a wee bit above themselves and come over all doogie howser, and that we were NOT to do that because it was quite likely we'd cock the situation up even more.
That is the minimum St John Ambulance members need. They do lots more training to cope with all sorts of stuff and practise a hell of a lot more than people who are just first aiders at their place of occupation do.
From what I have seen they know normally what they can and cannot do. Yes First Aiders are only supposed to keep someone stable until an ambulance arrives in serious cases but there are a multitude of things St John Ambulance members do and practise weekly to help make their chance of living higher. For example log roles (which people with FAW will not be qualified or insured to do).