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A thread of things I wish I’d known before I started my degree (for all you soon to be sparas) 
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1. Don’t believe what the screen tells you on the way to a job. The job’s that sound big and scary are often nothing to worry about. The jobs that sound straight forward are often the ones that make you think the most (and sometimes panic a little).
2. It’s okay to admit you don’t know what’s going on with a patient sometimes. Treat what you see. It’s not our job to diagnose everything (doctors get paid way more than us for that reason).
3. JRCALC page for age will save you when it comes to paediatric drugs, learn how to use it and have access to it always (I like the app personally)
4. There’s going to be a job that catches you off guard, shocks you and probably sticks with you. That’s okay. Talk to your mentor, your crew mate, your CS. That job will make you a better paramedic https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz">
5. Night shifts make you delirious. That’s it. I have nothing to add to that one.
6. My second year mentor once told me to learn where all the local pubs are. I thought he meant for after work, but people often give a location/directions by saying they’re “down the road from X pub”.
7. Never go to work with just one pen
8. At a big job, you can’t do everything. If you “only” held a bag of fluids at a cardiac arrest, you were part of a much bigger picture. There’s no “only” when it comes to our job.
9. Some of your patients will be some of the most interesting people you’ve ever met, listen to their stories if you have the time.
10. Finally, you’ll never know everything.
