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It explains how to complete initial certification through NREMT, how to obtain Colorado licensure legally after required checks, and how to maintain professional standards when caring for patients, families, and fellow responders. It also outlines recertification requirements, including hours of approved EMS continuing education, topic categories, and ways to earn NREMT CE credits through classes or exams.","Pearls from the street  \n• Begin accumulating continuing education credits (CEUs) now . Don't wait 2-1/2 years!  \n• Although knowledge and technical skills cannot be overlooked, they are useless without compassion.  \n• Your medical director is thereto help you, guide you, teach you .  \n• Despite all our many Advances, technology, professionalization, vocabulary and tools, the fundamentals remain the same — keep the air moving, plug the leaks, keep it pumping and think.  \n• Be nice to everyone you meet. Most patients don't need much beyond a gentle smile, a warm hand to hold and a quiet, comforting presence .  \n• Used correctly, a good sense  \nof humor will make many situations go from bad to notso-bad.  \n  Fold Fold    \n\n| EMS Continuing\u003Cbr>Education Record For\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | ________\u003Cbr>________\u003Cbr>________ |  |  |  |\n\nNow Im an EMT _What do I do.indd 3/2018  \n  Fold Fold    \nI’m an EMT!  \nWhat Do I Do Now?  \nEMS  \n CRITICAL   \nINFORMATION  \nCongratulations on completing your EMT training, which is no small task as you are well  \naware. This brochure will help you learn the nuances of certification, continuing education and  \nrecertification as a Colorado EMT.  \nPeople enter EMS for many reasons. Most will tell you it is their desire to help their fellow man, which is of course true, but they often fail to mention the adrenalin rush, driving fast, being seen as hero, actually being a hero and saving lives. Being a professional in EMS has nothing to do with being paid or volunteer, nothing to do with working in a big city EMS operation or the most remote part of the state, nothing to do with advanced or basic life support, and certainly nothing to do with working for a fire department, a governmental 3rd service or a private for-profit ambulance service.  \nBeing a professional has everything to do with how you treat your patient, whether they are in cardiac arrest or are bedfast and need transport from the doctor’s office. It has everything to do with how you treat the patient’s family, regardless of how caring or intolerant they are being with the patient at the time. 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