Emergency Medical Services Student Patch

Emergency Medical Services Student Patch

Being an Emergency Medical Services Student can be confusing for other hospital and emergency staff outside the classroom.  Are you a full Paramedic? Are you my Doctor?  Are you a ride-along with no role in a uniform? The student can get a lot of confusing reactions. I got all these reactions and more during my training. I knew that a simple, clear, yet professional patch on my uniform shirt or jacket would solve this problem. Years later, when we started the company we created this patch. Today, students wear either street cloths, polos, security-style uniform shirts or scrub tops but the confusion remains without clear identification.  Help your students stay productive and learning during rotations and ride-alongs. Promote your training program with students looking organized and professional while they represent your school.

This Embroidered Patch – Emergency Medical Services – Student is a 3″ diameter patch that is perfect for your uniform shirt or coat. The patch recognizes you as a member of the ambulance crew but also notifies staff, bystanders, and patients of your training status. “I’m here to learn and help with things within in my scope – but do not ask me to do brain surgery!”  Works well for required hospital rotations. This professional patch reduces confusion for everyone at the scene and hospital.

Our Emergency Medical Services Student Patch is a high-quality embroidered, 3 Inch round sew-on uniform patch with a white background. Navy blue border, Star of life, and the words,” Emergency Medical Services” and STUDENT in black. Very useful for school programs and training academies want students to presentable without the additional cost of a custom school patch (which we can also make in as little as 4 weeks with our in-house design team and high-quality factory. Works well for ERM Student, EMT Student, AEMT Student and Paramedic Student

Check out our suggested supplies for your EMT class at SafetyStore.com and AllThingsFirstAid.com 

When you graduate from your EMT student class, be sure to check out our great selection of EMT patches here.

A Little Story from the Early Stone-Ages of EMS:

Back in 1980, in San Francisco, when I was an Emergency Medical Services Student, every EMT student was required on rotations and ride-along (in the Hospital or on the Ambulance) to wear a short resident’s lab coat, dress shirt, tie black slacks and black dress shoes.

In the hospital, we were confused with medical residents and asked to do very advanced procedures we would have to back out of. Elderly patients did not real paramedics to work on them or ask them questions since “The Doctor” in the ambulance. We would get stuff from the rig and Police would not realize we were part of the ambulance crew and not let us back into the scene. As a student, I always had to waste time explaining my role, or my scope of practice to hospital staff, drunk patients etc. I also had to walk into a bar fight when everybody wants to take a swing at the 120 lb. clown in the doctor costume.

In San Francisco, California, 4 decades later, when you get your ID from the EMS Authority you get a 6-digit state number on your card. But when my County Card was issued, I was in the 330s for the City. I wound up using those skills as an EMT and Wilderness EMT over 4,000 times before an ambulance arrived. But we all spent time in class, rotations and ride-alongs, just like today’s students let’s not forget what it was like to do something on day one.

Helpful Words to the EMT Student from an Old Timer.

• The more practice you can get working with real life people of all sizes, ages and backgrounds – the better EMTs and paramedic ((and person) you will be in the future.
• Don’t expect to change a patient’s behavior, and turn over a new leaf, just because you explained some piece of medical information. It has usually taken a person many years to get to the point you are seeing them for this medical condition today.
• Some of the people you will work or even teaching you in the field with will be jaded, biased or even prejudiced about poor or other groups of people they serve and will try to influence the way you treat a patient a family. Unless there is a truly dangerous or violent situation. Treat everyone with the highest respect as you would a family member. It’s no one’s place to judge or punish who deserves your skills or service. Many times, days later, you find out who the “Real” bad guy is in a situation. All of us have guessed wrong at some time! So just don’t start down that road thinking about patients because you are trying to fit in with the team.