what am I getting myself into...

Greetings,

Well i better stop putting off blogging and also study but its so easy to do. I wanted to blog about something i read on the newspaper. I may not be the type that sits around on the breakfast table, eating my breakfast muffin and reading the newspaper(because i rather stare into space) but what caught my attention was today(or yesterdays) headline. I quote "Paramedic Wilderness", sound scary to you? it did for me. Well because i'm studying to be a paramedic; i read on.

The article says one ordinary qualified paramedic, not those intensive care paramedics that act as first response (sigh' maybe one day) but one, single, one, oh you get the point. How one paramedic has to work by themself and not with a partner originally, because there is an increase shortage of staff. First i have been reading articles how nurses are being underpaid and being treated unfairly but now it effects pre-hospital care workers. Why does the public health system have to compromise.

I can't seem to imagine how the system is going to be in the next couple of years. Also I can't imagine how much they would have to hack or cough up just for some decent work and salary. As much as i am shocked and appalled which such information that it makes me re-think about "what am I getting myself into"

Am i getting involve with a lifetime of abuse, finance problems and burnout or is it going to be a carefree and stable environment. To be honest I rather think of It as that. But surely enough im going to face reality upfront and be tackled down. At the point when I finished reading the article i put myself in their shoes which is called empathizing, ok I sound dumb now, but I imagined myself working alone, attending to multiple patients at one time, driving two to three hour drive with no stop, revive, survive and risking my ability to continue treating and caring for another in the run long. I see how so much is at risk.

I even thought it would be a good, to be mentally and physically challenged. I thought wrong, I may have given up in the first week. Mainly this problem is focused on the rural areas and not so much in the metropolitan. Growing up in the suburban areas I haven't experience the real rural sides of Australia. Bathurst is the closet to it. I had a imaginative phase here too, firstly working in the city and suddenly requested to transfer to the rural(countryside) and then I added myself working alone on road. I remained in chills.

Now i sound like im going downhill with this blog, but I'm not entirely fed-up or have any regrets of entering this course. Because reading this article has foreseen a little bit of what i should expect in the future. You can also say that its preparing me for the worse. I want to take this the right way.

So in three years time, lets hope for some improvements or bring in more articles this way!

Ok ninety percentage of this blog is either negative and sounding like i want to take this to the government but the ten percentage left still shows i want to continue to study this field of work and make a change. I want to be involved! Period

Thanks for reading, readers

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