EMT at Last

I took my EMT practical on wednesday...and I passed! I worked with Meryl and we had four scenarios to do. The first was the individual skill in which i had to demonstrate how to apply suction. The second was a cardiac arrest...basically a cpr scenario. Not like the BS cpr scenarios I had when I took CPR in highschool. This was pretty realistic and they grade you according to how well you do things. In order to pass you have a ninety-minute window in which to get an AED going and a four minute window in which to call ALS. Our third scenario was the trauma...and that one was a littel rough mainly because it was different than the traumas that they demonstrated for us in class. It was made more complicated by the fact that the patient (an EMT at the school) didn't seem to have anything actually wrong with him other than the fact that he was unconscious. We back boarded him and transported. Our one slipt was that we forgot to check the back, but we caught it in time. All we did was backboard him and transport, but we didn't know if we had done it right because we weren't sure what was wrong with him. I guess we did ok though because we both passed. My last scenario (which you do alone, just like with the aptly named individual skill) was the medical, and it was awsome. I love doing medical, which is good since that's what most calls are. I had a heart attack patient, and I took a SAMPLE history along with her vitals, gave her a quick focused medical exam and administered nitroglycerin (she had oxygen on the whole time, of course). And that was pretty much that.
I took the written test today and it was so easy it really wasn't much more than a formality for me. That's okay though because the local written was a prettry thourough test, so I think we were evaluated pretty well.
So I'm going to be an EMT-B. What do you know.