The countdown begins... this Friday, my EMT-B practical test happens. I am walking around with my protocol and test notebook having trouble doing anything else, even though the test is 5 days away and for the most part, all material on it has been covered. Still, what is nerve-wracking about it is the sudden-death nature of the exam. Miss just one critical item (anywhere from, I'd say, 20%-50% of the items on the skills-testing stations are marked as being critical), and you fail the station. Fail more than two stations, and you fail the test. Oh yeah, and two of the stations are mandatory passes-- if you fail just one of them, you failed the whole exam.

No pressure here.

But the good news is, you'll be in sound, knowledgeable hands when you break your leg and I show up to help you... assuming of course that I pass the "long bone fracture" station. >)