Chose your destiny.

Today it has been two years since you graduated from the Prehospital Emergency Care program from the Ahuntsic College.

Choice 1 : Go into the Advanced Prehospital Emergency Care program at university.

Choice 2 : Stay a Primary care paramedic and go work for Urgence Santé in Montreal.

Go into the Advanced Prehospital Emergency Care program at university.

Your decision is made. You want to be an ALS. You start looking up the requirements to realise that you have everything you need to get into the program. Yay! You keep reading only to find out that the university only accepts 50 people out of the 500 applicants. You ask yourself some serious questions.

Choice 1 : Stay positive and apply.

Choice 2 : Give up your dream.

Stay a Primary care paramedic and go work for Urgence Santé in Montreal.

This is it! It is officially where you want to work until the end of your career. Working in Montreal means a lot of calls and always being on the move. You love being in action and help people. Now that you know that you got the job, you are waiting to know when you will work. Damn it! You got the night shift.

Choice 1 : You can't wait to start your first night shift!

Choice 2 : Burgh. Nothing more boring than a night shift.

Give up your dream.

Even though it is your dream since you knew you wanted to become a paramedic, you don't want to take the chance to have your application be declined. Ever since you started college, you've had success in everything except that one night. The night of your first intervention on a car accident with children.

Choice 1 : Take an appointment with a therapist to learn how to cope with a PTSD.

Choice 2 : Do nothing about it because you can overcome it by yourself.

Stay positive and apply.

"Congratulation! You got accepted." Good news, you got in. Now you have important decisions to make. Are you still working on the weekends? How much is it going to cost to go back to school? How do you tell your boss that you can't work as a primary care paramedic during the week anymore? So many questions.

Choice 1 : I can sort it out.

Choice 2 : Wait, this is too much to think about. I can't. I give up.

You can't wait to start your first night shift!

Night shifts in Montreal are very interesting. You can have psychotic patients or gun shot victims. No patients present the same clinical portrait which means it always requires you medical judgment. Your first shift goes well are you go back to wondering. Are you a primary care paramedic or do you want to do more?

Choice 1 : I want to go to university.

Choice 2 : I want to stay were I am.

Burgh. Nothing more boring than a night shift.

As you heard all the way trough college and trough your first two years on the road, patients are always the same; psychotic. Nothing more boring than doing psychological support all night. No action at all, and they are worse when it's a full moon. In the domain, full moons are known to bring their load of psychotic patients.

Choice 1 : Learn more about the shift night.

Choice 2 : Complain about it to your new partner.

Take an appointment with a therapist to learn how to cope with a PTSD.

To take an appointment with a therapist trough the support system, you have to contact human resource's. Then, they will take you trough the formal process and at the end you'll meet with a psychologist or another health worker to help you with your PTSD.

Choice 1 : You start getting better.

Choice 2 : You give up.

Do nothing about it because you can overcome it by yourself.

You've studied long enough the way PTSD works to know that you'll be okay. You don't need help from anyone and you think you'll heal by yourself.

Choice 1 : You start getting better.

Choice 2 : You give up.

I can sort it out.

You get in touch with your boss who promise to hire you afterwards as an ALS.

Choice 1 : I want to go to university.

Wait, this is too much to think about. I can't. I give up.

Not only the internship is exhausting, I can happen at anytime and at any hour during the week. More often than not, the shifts given take longer to end. As a result of that, it is impossible to keep a regular job. Yes it comes with a pay raise but still, not worth it.

Choice 1 : Stay a Primary care paramedic and go work for Urgence Santé in Montreal.

I want to go to university.

After thinking about it, you chose to go to university. After all, many others did and they all survived. END.

Choice 1 : Chose your destiny.

I want to stay were I am.

After considering all of your options, you think that this could be the perfect job for you. By staying with this job you avoid going back to doing an internship and then an on the job training for 3 to 6 months. Considering that you've always wanted to become a primary care paramedic, what could you want more? END.

Choice 1 : Chose your destiny.

Learn more about the shift night.

After doing some research, you find out that there is about 7 people shot every night. Even more are found in a cardiac arrest. There are car accidents every night. A lot of things can happened during one night and that's what makes it a beautiful profession. END.

Choice 1 : Chose your destiny.

Complain about it to your new partner.

You start complaining with your partner who agrees with you. Together you start neglecting your patients because they all seems the same to you. You keep your bad behavior even after a lot of warning from your boss. You just received your "last" warning before being asked to leave.

Choice 1 : You choose to change your behavior.

Choice 2 : You keep acting the way you do.

You start getting better.

Since the beginning of the therapy, you find yourself doing better and better every day. It is now time to go back to work.

Choice 1 : Go into the Advanced Prehospital Emergency Care program at university.

Choice 2 : Stay a Primary care paramedic and go work for Urgence Santé in Montreal.

You choose to change your behavior.

You accept to change you attitude towards your patients. With the change of your behavior, you realise that patients are less similar than you think. Each of them should get a treatment appropriate to their needs. You start doing your job the way you should. You love being a paramedic and won't repeat your mistakes. END.

Choice 1 : Chose your destiny.

You keep acting the way you do.

By acting the way you did, you got yourself fired. END.

Choice 1 : Chose your destiny.