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As long as he can remember, ever since he was a boy playing with toy ambulances and firetrucks and watching "Emergency" on TV, Jimmy Stephens knew what he wanted to be. He is happily living his lifelong dream.
A volunteer ambulance dispatcher at age 16, he graduated to EMT, then to paramedic and worked 12 years as a firefighter and paramedic for the city. He got an associate degree in nursing and worked in three CAMC emergency rooms. When the county introduced its critical- care transport program in 1998, he raced to the front of the application line. Today, he's a critical-care transport nurse based in Nitro.See the full content of this document
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Innerviews: ; 'We Deal; with Everything'
At 43, he's working on a bachelor's degree in nursing, a step that takes him closer to his ultimate goal: nursing anesthesia.
He's calm, comfortable and quietly confident in the roles that evolved from boyhood aspiration."I grew up when the TV show 'Emergency' was real popular. A lot of the older people in EMS grew up in that time, and that's how...See the full content of this document
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