That EMT should get an award. When a Visiting Nurse removed the staples after my mother's triple bypass, she neglected to put anything on the largest open portion of her leg incision & consequently it opened further and began to bleed heavily. I called the Visiting Nurse (as I'd been instructed to do if we had a problem) , she acted perplexed about what to do and told me she had no supplies - no bandaids, no steri-strips. HUH? A nurse who doesn't have medical supplies - pretty useless. Needless to say, I applied pressure, cut up some bandaids & that worked.
I'm always wary of so called "help" that's supposedly out there from councils, church groups, organizations, and especially GOVERNMENT funded bureaucracies. Most are like that LPN playing Nurse. No help at all.