Paramedics charged with murder

[u/_bernardtaylor23]

https://youtu.be/7Y0l2A0zqUU?si=FQ3AP43Cc_hSG8zK

Burnout is a real thing in the EMS world. You have to find ways to make sure it doesn’t affect your patient care. Never want to end up in a situation like this.

[u/AngryOldPotato]

Nope. Just no. In the vast majority of the US it goes (very basically) like this.

EMT-B= Basic life support. All your basic first aid, the use of oxygen and defibrillators, a few meds like narcan, Albuterol, Epi, dextrose, Nitro, aspirin, and Zoloft, can be administered or the pt can be “assisted” with then.

120-150 hours of training. Around 4 months. (Although I’ve seen 6 week corses)

EMT-A Same as B with a few more meds and both IV’s and limited intabation training with a small amount of training in cardiac monitoring.

An Additional 150-200 hours.

EMT-P That’s your paramedic. Same as above with even more meds, advanced intabation and cardiac monitoring.

600 didactic and lab with an additional 450 clinical/field hours. (1 year or 3 semesters) Requires no degree

RN=3500-4000 hours. 4 years of school ending in a bachelors degree. BSN

In every state is the US the level of training and certification of a paramedic is BELOW the level of an RN.

[u/nastycontasti → u/AngryOldPotato]

Yeah except rns can’t give meds at all without a doctors order and paramedics can give 25 different meds by themself. I think that’s why he said it’s in between nurse and doctor ie. the ability to give meds. Also the floor nurse is gonna freak out in an emergency that a medic or even emt probably wouldn’t considering they have experience. Emts don’t really have much school though so I can’t really say they can do very much to prevent death of a person.

[u/nastycontasti → u/[deleted]]

I know, I was talking about floor nurses not icu, er, and cct. They are different than just a regular nurse imo.