Nurses vs Techs

You missed the boat.  An EMT and a Paramedic ARE para somthings.  The
time frame you discuss are part-time training schedules while a nurse
goes to school for 2-4 years full time plus general education.  I
don't know what interglactic rock you came from but I have been thru
both the basic EMT (1973) and Paramedic schools (twice, regs changed
1974 and 1978) as well as an ADN and BSN nursing programs.

You need to go back and review your jurisdictions options on
delegation and practice.  The para somethings may work for the ER doc
not the ER nurse.

As for me, give me two techs and an RN to run a small rural ER in a 50
bed first aide station.  In the big city, you need one tech for every
2 RNs.  This means the RN can assess according to the nurse practice
act of the jurisdiction and then delegate the appropriate tasks to the
para-somethings.

Good luck


On 28 Nov 2003 11:36:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FIREOUT) wrote:

>I just read a article in Time, which was discussing the replacement of
>nurses with techs .  One nurse states,  that a pt may tell me that they
>are coughing and feel anxious, that a pulmonary embolism, a para-something
>with only six months of school wont catch things like that."
>
>So are now the EMS providers para-somethings with little training.  Last
>time I looked it took about 6 months to be an EMT and 1 and 1/2 to be a
>medic.
>
>Hmm...arent nurses and paramedics ACLS trained....yeah but in the eyes of
>the nurses we are just "para-somethings"