Can someone explain what exactly community paramedics are and how what they do is different from what the existing public health nursing/community health nurses do now.
Maybe it's not like this everywhere but where I live, the county health department has nurses who go check in on elderly patients, tske vitals, make sure they are taking medications etc. With politicians always decrying "duplication of services" wouldn't it make more sense to use funds to beef up these programs and maybe add some NPs who can prescribe, suture etc. rather than creating an entire parallel system?
If anyone works in an area that has both systems, how are responsibilities divided up between the two programs?
Maybe it's not like this everywhere but where I live, the county health department has nurses who go check in on elderly patients, tske vitals, make sure they are taking medications etc. With politicians always decrying "duplication of services" wouldn't it make more sense to use funds to beef up these programs and maybe add some NPs who can prescribe, suture etc. rather than creating an entire parallel system?
If anyone works in an area that has both systems, how are responsibilities divided up between the two programs?