Recent content by Paramedic150

Service sets wages. Just making sure do to standard of care laws and the whole neglagence thing.

Thanks for explaining it and I don't care to get paid to do less of a job my only concern was I didn't want to get stuck holding the bag if something bad happened. Just seems illogical and a waste of resource to place a medic on a bls rig but not my call. Thanks again everyone. No sliding scale...

I understand what both of you are saying and honestly didn't know that it is legal for me to receive the same amount of pay to be a medic one day and work on a wheelchair van the next. My company has ALS and BLS trucks so even though my certification level is Paramedic and there is a statewide...

Same company same rate of pay just one day they can say ok today you are a medic but tomorrow you will be a basic? No change in status no change in pay just because the company you work for decided for you that you have to be a basic that day. (A) A person issued a certificate to practice shall...

So its perfectly ok for a paramedic serve on a BLS ambulance without ALS equipment? Ok so say pt codes in back of ambulance then you as a paramedic do not have ALS equipment to provide what you have been trained to do. Pretty sure that is negligence. You are not providing the appropriate...

Ok here is the situation. I am a paramedic at a private ambulance company. The frequently take EMT-I's and EMT-P's and place them on BLS rigs with no ALS equipment or even place them in Wheelchair trucks. I know this isn't suppose to be but when I tell supervisor they blow it off. The...