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Well i am waiting to here back wether or not i got into paramedic school this fall since then I have applied at the local ems and also a contracted company that works with the local hospital that does patient transports between the different hospital campuses and such, also they do the transports for ED patients that need to go to the behavioral health units. Its 4-10's a week with a couple overnight on calls a month and I plan on taking this job if i dont make it into the program this year and use it as experience. I figure it will be fairly boring as they are "stable" for trans. but just wondering if anyone has any experince with a similar job and can give your .02. Thanks.
 
Thats the way a lot of ift services are. Not bad for getting your feet wet. And if you approach it.right you can learn a lot. Great way to get used to talking to patients roo
 
Thanks for the reply. I would much rather get into medic school and land a part time job with the local EMS but if that does not happen I would more than gladly take the transport job.
 
You seriously can learn a LOT by doing those kinds of transports. Your patients will usually be stable, you'll have their H&P records, you can get report from the Nurses (and sometimes Physicians if they happen to be there and want to teach...) and you'll get used to meeting & greeting your patients. You'll get used to doing physical assessments and you'll even start learning to do more focused assessments on them as well. You'll have access to a patient's medication list and allergies as well and sometimes lab studies and so much more...

In short, those transports can be an amazingly good place to start working on "the basics" of being an EMT, even though you won't be able to do a whole heck of a lot, you can start putting the pieces together. After you get off shift, you could start looking up the various conditions and their pathophysiology. I suggest for any one that's pre-Paramedic that they take at least the regular Anatomy and Physiology courses for a good foundation in "the basics" about the human body.

You should use the time between now and you starting paramedic school to learn as much as you can about that stuff, for the more you know, the easier time you'll have in school and (hopefully) the better Paramedic you'll be down the road!
 
So on Friday I called back HR and told them I would take the job and that I am waiting to get my documents from the National Practitioners database so I can send in all my documents to the state to get my state license and that it might be a week or two until that happens but the lady with HR said i didnt need my state lisence or my NREMT for that matter. But when I was in the interview I had told the lady that and she said that was ok they could work with it and that they only hire EMT's because of their protocols stating they needed EMT for patients who were on stretchers?.?.?.? I think their is a disconnect in the info im being given. I also have a ride along with the local EMS this week as i put in an app last week so hopefully that goes well as I am planning on doing that part time along with the pt trans job. Any input on the whole needing/not needing state licensure?
 
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So on Friday I called back HR and told them I would take the job and that I am waiting to get my documents from the National Practitioners database so I can send in all my documents to the state to get my state license and that it might be a week or two until that happens but the lady with HR said i didnt need my state lisence or my NREMT for that matter. But when I was in the interview I had told the lady that and she said that was ok they could work with it and that they only hire EMT's because of their protocols stating they needed EMT for patients who were on stretchers?.?.?.? I think their is a disconnect in the info im being given. I also have a ride along with the local EMS this week as i put in an app last week so hopefully that goes well as I am planning on doing that part time along with the pt trans job. Any input on the whole needing/not needing state licensure?
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The bolded part was kind of confusing, at least to me. But to answer your question, lots of states require either an NREMT certification OR a state EMT license. You don't need both in order to be hired as an EMT in specific states. As to needing to hire EMTs, yes. As you transport patents, they require a certain level of care as dictated by their condition and the treatments that they are on. If they are non-ambulatory, that dictates a BLS level of transport. If they are on IABPs or LVADs, they require a CCT level transport.
 
haha sorry so the lady that I interviewed with said that I would need my NREMT but HR said that i did not, so I am guessing HR misunderstood what i was saying when i didnt have my state license.
 
Ask about internal or central transport. I got onto a great hospital system in OKC. When I was hired all they required was CPR. I have become the department manager in little less then a year. We have everything from simple ambulatory moves to the most critical ICU patients. I don't require emt. But I take preference to emt and nursing students.

Transporters pay varies between hospitals. Ive seen 8.25 an hour up to 14.75 an hour.

Before I got promoted transporters couldn't touch anything health related. All they could do was transport. Ive got it now to were we do basic vitals, small patient assessments and cardiac monitoring.
 
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Ask about internal or central transport. I got onto a great hospital system in OKC. When I was hired all they required was CPR. I have become the department manager in little less then a year. We have everything from simple ambulatory moves to the most critical ICU patients. I don't require emt. But I take preference to emt and nursing students.

Transporters pay varies between hospitals. Ive seen 8.25 an hour up to 14.75 an hour.

Before I got promoted transporters couldn't touch anything health related. All they could do was transport. Ive got it now to were we do basic vitals, small patient assessments and cardiac monitoring.
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That sounds like what Im getting into. I start tomorrow and it starts at $15 and some change with full benefits after 60 days, They do require you to be BLS trained but not certified or licensed which I thought was kind of weird.
 
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