EMT Charged With Abandoning Child

A question worth noting: Are EMTs and Paramedics in NYC required to have a CORI, or similar background check before hiring, because they can be in situations with children alone, where they are the responsible party.

Again, we dont know the circumstances behind this article, so we are doing nothing more then armchair EMS.
 
Advocates!

Bottom line..... We as professionals are the patient's advocate, no matter what certification or license one holds. Emergency department waiting rooms are one of the most dangerous places that anyone including a child, could ever be in.

Can't tell you how many times how all hell can break lose when patients, family members, or "concerned friends" come through those doors, what was done was a very very poor choice, what is even more upseting to me that it was a child.
 
emt.dan said:
A question worth noting: Are EMTs and Paramedics in NYC required to have a CORI, or similar background check before hiring, because they can be in situations with children alone, where they are the responsible party.

Again, we dont know the circumstances behind this article, so we are doing nothing more then armchair EMS.
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all emts in NYS go through a backround check when they complete the class. Employers all do their own check.

Having dealt with the NYC system I am sure what happaned had nothing to do with previous criminal behaviou IF the article is correct in any capacity.

This investigation could be the result of an argument between the triage nurse and the EMT/Medic. I would not take the article at its word.

The ambulance triage station is in the ER not in the waiting room. The child if actualy left alone was not alone.
 
An impatient medic was arrested Friday for abandoning a 5-year-old boy at a Bronx hospital on New Year's Eve because he didn't want to wait for the paperwork, officials said.

Paul Casson, 28, of the Bronx, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child when he forged a nurse's signature because he didn't want to stick around at Lincoln Hospital, a spokeswoman for the Department of Investigation said.
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So was the boy triaged and in bed? Was the boy already in the care of the ER but the emt/medic didn't want to wait for the signature? Where was the boy left? Was he put in a stretcher? Or left standing around? Lot of facts missing.

Why is unidentified spokesman unidentified?

We know why the 5 year old wasn't identified. People charged with crimes are usually identified. Why not the spokesman?
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If he did this it was wrong!

We are not getting the full story here. To many "what if's" left open.

Was the child left alone, really? Was the signature really forged? How do we know that the nurse did not sign for it and is now denying it to cover their butt? I have Rn's sign my epcr all the time. They scribble their signatures on it and it looks nothing like their actual signature. They could easily deny it is theirs.

If the investigation finds this all to be facts, then he should be jailed and lose his cert. But, lets wait for the full story on this!
 
This incident happened over 10 weeks ago. That is plenty of time for an imvestigation. This is not a "breaking next day" news story. The story was not "leaked" to the press by an anonymous source although not directly named here the title is given. The family is not on national TV getting their 15 minutes of fame and a major settlement. The next question will be what the partner has to say and if he/she also has any knowledge of this by statements that may have been made or events witnessed. But, that may already have happened.
 
Yes, but you know that states can take forever to do an investigation!
 
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