mycrofft
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"EMT actions do not require medical direction".
Check your state laws, except....except, most states have adopted Good Sam specifically to protect licensees, including EMT's.
However, EMT's and others (including nurses) can act either using "professional judgement" (very slippery steep slope), or "within training/EMSA scope of practice", and/or "within protocols approved by medical direction". (EMSA is another form of medical direction, if one thinks about it).
As "technicians", your "professional judgement" is extremely narrow. Otherwise ambulance companies, as they were in the Seventies, would not be spending time and money on "medical direction", but just depending upon EMT "professional judgement". Very often even on the job we are not consciously following a protocol etc., because they are ingrained into the rules and memos and folkways of an organization, or just because things turned out OK and it isn't worth fighting about on that occasion and with that employee..
Check your state laws, except....except, most states have adopted Good Sam specifically to protect licensees, including EMT's.
However, EMT's and others (including nurses) can act either using "professional judgement" (very slippery steep slope), or "within training/EMSA scope of practice", and/or "within protocols approved by medical direction". (EMSA is another form of medical direction, if one thinks about it).
As "technicians", your "professional judgement" is extremely narrow. Otherwise ambulance companies, as they were in the Seventies, would not be spending time and money on "medical direction", but just depending upon EMT "professional judgement". Very often even on the job we are not consciously following a protocol etc., because they are ingrained into the rules and memos and folkways of an organization, or just because things turned out OK and it isn't worth fighting about on that occasion and with that employee..