Why do ED technician positions require EMT certification then?
Who said all ED positions require EMT? SOME EDs require ER techs be an EMT, some require they be a Paramedic, some might hire Nursing students with a certain amount of clinical experience, and some require they be CNAs.
At one time EMT was the preferred minimum training, but that seems to be changing, and some EDs are moving away from them to either a higher level of prehospital provider like a Paramedic, Nursing students who can perform many of the same tasks as RNs, or CNAs whose training emphasizes taking care of multiple patients at once and who often have experience in other parts of the hospital they transfer from, and therefore have a shorter learning curve.