How can I become a EMT?
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Are you coming to the USA?
With international certs.... you are likely to have to go through school again.
With international certs.... you are likely to have to go through school again.
HI!
Thx for your reply.
No I´m not from the US, I come from Germany.
I´m in the german army, and in about 6 and a half year my time in the army is gone and I wanna go to the US or Canada.
Because of this I wanna know if my education at least counts in the US (or Canada) or if I have to learn from the basics.:wacko:
Can you may help me with this?
Thx
from Germany
Kathi
Thx for your reply.
No I´m not from the US, I come from Germany.
I´m in the german army, and in about 6 and a half year my time in the army is gone and I wanna go to the US or Canada.
Because of this I wanna know if my education at least counts in the US (or Canada) or if I have to learn from the basics.:wacko:
Can you may help me with this?
Thx
from Germany
Kathi
HI!
Thx for your reply.
No I´m not from the US, I come from Germany.
I´m in the german army, and in about 6 and a half year my time in the army is gone and I wanna go to the US or Canada.
Because of this I wanna know if my education at least counts in the US (or Canada) or if I have to learn from the basics.:wacko:
Can you may help me with this?
Thx
from Germany
Kathi
Come to Canada..
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Found this thread via google...I think it will answer your question about Canada, and you'll likely get the same answer regarding the US...at least right now...
http://www.international-ems.com/forum/index.php?topic=706.0
http://www.international-ems.com/forum/index.php?topic=706.0
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Kathi
I don't know how a "Rettungsassistentin" compares to the Canadian Paramedic levels. However if you go here "http://www.gov.ns.ca/ehs/paramedics.htm" There is some information on registration here in Nova Scotia. Just above it are some "Comparison Templates". You can use these to compare your level of training and practice to what is required here. If you think your current training etc. is similar to ours you can ask your medical director to sign off on it. Then you can send it to our medical director for an evaluation. If he accepts it as being comparable then you would be registered at the appropriate level.
Then you just have to deal with Canadian immigration. You are on your own there as I dont know how to help you with that.
Best of luck. Glad you want to come to Canada.
I don't know how a "Rettungsassistentin" compares to the Canadian Paramedic levels. However if you go here "http://www.gov.ns.ca/ehs/paramedics.htm" There is some information on registration here in Nova Scotia. Just above it are some "Comparison Templates". You can use these to compare your level of training and practice to what is required here. If you think your current training etc. is similar to ours you can ask your medical director to sign off on it. Then you can send it to our medical director for an evaluation. If he accepts it as being comparable then you would be registered at the appropriate level.
Then you just have to deal with Canadian immigration. You are on your own there as I dont know how to help you with that.
Best of luck. Glad you want to come to Canada.
Hey!
Thx very much for this information, so I`ll do this.
In Germany we have a system in which a doctor comes to the place wherever you`re patient is, but sometimes you can`t get one, because they are busy or other circumstances.
As a "Rettungsassistent" you have the job to take your patient alive ,until the doc arrives and then assist him with the treatment, or take him alive to the next ER. Which includes
-IV`s,
-give a different choice of meds,
-intubate without meds,
-to defibrillate if necessery,
-repositioning of fracturs,
-ect....
includes ACLS, PHTLS,
and knowing about the different meds you can give at different diseases like Heart attack, cerebral ischemia, and many others, because often you`ve got the problem that you get a doc but he or she is absolutly displaced, because you have a bad car accident and the doc who arrives is specialist for urology or in the worst case you got a dentist ;-) So you must decide what meds are neccesery and he says "okay, when you think it`s the right, then applicate.
Do you think it could works?:unsure:
thx
Kathi
Thx very much for this information, so I`ll do this.
In Germany we have a system in which a doctor comes to the place wherever you`re patient is, but sometimes you can`t get one, because they are busy or other circumstances.
As a "Rettungsassistent" you have the job to take your patient alive ,until the doc arrives and then assist him with the treatment, or take him alive to the next ER. Which includes
-IV`s,
-give a different choice of meds,
-intubate without meds,
-to defibrillate if necessery,
-repositioning of fracturs,
-ect....
includes ACLS, PHTLS,
and knowing about the different meds you can give at different diseases like Heart attack, cerebral ischemia, and many others, because often you`ve got the problem that you get a doc but he or she is absolutly displaced, because you have a bad car accident and the doc who arrives is specialist for urology or in the worst case you got a dentist ;-) So you must decide what meds are neccesery and he says "okay, when you think it`s the right, then applicate.
Do you think it could works?:unsure:
thx
Kathi
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mycrofft
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Welcome to the FORUM!
You see, here there are so many EMT's you have to wait for one to die, and some of us are too impatient for that...
Did I mention not to take everything you read here seriously?
You see, here there are so many EMT's you have to wait for one to die, and some of us are too impatient for that...
Did I mention not to take everything you read here seriously?
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You'll have to recertify from the start in the US unfortunately!
They just don't trust us Europeans.
(In an off topic vent, with good reason. In Ireland they just re-named the EMT's to Paramedic with no extra training or scope of practice, and the EMT course is pretty much the FR course, and they aren't allowed to use a KED, GCS Score or stethescope to name a few (no joke!) BUT They are allowed to give Narcan and Glucogon IM. Go figure.... Glad I did my training in the US in 2004.)
They just don't trust us Europeans.
(In an off topic vent, with good reason. In Ireland they just re-named the EMT's to Paramedic with no extra training or scope of practice, and the EMT course is pretty much the FR course, and they aren't allowed to use a KED, GCS Score or stethescope to name a few (no joke!) BUT They are allowed to give Narcan and Glucogon IM. Go figure.... Glad I did my training in the US in 2004.)
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Kathi,
Sounds like you've got a lot of advanced EMS skills... somewhere between the EMT-I and EMT-P level in the US.
If you have 6+ years before you are out of the army... I'd suggest that you look in another few years... because everything will probably change in the next 3-4 years.
Sounds like you've got a lot of advanced EMS skills... somewhere between the EMT-I and EMT-P level in the US.
If you have 6+ years before you are out of the army... I'd suggest that you look in another few years... because everything will probably change in the next 3-4 years.
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Yep. No KED and Narcan.
and the new course people wonder why I shake my head when they pass me!
and the new course people wonder why I shake my head when they pass me!
Hi Jon!
Yes, I know that six years is still along time, but we have a system in the army that you can make different Educations and trainings while still staying in the army. And you don`t have to pay for it, everything payes the army ( in a definated frame). And because of that I want to use may Educationtime and money well. ^_^
thx
Kathi
Yes, I know that six years is still along time, but we have a system in the army that you can make different Educations and trainings while still staying in the army. And you don`t have to pay for it, everything payes the army ( in a definated frame). And because of that I want to use may Educationtime and money well. ^_^
thx
Kathi
Sorry that`s includes you too, but I think they have all gone completely mad "on your Island"
Which does not mean, that this changes my decision to come for a visit to Ireland one day, I think within the next two years. ^_^ Did I mention that I like travelling?B)
BUT when I come for a visit only in the healthiest Constitution I`ve ever was.
They`ve gone completely mad on your Island!
Kathi:beerchug: