troymclure
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how many states do you hold a license in currently?
how many states have you held a license in?
how many states have you held a license in?
how many states are you licensed in?
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DesertMedic66
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One and only one.
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I am licensed in 4 canadian provinces and have certs in 2 states.
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Licensed in two states.
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One, working on number two
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National Registry plus 3 states
CodeBru1984
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Nationally registered, licensed in one.
NomadicMedic
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NR, medic in 3.
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EMT I in one and paramedic in 1.
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Licensed in two states. It's hilarious how much harder my second license was compared to my first.
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I'm glad you pointed this out.
Canada issues a license.
To the best of my limited knowledge on national licensure, Texas is the only state that has a paramedic license. The others issue a paramedic certification.
I am certified in three states.
NomadicMedic
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The Delaware paramedic license. However, you must be certified by NREMT to obtain the license.
From the NREMT website; "The Legal Differences Between Certification and Licensure"
"Regardless of what descriptive title is used by a state agency, if an occupation has a statutorily or regulatorily defined scope of practice and only individuals authorized by the state can perform those functions and activities, the authorized individuals are licensed. It does not matter if the authorization is called something other than a license; the authorization has the legal effect of a license."
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Delaware issues a license. We're licensed through the Board of Medical Practice, which also does physicians, PAs, RTs, and a few others. I think Colorado is technically a certification. Either way, Texas is just the only one I know of that differentiates license vs. cert and has slightly different requirements for each.
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And it's completely meaningless and pointless. Have a BA in underwater basket weaving? You're a LP. Cert'd paramedics here do the exact same thing as licensed medics. Zero difference.
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At least Oregon mandates a degree for certification.
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Except some places wouldn't look at hiring me unless I had a Texas licensure instead of certification. I was looking at a few places in Texas prior to moving to Delaware and did a little research on all that nonsense. IIRC, the far easier option to transition my Paramedic to Texas from out of state was to submit documentation of a degree and apply for licensure instead of certification. It seems like it's an example of attempting to fix educational requirements the wrong way.
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Never had to transfer cents into here, but I've never heard of that. I've certainly never heard of companies here trying to specifically hire LPs.
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I think this should be the standard across the board.
When trucking schools have paramedic programs, it's a joke.
As far as certification v. licensure, all I was saying is that people associate a 'licensed' person as more professional and more educated. I'm not trying to split hairs on this, but I've had nurses correct medics who say 'my license' as if the 'certification' is nothing compared to a 'license'(even if they're legally synonymous)
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Not if you have been a medic for at least 5 years, 3 of them in a ALS system. Or something along those lines.