NREMT Requirements

[taporsnap44]

We all talk about enhancing education in EMS, but I just wanted to see if the paramedic programs many of us are in are advancing education on their own. Our clinical class just met last week and the instructors informed us that we will no longer meet requirements by just showing up for our eight hour clinicals and then going home. So basically instead of basing requirements as hourly they have now changed it to being based off of skills performed. This is excellent for the area I live in, due to a low call volume. Also our program as increased the number of skill requirements to double everything that the NREMT has set. So instead of meeting the five minimal requirements for intubations set by NREMT, the program wants ten and so on. After reading many posts on here and other articles, I am lucky to be taking the Associates degree program where I am. So the post got a little drawn out, but the main question was to see how many programs around the country are taking their own steps to further education.

 

[Ridryder911]

WRONG...WRONG....WRONG!

Here we go again, poorly informed instructors giving wrong statements!

NREMT has NO such STANDARDS!!! They are a testing organization ONLY!

Those standards are from the new NHTSA curriculum integrating time and clinical objectives. You are correct more emphasis will be placed upon clinical objectives versus just the number of hours. The day of "coffee clinicals" are over! One must have met specific objectives (i.e. pediatric intubation, cardiac arrest, etc.) as well a number of minimal hours. Hopefully, this will reduce clinicals that only provide television time.

R/r911

 

[taporsnap44]

Thanks for telling me that NREMT does not set the standards, I knew that NHTSA set the standards for education but the way my instructor made it sounds was that these had to be met in order to test for NREMT. So the wording of my post may have been a bit misleading, but I will question what he meant by that when I see him. Also I definitely relate to the TV clinical, I had an eight hour practical with our local EMS agency and I had zero calls. The only educational aspect of the practical was helping to organize the counties new MCI trailer.

 

[Ridryder911]

No problem, even many instructors do not know who or whom sets the standards. True NREMT has standards but they follow the NHTSA standards to sit in their testing. They will require the institution to be accredited by 2012 for Paramedic level.

Good luck in school

R/r 911