Other Medic jobs

[mikie]

I have seen medics working in ERs basically acting as RNs. What other in-hospital care can paramedics give? (ie- what jobs can paramedics have outside the 'prehospital arena')?

Thanks

 

[firecoins]

you mean jobs that are inside.

Hyperbaric chamber technician

 

[VentMedic]

Hyperbaric chamber technician

Education, training and national certification recommended especially for hospitals or any facility that wants accreditation.

medics working in ERs basically acting as RNs.

That depends on the state as to how much they "can act as an RN".

 

[mikeylikesit]

Hospital medics aren't medics anymore. their job title and scope both change in the hospital setting.

 

[mikie]

Hospital medics aren't medics anymore. their job title and scope both change in the hospital setting.

Yeah, so I guess I'm asking what jobs can people with the equivalency of a medic can do

 

[rhan101277]

I have a friend who is a RN, here in Mississippi RN's can't intubate. Paramedics can though, strange since RN requires more schooling.

 

[firecoins]

I have a friend who is a RN, here in Mississippi RN's can't intubate. Paramedics can though, strange since RN requires more schooling.

Actually it isn't strange at all. Nurses, doctors and PAs don't learn intubation in nursing/medical/PA school. They get general nursing and medical training. Intubation is a specialty skill.

 

[Epi-do]

When doing my ER clinicals for medic class, I thought it was odd that I could start an EJ, if needed, but a nurse can't do it. Whenever a patient didn't have anything else for IV access, but had to have an IV, the RN would go find a medic to start the IV in the EJ. When I asked about it, I was told that it isn't considered a peripheral IV for RNs around here.

 

[VentMedic]

"Skills" vary state to state, county to county, city to city, ambulance to ambulance and hospital to hospital.

The biggest difference is having the education to back up the "skill" once it becomes part of your specialty.

 

[VentMedic]

Now back to the topic.

ER Technician

Telemetry Tech (monitor watching)

Cath lab, rare occasions, but now these departments have minimum education and specific requirement requirements.

Phlebotomist (but a certificate of training and State cert may be required such as in California)

The Paramedic is trained for "prehospital". It is difficult in some states to work with the same "title" because of the way the EMS statutes were specifically written. A couple of RT departments hired LVNs (mostly displaced from regular nursing jobs due to need in advanced education such as "RN") to do O2 rounds which frees up the RRTs for the ICUs and pt assessments. EMTs and EMT-Ps could not be considered due to the way the statutes were written for some in hospital duties.