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Medical Doctors have the AMA, Nurses have the ANA, PAs have the AAPA. What do Paramedics have, the NAEMT? I don't like them.
I think that there should be a professional organization for Paramedics dedicated to advancing the profession, protecting paramedics from god-awful employers and low wages, promoting education, lobbying congress, etc.
I have been talking to many PAs lately because it may be a path I will take, and they have a wonderful attitude about professional advocacy. They are all united and whenever a newspaper or other form of media makes a mistake like calling them medical assistants, etc, they jump on. Hundreds of emails are written in hours. The public is educated.
Paramedicine has stagnated for quite a long time, and we cannot use the excuse that we are a young profession anymore. I see a future where we refer out to outpatient care, provide community welfare checks and staff health fares, champion for public health, and provide emergency care and transport to emergency rooms. We have the potential to blunt to ER crisis around the country, to expand our education and professionalism, and to really ask what can we do for the public. Plus, we can use this all as a platform for public education.
EDIT: EMTs are out of this equation. If we are to actually become a health profession, EMTs are not going to be seen as equals or substitutes to Paramedics.
Thoughts?
I think that there should be a professional organization for Paramedics dedicated to advancing the profession, protecting paramedics from god-awful employers and low wages, promoting education, lobbying congress, etc.
I have been talking to many PAs lately because it may be a path I will take, and they have a wonderful attitude about professional advocacy. They are all united and whenever a newspaper or other form of media makes a mistake like calling them medical assistants, etc, they jump on. Hundreds of emails are written in hours. The public is educated.
Paramedicine has stagnated for quite a long time, and we cannot use the excuse that we are a young profession anymore. I see a future where we refer out to outpatient care, provide community welfare checks and staff health fares, champion for public health, and provide emergency care and transport to emergency rooms. We have the potential to blunt to ER crisis around the country, to expand our education and professionalism, and to really ask what can we do for the public. Plus, we can use this all as a platform for public education.
EDIT: EMTs are out of this equation. If we are to actually become a health profession, EMTs are not going to be seen as equals or substitutes to Paramedics.
Thoughts?
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