Volunteer time count as experience

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EMT2015

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Hello,

According to the NREMT, you need to have 6 months experience working as an EMT to recertify. I am currently not working as am EMT but I do have 6 months of working for a volunteer organization in the Bay Area. Does anyone know if this would count towards the 6 months for NREMT.
 
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Awesome! Thanks! I've been trying to get this question answered for a over a week now and I couldn't find anything on the NREMT website about it.
 
Your agency should have a person who will sign off on your recertification. This is usually a training officer or some kind of supervisor. As them, they should be able to help you out.
 
Where in the Bay Area are you? We may know each other.
 
DrParasite said:
Your agency should have a person who will sign off on your recertification. This is usually a training officer or some kind of supervisor. As them, they should be able to help you out.
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I am currently not working on an ambulance company. Just volunteering for RockMed.

Ishan said:
Where in the Bay Area are you? We may know each other.
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San Jose area
 
EMT2015 said:
Hello,

According to the NREMT, you need to have 6 months experience working as an EMT to recertify. I am currently not working as am EMT but I do have 6 months of working for a volunteer organization in the Bay Area. Does anyone know if this would count towards the 6 months for NREMT.
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I think it says somewhere on the NREMT that anything that utilizes the skills that the qualification allows counts as experience or something along those lines. as some people work as ER Tech OR Techs, Oil Field recovery and not traditional paramedic roles so they allow it.
 
Ok! Thanks
 
I have to correct my initial response. I thought you meant you were volunteering on an ambulance, which does count.

depending on what you are doing in the hospital, volunteering in a hospital may or may not count for recertification.
 
DrParasite said:
I have to correct my initial response. I thought you meant you were volunteering on an ambulance, which does count.
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That's ok. I'm a volunteer for a medical group that works at concerts, sporting events and other things.
 
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