re:working in ER

[PATCHRN@aol.com]

Rollie, in answer to your question What are we doing now..we float to varying 
units and help out with IV starts, codes in the ICU and in the ER and 
Pediatric ER.  We do not take primary patients and can come and go when we 
need to, but management is considering having us be permanent ER employees 
with our flight program leasing us when we have flights. When we have a 
flight we would have to report off to someone on our patients, chart that we 
did so, go punch out of ER and into flight program, change into flight suits, 
go pick up blood from lab, and scramble to the ship.  There is some animosity 
in the ER as you can understand that we always leave when they are the 
busiest...that's usually when we are busy too.  We do about 500 flights/year 
so there is quite a lot of down time.  We are just trying to work out the 
kinks and come up with the best way to do this and stay safe, while keeping 
up with our other duties in the program, ie. community projects, LZ classes, 
PR's, patient rounds, etc.  

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