Re: EMT-P TO RN

[jim.kendrick@att.net]

Kuby,

When speaking in general I agree with the spirit of your 
message. A very close friend who happens to be a flight 
RN made that same statement to me several years ago but 
also added that they were not willing to work under the 
conditions they have to.

Hitting the door for a 12 hour shift to run the entire 
time (night shift) where they have to force the 
opportunity to take care of their normal excrement 
functions time and time again day after day. Don't come 
hungry unless it's junk food you like time is just not 
there for the proper diet. (Maybe that why they call it 
RN spread)

For the other readers of this thread I pose this 
question? Where does the basis that the title of RN 
means that you may "lord it up" over a Paramedic. My RN 
program nor the texts never made that information 
available to me. I'd like to review it and have the 
knowledge in case a question is posed on my NCLEX-RN in 
Feb. I don't mean to sound snide I just mean this in the 
vein of: Nursing text address the dangers of high flow 
O2 in the Pt. with COPD without mentioning the emergent 
blue COPDer with chest pain. 

Jim
> There is a bridge program in Nebraska for RN to EMT-P.  Kansas is working with 
> the Board of Nursing on bidirectional bridging programs now. 
> 
> Yet I must say that after completing the last 3.5 years of a 4 year nursing 
> program either I had one heck of a great instructor in Marilyn Crowley or I went 
> to a nursing program with minimal standards.  The most of the information I 
> found useful and not redundant education as a MICT to RN was the immune system.  
> I feel like there is not much difference in the two except depth of training.  
> 
> It also frustrates me to see head-hunters gloat over the fact that now is an 
> exciting time to be a nurse because there is a shortage.  As I walk the framed 
> halls of the school I am attending I see hundreds of nurses.  Thinking that 
> there are thousands of programs, I cannot see how there is a "shortage."  As I 
> listen to nurses in the clinical environment the same thing is said from 
> different faces 1)  They pay better at yadda yadda or 2) This is rediculous, one > nurse to eight patients without even an aide.  In critical care areas I hear 
> similar comments.  I do not feel there is a "shortage of nurses", there is a 
> shortage of working nurses.  When a local hospital paid twenty-five million to 
> build an ortho clinic with olympic size pool and computerized gym, I dont see 
> where there is a shortage of funds to pay the nurses.  Our government would be 
> best served to pay nurses and not schools.
> 
> Thanks for letting me vent my 2 cents worth and happy flying!
> 
> Kuby
> 

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