Re: Turf battles

[Ken Lawson-Williams <Macgyver@FlightMedicMail.com>]

Very well said. We can't bitch about exclusions based on laws or administrative policies that discriminate against medics in hospital setings as long as we have similar problems discriminating against RT/RN in out of hospital settings.

Fly Safe. KLW


--- "Michele Moore" <mmoore@scmc.org> wrote:
>mmmmm..Paramedics can work in Nicu, Icu , ER,  But RTS and RNS
>Can't be on scene with you.   Seems one sided.=20
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>Michele Moore RRT, EMT-P
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>>>> Ccrn2combs@aol.com 04/02/02 07:02PM >>>
>Great points Eric.=20
>How many times have you had RT's show up on scene as part of the flight cre=
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>and does it chaff you as it does me? We are basically being told we are=20
>incapabable of providing in-hospital care by some nurses and then told by=
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>those same nurses that another allied HCP can come on our scene and work in=
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>our house. Why are we cast aside while RT's are being integrated into air=
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>crews in some cases doing IVs, ECG's, Intubation's.....etc...... And oh yea=
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>I've been in the E. D.  when that code came in or that shooting victim was=
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>dropped at the doors, I was certainly capable then. ( for IVs, DFib's and=
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>Tubes)=20
>Don't mean to go off but who do they think teaches most of those ACLS, PALS=
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>and PHTLS courses?                 PARAMEDICS
>Rich Combs NREMTP, CCEMTP
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