RE: stable neonate transports

["Jeff Brosius" <reno316@hotmail.com>]

>I am talking about primary caregivers such as an RN.  Of course there are
>MD's RT's etc, but I have never seen a neonatal transport team not consist
>of some type of nurse.  In addition, I have never seen a paramedic or EMT
>take an NICU assignment in a hospital.

I've asked our local pedi-hospitals (we've got three, by the way,) to allow 
me and my fellow medics to spend time in the ICUs, ORs, and ER to get peds 
experience (tubes, IVs, assessments, interventions, and the like.)  
Resoundingly, the answer has been "We don't allow paramedics to provide care 
to our patients...no."  The MDs don't have a problem with the idea, but the 
nursing staff does (and those who think the nurses don't run the hospital 
are deluding themselves.)  Tell me this makes sense?

>I'm not getting into the argument of who can spit farther.

Good thing, too...we southerners do love our chewing tobacco.

P.S.  I'm dating a nurse (who's far and away smarter than I am,) so don't 
think I've anything against nurses.


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JRB

Jeff Brosius,
Paramedic, etc.
Atlanta, GA
www.prehospital-perspective.com
brosius@prehospital-perspective.com
"Somebody who thinks logically is a nice
contrast to the real world."


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