irish_handgrenade
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Hey all Handgrenade here, I just need to vent a little about some things that been bothering me (not about this site or anyone on it) to people who might understand me. If you know me or anyone personally from these vents please don't flame me publicly, just pm me im ok with that.
Yesterday, two recruiters from one of the bigger hospitals came to my school to talk to my medic class. Apparently a hospital in Lubbock has, just this month, created a scope of practice for paramedics and EMTs to practice in the ER. I was pretty jazzed about this because I know some medics from DFW that have a pretty sweet gig working in the ER. Well this lady comes in talking about how the job they were offering the medics was titled "ERT IV" and Paramedics would be able to: start IVs, do ECGs, give medications off of a preapproved medication list, apply spints and bandages, and they would work directly under an RN. These "paramedics" would also get the opportunity to go to school and get their RN, and they would get paid a whopping $12.40 an hour.
Well then the lady opened the door to questions, and me being the big mouth that I am started off with, " why the cutoff scope of practice? why can't we practice up to our certified level? I mean with that scope of practice a medic has the same capabilities as an intermediate" The lady seemed like I had just punched her in the chest and didn't really have an answer so she kinda BSed her way around it. Well then one of the visitors said " How does that pay scale compare to the LVNs and RNs that are employed in the ER" to which she replied, " Oh well of course they make 6 to 9 dollars more than that an hour" to which I said... of course " Why?" again the woman looked attacked and then she said, " Well because we all have a 4 year degree." So I felt a little like the mutt in the corner (apparently I rolled my eyes but i don't remember that) said, " well why don't yall just hire more nurses then? I'm sorry but I don't see how you think you are gonna get any medics to agree to that kind of offer" If I had thought about it more before opening my mouth I would have realized that we have no union and they are able to get away with trying to offer people this kind of job so why not hire a medic if you can for 9 dollars an hour less than an RN who can do basically the same ammount of work.
Any way I apparently really insulted this woman by asking her questions and the school doubts that the hospital will send another recruiter out to our school, which I personally thought was childish but ya know, I may have come off a little rude but I think that my thought process was at least semi valid. anyway flame on trolls I'm sure I will get banned for this or at least made fun of but I needed someone to tell this too cuz it was bothering me.
(p.s. sorry for the lack of grammar when I start getting aggitated it kind of goes out the window.)
Yesterday, two recruiters from one of the bigger hospitals came to my school to talk to my medic class. Apparently a hospital in Lubbock has, just this month, created a scope of practice for paramedics and EMTs to practice in the ER. I was pretty jazzed about this because I know some medics from DFW that have a pretty sweet gig working in the ER. Well this lady comes in talking about how the job they were offering the medics was titled "ERT IV" and Paramedics would be able to: start IVs, do ECGs, give medications off of a preapproved medication list, apply spints and bandages, and they would work directly under an RN. These "paramedics" would also get the opportunity to go to school and get their RN, and they would get paid a whopping $12.40 an hour.
Well then the lady opened the door to questions, and me being the big mouth that I am started off with, " why the cutoff scope of practice? why can't we practice up to our certified level? I mean with that scope of practice a medic has the same capabilities as an intermediate" The lady seemed like I had just punched her in the chest and didn't really have an answer so she kinda BSed her way around it. Well then one of the visitors said " How does that pay scale compare to the LVNs and RNs that are employed in the ER" to which she replied, " Oh well of course they make 6 to 9 dollars more than that an hour" to which I said... of course " Why?" again the woman looked attacked and then she said, " Well because we all have a 4 year degree." So I felt a little like the mutt in the corner (apparently I rolled my eyes but i don't remember that) said, " well why don't yall just hire more nurses then? I'm sorry but I don't see how you think you are gonna get any medics to agree to that kind of offer" If I had thought about it more before opening my mouth I would have realized that we have no union and they are able to get away with trying to offer people this kind of job so why not hire a medic if you can for 9 dollars an hour less than an RN who can do basically the same ammount of work.
Any way I apparently really insulted this woman by asking her questions and the school doubts that the hospital will send another recruiter out to our school, which I personally thought was childish but ya know, I may have come off a little rude but I think that my thought process was at least semi valid. anyway flame on trolls I'm sure I will get banned for this or at least made fun of but I needed someone to tell this too cuz it was bothering me.
(p.s. sorry for the lack of grammar when I start getting aggitated it kind of goes out the window.)