Recent content by bleeintn

Hardly. MAST and EOA/EGTA (the original blind airways) were taught in my basic EMT class, in 92. IV therapy was, at the time, a separate class, but was below the level of paramedic. Likewise, "rescue" isn't paramedic level training. It's taken for granted, now, that every Tennessee EMT patch...

I realize this is a VERY old thread now, but I wanted to comment. Went I went to IV school, in 94, patches said both "IV THERAPY" AND "IV TECH" on them, depending on where you bought them. There was/is no standardized patch. The original intention of the patch, was to have the basic EMT...

The original quote said nurse CAPACITIES, not work AS a nurse. Before our local ED was bought by corporate, we had about 10 FT, PT and PRN medics working, in the ED. There were plenty of times, we had one charge RN and the rest were Medics. The only "official" limitation, was that we could not...