Recent content by Brydandon

Copy that thank you. The advice I was given gave the impression that EMTs could be held liable for whatever goes down on the gurney of we do not fully transfer the patient over to the hospital or next level of care. I appreciate this. Thanks for the follow up.

Phlebotomists taking blood, Nurses adding IVs and setting up drips on Gurney, Radiologists taking X-Rays with mobile carts, RTs setting up Vents, all of this stuff without transfer of care... Personally I am wondering if I am still following sound advice from my instructor to not allow...

I've been noticing out here in Los Angeles County that hospital ER nurses are doing procedures to patients on gurneys that anchor the EMTs to slickly turn a drop off to the ER into a Wait and Return. My EMT instructor long ago stated that this is not supposed to be going down, and that the...

My grandmother said that this was the same exact argument they had with the job of Nurse. Before there was the one title of Nurse that ruled Queen of the hospital setting, now the title Nurse has a good number of sub-branches, LVN/LPN, RN, BSN, Nurse Practitioner, etc. Even succumbing to the...

Ahhhh... I see. Thank you for taking that time to dive deeper into cross referencing the situation. Much appreciated.

This is my first time hearing about such a delayed effect with a 5150 hold. Perhaps it's because when I normally interact with holds its straight to an LPS facility. The 5150 holds itself doesn't break that concept down as you have broke it down to me, even in all the fine print the 5150 has on...

So I picked up a patient from a non-psych medical only hospital here in Southern California. The patient was in the hospital for a week due to an OD, and I noticed that the 5150 hold date was written that week. So I ask the head nurse/case manager if there was a 5250 hold in place. Because it...