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i am in oregon i have found this http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/tb/index.shtml there is a ppt for "TB Control in Correctional Facilities" i cant find anything about the levels of health care practitioners and who can and cant do it. What is P&P?

Your first paragraph i think explains everything well. We don't have a first responder...i have had poeple transported before, we have the local fire search and rescue serve the correctional facility for any ambulance transports. I am confused a little bit though, I am hired as a EMT-B, how can...

Its a county correctional facility, not federal facility. We do receive federal inmates while they are being held sometimes.

I am hired as a EMT-B...i don't understand why my scope of practice changes though nor my protection? The correctional facility contracts out the medical work to a private company. Its is the company i work for, essentially i am a contractor for the county correctional facility.

i work in a correctional facility

http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/tb/index.shtml I found this now.. lol sigh

Oregon DHS EMS doesn't mention anything anywhere about TB planting or testing..so as far as the state goes i am assuming its not allowed. Now if the doc i work for says its okay you can go ahead and do it, then can i? (can the doc take me outside the dept. EMS protocol?) Also, are their special...

Hi thats what i have heard and am pretty sure it is true. But i cannot find it in writing...where can i find out for sure?????

Yea i agree w the different types of training w paramedics and basics. That is why i as so alarmed when they wanted me to start doing it. I don't have any problem reading the skin tests ( not invasive). I work in corrections so things are done a little differently and it just seems like things...

i feel the same way. The only training i ever got was from a paramedic who also works at the same place i do, she learned it from the nurse who used to work their....you are right. EMS does not place or read TB skins tests but the facility i work at wants me to but i am hired as a EMT-B...so...

i didn't think so. I work in a clinic type setting so i don't work that much emergency type (no ambulances or transports to hospitals) stuff, mostly medical stuff. I didn't think this would be allowed i have my Oregon protocols here but am still having difficulty in figured out if i am allowed...

I am a basic in Oregon and the facility i am with wants me to start placing TB skin tests and reading them. Am i allowed to do this under my EMT scope of practice? I don't recall anything about TB testing....i remember we can assist paramedics with stuff like EKG'S and other stuff...