EMT Basic Salaries

[Carlos Danger]

Are we talking optometrist or ophthalmologist? One is a physician, the other isn't.

Likely neither is current or confident in their resuscitation skills, though. "Physician" does not equal "omnipotent infallibility".

sometimes the easy way to a title without doing some time in clinicals or the hands on experience does not prepare you for reality and it does not matter what the salary is.

[cough]dnps[/cough]

The DNP's I know are all excellent and well prepared for "reality". I'm sure there are some "unprepared" NP's and CRNA's though, just like there are some "unprepared" MD's.

In actual everyday practice, the biggest difference I see between MD's and DNP's is that the DNP's don't insist on being referred to as "doctor".

The only advice that I have is get your Paramedic.

While I went to paramedic school, I worked as an EMT-B for I think $8.30 per hour....about $.50 or so above minimum wage at the time. This was doing mostly 911 for a busy private service in a medium-large city in the northeast.

When I graduated with my paramedic, I got a raise to $9.50 an hour. No extra money for NREMT-P, which I did on my own shortly after I got my state card (was not required by the state).

A little less than 2 years later I took a job as a flight paramedic, where I was bumped up to $12 an hour. I felt rich.

 

[ffemt8978]

Thread closed since it continues to go off topic after two warnings.