TransportJockey
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Being a hospital tech does not require an EMT-b cert, does it ? It is a related field that people with EMT-b certs can fill, but so could a CNA with a phlebotomy cert, or a "medical assistant"....
The position of Emergency Medical Technician is for EMS agencies. People with that training when as an ER tech or a medical assistant in a doctors office are not employed as EMTs and may have those jobs without an EMTb cert?
Am I wrong?
And I thought those camp and amusement park jobs are limited to CPR and first aid, that you can not function as a full EMT ?
Am I wrong on that ?
Wrong on almost all points. Some hospitals have a positions of ER EMT (CO and TX love that title), and some hospitals hire Paramedics to work as techs (with the job title of Paramedic) and function at full scope or higher. A lot of amusement parks operate full ALS level coverage IIRC. (Lucid, refresh my memory on yours, but I seem to remember you saying you had medics. And the big parks like Disney and Universal have full skills covered).
You seem to be mistaking NY for the rule in EMS, rather than a horrible exception