Paramedic triage

Basically, I think that if a Medic has enough training to scrape your butt off the asphalt and keep you alive on the way to the hospital then they can triage anything that walks through or is dumped at the ER door. I also agree somewhat with the post that said an EMT-B would be like having a CNA triaging. Yes, some basics are really good and know their stuff, same goes for some CNAs with ER experience. But come crunch time I'd rather have someone with more training on my team. Granted maybe there should be a short course the Medics should take to learn the ropes for triage in the hospital setting, but other than that I would be fine with it.

An EMT-Basic only has 110 hrs of classroom...

as a medic, yes I am fully able to triage in an ER as well as any RN.

I have taklen PALS and ACLS with RNs. I seem to be better in certain areas and worse in others. The RNs were much better at long term care. It wasn't close. I don't do that stuff. I was better at emeregency type stuff. Some RNs were on par with me but most weren't in the same ball park. It would seem from this expereince that I would be fine for triage in the ER.

It is simply a fact that you don't have RN after your name. It doesn't have ANYTHING to do with how good you are at the job.

So than this is a political thing has has nothing to do with whether paramedics being capable of doing triage. Your saying medics can do triage but you want an RN instead because you don't want RNs losing possible jobs. As long as we are clear on that.