Flight Nurse vs Flight Paramedic

hi ngt,

I am thinking of doing the heli eventually. I am also both a paramedic and RN, so is it possible to have both titles or do they perfer you be one or the other??

oh and sorry to Jeremy for breaking into your thread

Sweetooth

oh yes!
major differnce!
i was a flight paramedic for quite a while before i was a flight nurse..
truth be told.. the flight paramedic has a more difficult job than the nurse, makes less money, and in most cases, has a worse seat on the chopper....
flight paramedics were around way before flight nurses...
im now a flight nurse but listen, flight medics are just as good! if not better!.... who am i kiddin... they r better....
as the medic on flights i dealt mostly w/ airway stuff while the nurse dealt w/ iv drugs on the iv i started..i did all the intubations and bagging and all that stuff and the nurse pushed atropine when i told them too....
well...im the nurse now, i quite often miss that job as the medic...

the nurse pushed atropine when i told them too....

the nurse pushed atropine when i told them too....
well...im the nurse now, i quite often miss that job as the medic...

I once asked a prehospital care coord why they flew a medic and RN--why not 2 RN's? She replied because nurses eat they young and it is less of a power struggle of who was in charge...a medic/RN worked together better than 2 RN's...

You've got to be kidding me! What a slap in the face to the medics who work in that system. Not to mention an extremely unprofessional remark. Having a medic as part of the team brings in the field experience most nurses do not have. I'm not "in charge" of my medic. I completely trust and respect them. By the way our medics refer to the nurses assigned with them as "my nurse". It's not a hierarchy thing it's more a term of endearment. That prehospital coordinator needs to be slapped (figuratively of course).