Re: RN to Paramedic Bridge Course
It depends what kind of nursing you are comparing a paramedic to. Some types of nursing is very similar, some nothing like a paramedic. A nurse can do many more thing that a paramedic can not by definition, not necessarily out of school education/clinicals. But their license permits additional instruction after licensing to work towards specific work.
For example, a new grad nurse is eligible to learn how to scrub in the operating room (most institutions make them go to further training before doing so); a paramedic can not.
A nurse can become further trained to practice in a level one pediatric trauma ICU, a paramedic can not.
A nurse just out of school can not intubate a patient (in most states) but may be trained additionally to do so. (Intubation is not difficult, my anesthesia instructor said a monkey can do the task (intubation), it takes critical thinking to perform a good anesthetic).
We are comparing apples to oranges.
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