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YES!!! What a brilliant idea. I think you should go for it.
How is additional knowledge and training a bad thing? Please correct me if I am wrong, but I trust that you are old enough to understand the difference between EMT duties and nursing duties.
What a GREAT way to spend your summer. Go for it!
(I am sort of jealous. But you inspired me to perhaps get my own EMT cert!)
Thanks for the input, guys!! I think I am going to go for it.. not this summer, but next... I mean the field experience should get me "in the game" or a little taste of the mindset of a field hospital... barely, but at least a taste!
Instead of EMT - B (basic), if I can, should I just go for EMT - P (paramedic)... of course time and schedule-pending with nursing school and Army training, or would that be too much considering I am not going to be a paramedic but a nurse?
Instead of EMT - B (basic), if I can, should I just go for EMT - P (paramedic)... of course time and schedule-pending with nursing school and Army training, or would that be too much considering I am not going to be a paramedic but a nurse?
Not sure of how the schools work where you but in CT you have to be an EMT-B or EMT-I for a certain period of time (usual time frame is 1-2 yrs) before you can be admitted to the paramedic program.
Most paramedic programs here are degree (associates degree) programs and will take 2 yrs to complete. So, if your area has similar requirements you wouldn't be able to do a EMT-P course over the summer.
I am an EMT-B and my schooling and experience as an EMT did give me a leg up when I started LPN school, and continues to help now that i'm bridging to RN.
If you have th time and funds to do an EMT-B over the summer..go for it. It can't hurt.
You could do nursing school and paramedic school at the same time. Granted, it wasn't nursing school, but I got my first bachelor's degree at the same time I was going through paramedic school. Went to a university during the day for the degree classes, went to a community college at night for the paramedic courses.
keegs13
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Hi Y'all!
Since you are all so helpful with all of my other questions, I am asking for opinions here....
What do you think about going to summer classes (community college) to get my EMT - B cert. the summer between my freshman and sophomore year of nursing school (University of Kentucky)?
Why get the cert?
To be able to work on campus as a possible EMT while getting extra medical training. Before anyone says that a nurse's atmosphere and an EMT's are very different, I understand that, and I am going to become an Army nurse (Army ROTC and nursing), talk about a different atmosphere from any other imaginable!
Simply wondering if it would be worth my time, in your opinions! Thanks for the input!