EMT becoming a nurse

[emtj]

So I am an EMT and cpr instructor becoming a nurse just curious if anyone has been through that and if they think being an emt will help with nursing school.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

You'll have a great advantage in certain areas.

What you will have to do is bite your tongue really hard when instructors are wrong, and you will also have to accept that, even though nurses have a higher level of licensure they have far less autonomy to act without orders. Even in the ED a nurse doesn't intubate without an order, create an airway without an order, adminster atropine without an order - your scope will be lessened while it epands, if that makes sense.

Good luck!

[WorkinTheStreets]

SuesquatchRN you forgot my favorite....unable to administer oxygen above 2LPM/NC without an order. (At least in Jersey anyway)

[EMTrn2be]

I agree with most of the reply to this post. I have been an EMT-IV since 21 (5years now) Currently in finishing my pre-reqs for the Nursing program.. The first few semesters you feel like you have heared everything before and things go smoothly.. Huge advantage! Your peers ask you questions and look to you for help in study groups/clinicals... However, this feeling of being 'head of the class' quickly fades away and you feel like your at the same level of everyone else fast... (struggling and staying up long hours of studying)

All in all, it's good to have it before, due to the experience and gaining confidence.. Just don't get too confident.. The schooling gets hard, but you will be fine.

Best of luck to you!

[ICUterry]

Shhh scene safety and bsi.. I'm a EMT-P .. EMT I believe is more than a CNA.. You critical thinking surpasses CNA level.. I don't think they know about diabetic kedo acidosis how to manage a patient with a c spine hypovolemic shock etc.. Medical trauma patients.. CNA never taught me that.. We have general knowlede for lot of situations. I'm not in the program but II believe a EMT basic is stronger than CNA and I'd say paramedic is comparable to Lvn. It's cool you posted this though I didn't know there were so many emt

[Hmackey3]

Hi there! I am not sure if you are still on this board or not but I wanted to follow up with you. I am in similar shoes as you were a few years ago. I currently have my BS in marketing and I am looking to taking an EMT program in a few months as a way to gage whether or not I want to go back to school for my nursing degree. I was just curiosity how everything is going for you and if you ended up going back to school for nursing? Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated!!!