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Hi all,

I'm new to this site and happy to have found it. I'm currently a Paramedic full-time with a great hospital owned service in Central Illinois. We keep pretty busy and I still love the job after 12 years. I'm also an RN and haven't found an area which challenges me as much as pre-hospital, so I'm still looking. I'm very interested in Prehospital RN and would love to be part of a movement to pioneer a program in the State of Illinois. Any comments, advice, links to web-sites..etc. would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Welcome!

Wouldn't pre-hospital RNs get a lot of resistence from non-RN paramedics? Wouldn't we be stepping on their toes. Although there are probably a lot of ER nurses that would love to do that kind of nursing.

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I think there would be some resistence. But, if we play our cards right, watch our egos and use a little finesse, we could make great strides. We in EMS can be very territorial/exclusive. We feel like the majority of souls out there have no understanding of our jobs and we resent it with a passion. However, I think RN's who started out in EMS and have a love for it would fit in quite nicely.

Welcome!

Wouldn't pre-hospital RNs get a lot of resistence from non-RN paramedics? Wouldn't we be stepping on their toes. Although there are probably a lot of ER nurses that would love to do that kind of nursing.

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
hello and welcome to the wonderful family of allnurses.com. enjoy your stay, and best of luck to you. :)

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