Letting my medic cert go, is there a transport RN cert I can get?

qanik · Aug 20, 2004

My medic certification is going to lapse this year, I just don't have the energy to go to the audit reviews to get my hours. I have all and more of my education hours; I'm just lacking in my A and R hours. I am going to start school this fall toward getting my BSN, so I don't really care about doing the medic thing anyway. My question is, is there a certification for nurses that allows them to take care of patients in the back of ambulances? Forgive my stupidity on this, but I'd really like to know. I really have no desire to work the ambulance anymore, but I might like to apply if the manager's position ever came available, and I know being able to work in the back of an ambulance would be a requirement. Sorry this post is rather rambling, it's 4am. Thanks, Pam

I am not sure what State you are in. Some States have the PHRN- Pre Hospital RN. This allows you to function in an ambulance in a capacity that the State determines. Our State it is the same as a medic. A word of caution. I was carrying both my medic and PHRN certs for years and decided if the State sees them as one and the same (even the system #'s were the same)Then why keep paying for both. I dropped my medic cert. Several years later I was planning to move and the State I was looking at did not recognize the PHRN. I thought it would be simple to get back my medic cert. It proved otherwise. I had to sit in the EMT-B class again and then challenge the NREMT-P to get it back. It was expensive and time consuming.

Hope this helps

Qanik

MrsWampthang, BSN, RN · Aug 21, 2004

Thanks for the info!

Pam

Trauma Columnist · Aug 21, 2004

I practice in Illinois and have a PHRN. I volunteer with my rural sqaud and love it!

rn29306 · Sep 16, 2004

Before starting anesthesia school last year, I worked on a mobile ICU in Atlanta, GA after completing a program called CCEMT-P (critical care emergency medical transport-provider). It is not nursing based, it is open to critical care nurses (both ED and ICU), RTs, and specialty trained paramedics. I belive the class was 80 hours, meeting twice a week. All aspects of transport were covered, including a fair amount of flight. Both trauma and ICU transports were covered. I believe the course was $800 for a 3 year time peroid. The course is put on by affiliates with the University of Baltimore-Maryland County Hospital. Our sponsor was the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. Check out the following addresses and see if this course is something you might like.

The Medical College of Georgia

http://www.mcg.edu/ems/ccemtp.html

or follow the link to Puckett EMS and go to links page:

http://www.puckettems.com

rjflyn, ASN, RN · Sep 20, 2004

Personally I wouldnt let it go- been there and done that. Alot of flight programs require their nurses to obtain paramedic certification. Most often its because a requirement of the state EMS boards of the state they are operating in. You dont say what state you are in, can you make it inactive. Fortunatly the state I maintain mine in only requires CE hrs and nothing more.

RJ:rolleyes:

paranurse · Oct 21, 2004

My medic certification is going to lapse this year, I just don't have the energy to go to the audit reviews to get my hours. I have all and more of my education hours; I'm just lacking in my A and R hours. I am going to start school this fall toward getting my BSN, so I don't really care about doing the medic thing anyway. My question is, is there a certification for nurses that allows them to take care of patients in the back of ambulances? Forgive my stupidity on this, but I'd really like to know. I really have no desire to work the ambulance anymore, but I might like to apply if the manager's position ever came available, and I know being able to work in the back of an ambulance would be a requirement. Sorry this post is rather rambling, it's 4am. Thanks, Pam

ASTNA may be helpful. We are working on a speciality rating for transport RN.