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Again with the ignorant and uninformed comments. Utah Valley University offers a 4 year paramedic degree, with a one year branch program offered to become an RN. University of Utah has also begun a 4 year degree program in EMS and prehospital care. No one is discrediting nurses, no one is seeking their jobs this is about the ANA stop throwing a temper tantrum and work with paramedics in requiring more for prehospital care. It seems like nurses are the one who want to ride the hero train and not allow paramedics more freedom because then nurses like yourself won't get the "saves"

It seems there are just too many opinions for a pt care solution to ever be reached. Sad really.

I've recently learned more about the "turf war" going on between nurses and paramedics in emergency departments for hospitals around the country. The battle seems to be heavily focused on having paramedics become licensed instead of just certified and be able to supplement ED staffs when needed and to practice their skills in the case of an off duty emergency. The paramedics I have worked with have ample skill and knowledge to handle difficult and challenging emergency situations, why then are so many nurses opposed to advancing patient care in this regard? Isn't that what our career choices are all about in the first place?