Medic2RN_

Yeah! It would be nice if we got longer than 30 min (if you can get away that long) for lunch. Able to hydrate and use bathroom regularly. They tell us if we feel sick call out. But only allowed to call out twice a year LOL. They tell us to hydrate and be healthy. But no time to hydrate. Or no drinks allowed in the station. It's like......???????

Okay - so a little about me before I begin. I'm a millennial. 1994. I'm a paramedic and I'm taking pre-reqs for nursing. I say this, because I work with some younger nurses (I would like less than 28 years old) that act this way. They are genuinely surprised they have to work hard or so things for themselves, and try to push it off to others (or me). A big sense of entitlement is present with the "new" nurses, and I feel like the foundation of caring for people was somehow lost here. A lot of new nurses I know are going to get their NP because they don't want to work on patients or bedside anymore. I also know a lot who have chosen Lab or research. I don't really know what's to blame for this new mindset though.... I'm thinking it is the reality that they will be working physically hard for the rest of their lives, or they want holidays off. Who knows.

Thank you for explaining to me this not only in a nice way but making a good picture of it. I've had a few people on here get NASTY with me when I don't think I really deserved it. Thank you for sending me luck! You too! Everyone needs it in this line of work !!!!!

So, in my application it said : requirements, paramedic license of ____ state. Acls. PALS. NRP. I'm allowed to do other things that CNA's are not allowed to do in this ER. Let me clarify myself again, I don't have a problem doing my job. I have a problem with running ragged, as another member said, while someone sits on their phone viability on Facebook or gossips to another coworker about something while telling me to do this and do that. I understand what a nurse does. Not first hand, but my boyfriend is a nurse and I understand the amount of charting and busywork that comes with it.

Thank you!!!!!

Usually Triage/do vitals when they first come in. IV's. Blood work. Help hold down to give shots. Let me clarify. I don't have a problem doing vitals and triaging and IV's. (I have PALS NRP and ACLS) during times when we get a rescue and do the EKG, all of that stuff. I do assess and hand off to the nurse and they choose either to assess for themselves or take what I give them. I don't have a problem doing my job, I love kids and I love my job. (My unit doesn't even transfer a lot. It's mostly kids with just fever or something else like strep) it just bothers me when I'm used like a pawn and I'm not called by my job title. It bothers me even more when people are sitting around gossiping and 4 nurses are telling me at once to recheck vitals and do a splint or whatever while they're all sitting, talking, gossiping. I think what I was posting didn't get accross to some people. I think whoever it is. The paramedic, CNA, MD whatever all of us need to work together. I shouldn't be abused and neither should the nurse by the doctor. I'm only one person. I can't do 4 kids vital signs at once and do this line for one kid and this other thing. It would just be nicer if one of them did like a part of that so I'm not running around like a crazy person.

I am a paramedic in the hospital. That is my job title.

Hi everyone! So, to cut to the chase, here it is: I work in a PEDS ER as a Paramedic. Going to school to apply to nursing at this time. This is my issue: im approaching 12 weeks employment. And I love my job, there's just one problem; I feel like I'm constantly underappreciated and everyone's little toy. All the nurses can be sitting on their phones or something and they're like do vitals on this patients. Do this. Do that. I need this. I need that. When I need a little help too you know. Also I wipe down the beds before and after patients and it really aggravates me when I'm busy with patients in the triage area and i walk back and find dirty rooms. WHAT WERE YOU DOING? Sometimes I just feel like I'm constantly being pulled. They won't do their own vitals. Or even wipe down a bed or table. They won't EVER do crutches or splints. I enjoy my job but sometimes I get extremely overwhelmed when all these nurses are sending me to do things while they're sitting down. Mean while, I barely sit, if I'm drinking water it never fails for someone to tell me to do something. They all get to eat their lunch at a reasonable time and here I am waiting till 2:30 or so to eat because I'm just too busy to break away. It's really aggravating me. It makes me think, you're a nurse, but you can't do these small things? Or is it that they think they are above taking vitals or doing splints. They also refer to me as a nurses aid, when I am a PARAMEDIC. I have a license. I went to school for this. How do I handle all of this?

Don't know, but I see a lot of people trying to squeeze what they can out of their Obama care. I love our new president. MAGA!

Thank you so much!!!! Will definitely go by this

Hey guys! I'm currently a paramedic pursuing a career in nursing through a paramedic-RN transitional bridge, but I am still doing my pre requisites. I start my first paramedic job in a pediatric ER and I am a little nervous..... Any advice for working with children? General advice overall with starting a new job? Thanks!