Paramedic Role

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In this essay the essayist will discourse just a two of the many various professional of health services and their training, practice requirements, and practice settings. There are many roles that keep the health care organization flowing, for this essay we will narrow it down by utilizing one word: professionals, characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession; exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace ("Professionals," 1995, p. 536).
For the reason that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is the background of the author of this document will start with these professionals, as it would seem that the paramedic is a professional that is overlooked in the system. …show more content…

At this level, these persons are being able to carry out the duties of EMTs and EMTs A/I, paramedics are also responsible for administration of any prehospital medications orally, intramuscular, or intravenously, they interpret electrocardiograms (EKGs) with the ability to use cardiac monitors along with other complex equipment. At the paramedic level individuals can place advance airways such as endotracheal tubes. In today’s prehospital world you will find many paramedics that have been grandfathered in today world that is now requiring an associate’s degree. Many of the pre-requisite classes taken by paramedics are the same as those taken by nurses in relation to math and science …show more content…

Although there are several educational levels of nursing for this dissertation we will just be addressing Registered Nurses. Although there are still Associate Degree or ASN programs available in the United States, many states have law makers that are pushing for nurses to have a bachelorette degree to maintain their license, “legislators in New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island have propositioned making it a statewide requirement” (Painter, 2014). The 2010 “Future of Nursing” report by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine recommended that 80 percent of U.S. nurses have bachelor’s degrees by 2020 and that the number of nurses with a doctor of nursing practice be

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