Can you be a flight medic if you have your nremt-b? Do you have to have a B.S?!
Question: Can you be a flight medic if you have your nremt-b!? Do you have to have a B!.S!?
Grrrr, it's taking too freaking long to be a flight nurse, and I want to start saving lives NOW!!!!!! What's the fastest way!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Quick Answer:
By definition a flight medic is a paramedic and an NREMT-B is a basic, so no!.
Now the Long One:
There is no quick way to become a flight medic, or flight nurse!. Treating patients in air transport requires you to be experienced (usually 3-5 years on the ground) and have a high degree of training beyond what a regular paramedic or nurse would do!.
Check out these resources:
http://www!.flightparamedic!.org
http://www!.naemt!.org/aboutEMSAndCareers/!.!.!.
http://www!.astna!.org/faq!.html
Don't know how far into the process of becoming a flight nurse you are, but if this is what you really want to do, then you should stick with it!. Hope this helps!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
By definition a flight medic is a paramedic and an NREMT-B is a basic, so no!.
Now the Long One:
There is no quick way to become a flight medic, or flight nurse!. Treating patients in air transport requires you to be experienced (usually 3-5 years on the ground) and have a high degree of training beyond what a regular paramedic or nurse would do!.
Check out these resources:
http://www!.flightparamedic!.org
http://www!.naemt!.org/aboutEMSAndCareers/!.!.!.
http://www!.astna!.org/faq!.html
Don't know how far into the process of becoming a flight nurse you are, but if this is what you really want to do, then you should stick with it!. Hope this helps!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I know a company that wanted to hire me as an EMT-B, but you had to be an EMT a certain number or years!. Try private transport companies (like inter facility traumas or caths!.)
Good luck! And it depends on your state for its rules and regs and also the company!. You might have to get a basic to intermediate course to be successful!. And also, consider doing it as an internship kinda thing, (without being paid) to lead to a paying job later!.
Oh, and to answer your question, the fastest way is MOST likely to become an EMT-P, thats a 2 year course in most places, but the school part is only a year, with the "street time" being the next year, ask some flight companies if you can do your internship for medic on the medivac instead of the ground!.
Best of luck, you are braver than I am! :-D (The ground rigs are fine, I don't want to be in the air, LoL!.)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Good luck! And it depends on your state for its rules and regs and also the company!. You might have to get a basic to intermediate course to be successful!. And also, consider doing it as an internship kinda thing, (without being paid) to lead to a paying job later!.
Oh, and to answer your question, the fastest way is MOST likely to become an EMT-P, thats a 2 year course in most places, but the school part is only a year, with the "street time" being the next year, ask some flight companies if you can do your internship for medic on the medivac instead of the ground!.
Best of luck, you are braver than I am! :-D (The ground rigs are fine, I don't want to be in the air, LoL!.)Www@Answer-Health@Com
There are alot of factors that go into it, depends on your state and if your looking to work on a private or state provided bird!. The two helocopter's my town in NJ (North star and airone) have a paramedic and a flight nurse!. So according to that you don't need to be a registered nurse to be on the helicopter!.
A flight medic does varie from a regular ground medic tho!. They actually have a higher standard of care and are able to do a bit more but not too much more!. Some air ambulances have a very strict standards and very high training to work on board the bird!. Hope thats what you were looking forWww@Answer-Health@Com
A flight medic does varie from a regular ground medic tho!. They actually have a higher standard of care and are able to do a bit more but not too much more!. Some air ambulances have a very strict standards and very high training to work on board the bird!. Hope thats what you were looking forWww@Answer-Health@Com