Looking for ideas on how you utilized/integrate medical professionals in your 1st Responder.
Small Rural FD. Have also provided 1st Responder/Medical for many years. At one time EMT-B, dropped to 1st Responder a several years ago due to lose of trained EMT. Typically 12-15 med. calls/year. Need to increase our pool of manpower to keep (or improve) or service. Training new EMT is expensive and as we operated on $15k/year + grants (Fire and everything else) $ are a bit tight.
We have at least one ARPN, two RN (surgical), two LPN residing in our Fire District that likely would participate. Have not tapped them as first 1st Responder (new idea). Anyone in similar situation and how may utilized/integrated such trained professional med personnel in their 1st Resp service? Problems/issues with utilizing "higher" level personnel?
We have limited ability to buy $500 Minitor pagers. And don't need to have 4 nurses at every call (of the few we have). Establish an on call schedule?
Small Rural FD. Have also provided 1st Responder/Medical for many years. At one time EMT-B, dropped to 1st Responder a several years ago due to lose of trained EMT. Typically 12-15 med. calls/year. Need to increase our pool of manpower to keep (or improve) or service. Training new EMT is expensive and as we operated on $15k/year + grants (Fire and everything else) $ are a bit tight.
We have at least one ARPN, two RN (surgical), two LPN residing in our Fire District that likely would participate. Have not tapped them as first 1st Responder (new idea). Anyone in similar situation and how may utilized/integrated such trained professional med personnel in their 1st Resp service? Problems/issues with utilizing "higher" level personnel?
We have limited ability to buy $500 Minitor pagers. And don't need to have 4 nurses at every call (of the few we have). Establish an on call schedule?
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