Thursday, August 4, 2011

Is an EMT a higher level of Care than an LPN?

I have been an EMT for 5 years and have several certificates in ITLS, PEPP, AMLS, and BLS. I think that EMT are better trained in emergency care, but nurse are trained more toward looking at the patient as a whole. There are some procedures that EMT can do that i dont believe LPN can do, such as intabation with advance airways. They both give drugs, EMT is more of emergecny drugs where LPN give patients there daily drugs such as hypertension drugs, renal drugs, cardiac drugs and so on. And i hate when someone compares me to an CNA, a nurse aid cant hold a candle to the skills that an EMT has been trained in.

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