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For the years I rode ambulance calls I kept my EMT current while as a attendant or driver for twenty some years. Since then I have kept taking EMT refresher for my protection if I come up on something and be legal if something came up about what happen.
I have asked people from the state EMS office if I could just take First Responder because I am not working on a ambulance anymore. They told me I can not take training below my level of training.
Since I have not been on the ambulance alot of things has changed about ambulance reports and other things I have know idea about.
I just took a online training required class about ambulance refusals and if you don't pass you have to be retrained becaue you have EMT but I have not been on a ambulance in over ten years or more to do a refusal report.
When I joined in the 70s I was trained in American Red Cross Advanced First Aid and CPR. It was a few years before I took EMT.
Now I question what do I really need to beable to do and meet standards in our county and my own dept even thou I am a administrative and life member with 30 years of service. Only reason I stopped riding ambulance and fire calls was because I got discouraged over actions of members of my dept at that time over a ambulance call and things that I felt hindered my use on calls.
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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Sounds like bureaucratic BS to me. We have had several former paramedics who gave up their license and now operate as EMTs. Never seen or heard of anything saying you have to keep your current level of training.
I have asked people from the state EMS office if I could just take First Responder because I am not working on a ambulance anymore. They told me I can not take training below my level of training.
Perhaps the question wasn't really understood. It sounds like you, as an EMT, are asking to take training as a First Responder. Whereas perhaps, you need to give up your EMT license in order to be relicensed as First Responder.
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Permalink Reply by ashfire on
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The biggest problem about letting my certifcation lapse will be having to retake training which could be more hours than I had began with. When I took EMT the first time it was 84 hours. Today its close to 200 hours. As for First Responder I hope that its taught in my county and the time and place I have to attend a class.
EMS training in our county is not like it was in the past few years. There is not enough instructors and locations. The past few classes I have taken were in another county and now our county has said no more of those classes because the training and equipment is not the same as our county uses. Hard to believe training is different in counties in the same state.
I had to get extintions to keep current until I could get into a class that was not full or canceled because people dropped out or never showed for the first class.
We have to renew every three years. In some states I heard they renew in five or take classes which are added to the keep them current and just have to test for it.
I attend siminars during our state convention which gives you credits for recertifcations but you have to have a number of credits just before you recertify. If they are too spaced out they don't count.
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