S2 E14: Paramedic Practitioners (Feat. David Fifer)

The change that we're going to see in EMS is not going to be something that anyone currently working in EMS is going to see a radical implementation of.

Right.

If I graduate from EMT school today and I work my typical seven years in EMS, you know, the average provider does about seven years in EMS.

That last year that I get out is not going to look good.

I'm not going to be suddenly making more money.

The conditions are not going to be better.

We're not going to go back to 911 only, which anyone with that expectation right now is just setting themselves up for failure.

But what we're trying to do is make it so that if you...

so that your brand new child, what's your child's name? Mac.

We want Max to be able to enter a field when he is 18 or 21, depending on your state, that looks radically different than it does now.

one thing we're experiencing now is that without degrees and without higher education, people with it can just take our stuff.

And I made a reel the other day about the nurse practitioner program coming out of Houston, which I think people are under the impression that this is like a nurse practitioner on ambulances prescribing medication and stuff like that.

That's not what that is.

It's Someone who is assisting usually like in the ED or hospital in some of the logistics and management of EMS as a whole and assisting the medical director.

But that's still that's something that we're not doing.

Right.

And we do see nurses on ambulances now increasingly.

Right.

There's a very popular creator on TikTok by the name of Jenna Roxbury, who is a very well-known nurse on an ambulance serving on a 911 ambulance.

And we're seeing that a lot more.

But.

There's no EMS practitioner.

Right.

There's no one that is filling that gap that's one of our own.

Right.