Yeah: don’t. Finish nursing school, and then go to medic school if the spirit still moves you. But taking two semesters off mid-nursing school is a fucking terrible idea.
Don't, just finish nursing school and get your RN, you can always go back and challenge the NREMT-P later as an RN as it's much easier than trying to go from Medic to RN vice versa.
You can always get additional certs/specialties and work prehospital as well. Nursing is great in the fact you can literally work anything and anywhere.
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My pathway was this: WFR---> useless degree ---> EMT ---> Navy Corpsman ---> RN. Having run the course, go RN. You are wasting your time bouncing around
Current firefighter/EMT about to graduate nursing school. Way more options for nursing and money, you can challenge medic later on. Do not quit for the love of all things holy
Finish nursing school, work for three years and go to the RN to Paramedic bridge class through Creighton in 15 days plus your Internship. One of the medics I work with did it (after 17 year ER, ICU) and she’s now 10 years as a medic on top of that, still does ICU. Way more expedient.
You may as well finish your RN first. I'm sure many people can do both,l, but protocols and scope of practice greatly differ at times and being new in both fields you may find yourself confused at some of the worded questions during both testing within the programs.
i mean u don’t have to be a medic to enjoy the prehospital scene. what would probably be best is getting ur nursing degree, starting icu, getting ur ccrn and doing like flight or something
Finish your nursing school and then you should peruse the paramedic program if you’re still interested. Unless you’re just doing prerequisites. Then it’s a little different. Nursing pays better and there are services that will allow you to act as a nurse on an ambulance.
My thinking on it, is switching gears for a little while. I’m young, and my nursing school goes year round. So pausing for 2 semesters doesn’t seem like the biggest deal. Right now I’m trying to weigh if it’s only worth getting my AEMT and then just finishing my RN while working at my local ED.
I work on an ambulance service that hires nurses on our critical care truck and those nurses worked usually in ED and started to hate there job in the hospital and moved to the pre hospital side, I even work with a ex flight nurse who wanted to quite health care all together before switching to 911 ambulances calls
Yeah: don’t. Finish nursing school, and then go to medic school if the spirit still moves you. But taking two semesters off mid-nursing school is a fucking terrible idea.
I second this.
I third this.
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I fifth this. My sister took off just one semester to go get her medic and it screw her over in the long run.
Finish nursing school
Don't, just finish nursing school and get your RN, you can always go back and challenge the NREMT-P later as an RN as it's much easier than trying to go from Medic to RN vice versa. You can always get additional certs/specialties and work prehospital as well. Nursing is great in the fact you can literally work anything and anywhere.
Can nurses still challenge the NREMT? I can't find anything saying they can still.
It varies from states, you probably need a bridge program of some sort but its significantly easier than a Medic trying to challenge the NCLEX.
Paramedic turned nurse. Get your RN.
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Yea of course! You can pm me.
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Don’t, finish nursing and If you then want go to medic school. Finish one thing at a time don’t take on two very draining programs.
My pathway was this: WFR---> useless degree ---> EMT ---> Navy Corpsman ---> RN. Having run the course, go RN. You are wasting your time bouncing around
Thank you man. I appreciate it sincerely.
Nursing school.
Current firefighter/EMT about to graduate nursing school. Way more options for nursing and money, you can challenge medic later on. Do not quit for the love of all things holy
Finish nursing school, work for three years and go to the RN to Paramedic bridge class through Creighton in 15 days plus your Internship. One of the medics I work with did it (after 17 year ER, ICU) and she’s now 10 years as a medic on top of that, still does ICU. Way more expedient.
You may as well finish your RN first. I'm sure many people can do both,l, but protocols and scope of practice greatly differ at times and being new in both fields you may find yourself confused at some of the worded questions during both testing within the programs.
i mean u don’t have to be a medic to enjoy the prehospital scene. what would probably be best is getting ur nursing degree, starting icu, getting ur ccrn and doing like flight or something
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a nurse 🥲
Finish your nursing school and then you should peruse the paramedic program if you’re still interested. Unless you’re just doing prerequisites. Then it’s a little different. Nursing pays better and there are services that will allow you to act as a nurse on an ambulance.
Pretty sure you can challenge a paramedic license with a nurse cert BTW
Doesn't mean you should however. Being a nurse does not make you qualified to be a paramedic, and vice versa.
My thinking on it, is switching gears for a little while. I’m young, and my nursing school goes year round. So pausing for 2 semesters doesn’t seem like the biggest deal. Right now I’m trying to weigh if it’s only worth getting my AEMT and then just finishing my RN while working at my local ED.
I work on an ambulance service that hires nurses on our critical care truck and those nurses worked usually in ED and started to hate there job in the hospital and moved to the pre hospital side, I even work with a ex flight nurse who wanted to quite health care all together before switching to 911 ambulances calls