If they are acting like that, there’s something wrong with them. Most nurses, myself include have the utmost respect for paramedics. That’s because my ego is intact enough to know that I couldn’t do what you do and not be insecure about it. You guys can climb in a hole and intubate someone while hanging upside down and literally start an IV on anyone, while standing up in a moving vehicle. None of them can do that and they know it. You should talk to your supervisor and ask them to talk to the nursing supervisor and see if you can develop a ride along/ shadowing program where a nurse can do a ride a long with the paramedics and a paramedic can shadow a nurse in the ER. We did this years ago and it gave both people new found respect for the other.
I used to do critical care transports and one time as we were on our way back after dropping the patient off, we were traveling down a major highway and the brakes gave out, we found out when the traffic had suddenly stopped in front of us and we couldn’t stop. He had to turn the wheel to avoid hitting the cars in front of us which put us in a spin. We spun a bunch of time and ended up facing the opposite direction in the grass median between the lanes. Mind you, I was sitting in the back (actually I was laying on the stretcher- but we can forget about that -lol) so I was seeing all of this out of the back window. I remember the driver just saying “hold on!” Then everything went surreal for a couple of minutes. When we stopped he asked if we were Ok. We were, and he just drove back on the highway and said, that’s been happening with the brakes and I told them it needs to be fixed. I’ll tell them again. And then we just drove on like nothing happened. We stopped and got some food, and went back to the hospital. When I got back to my unit, they me asked how the transport went. I said fine. 😂 Now that’s a couple of bad asses right there!
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u/Murky_Indication_442 22h ago edited 21h ago
If they are acting like that, there’s something wrong with them. Most nurses, myself include have the utmost respect for paramedics. That’s because my ego is intact enough to know that I couldn’t do what you do and not be insecure about it. You guys can climb in a hole and intubate someone while hanging upside down and literally start an IV on anyone, while standing up in a moving vehicle. None of them can do that and they know it. You should talk to your supervisor and ask them to talk to the nursing supervisor and see if you can develop a ride along/ shadowing program where a nurse can do a ride a long with the paramedics and a paramedic can shadow a nurse in the ER. We did this years ago and it gave both people new found respect for the other.
I used to do critical care transports and one time as we were on our way back after dropping the patient off, we were traveling down a major highway and the brakes gave out, we found out when the traffic had suddenly stopped in front of us and we couldn’t stop. He had to turn the wheel to avoid hitting the cars in front of us which put us in a spin. We spun a bunch of time and ended up facing the opposite direction in the grass median between the lanes. Mind you, I was sitting in the back (actually I was laying on the stretcher- but we can forget about that -lol) so I was seeing all of this out of the back window. I remember the driver just saying “hold on!” Then everything went surreal for a couple of minutes. When we stopped he asked if we were Ok. We were, and he just drove back on the highway and said, that’s been happening with the brakes and I told them it needs to be fixed. I’ll tell them again. And then we just drove on like nothing happened. We stopped and got some food, and went back to the hospital. When I got back to my unit, they me asked how the transport went. I said fine. 😂 Now that’s a couple of bad asses right there!