Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Paramedic Practitioner
Advanced Practice in EMS
Advanced Practice Paramedic (APP)
Paramedic Practitioner
The Advanced Practice Paramedic is a physician extender capable of extensive advanced patient care interventions in critical and emergent patients. This individual possesses the complex knowledge and advanced interventional skills necessary to provide physician extension to the patient’s side, allowing their physician medical program director (MPD) the ability to have physician level care extended to the scene of any emergency, through the hand, eyes, and ears of the APP.
The Paramedic Practitioner is synonymous with the proposed EMS APP (Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, or Advanced Practice Paramedic) - a graduate-prepared paramedic having completed a Graduate Paramedic Program (GPP) who has advanced practice authorization.
The EMS-PA and EMS-NP are considered Paramedic Practitioners.
