Advanced Practice in EMS | We're more than just EMS-Technicians
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The Advanced Practice Paramedic is a physician extender capable of extensive advanced patient care interventions for critical, emergent, and urgent patients. This individual possesses the complex knowledge and advanced interventional skills necessary to provide physician extension at the patient’s side, allowing their physician medical program director the ability to have physician level care extended to the scene of any emergency, through the hands, eyes, and ears of the AP-NRP or 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.
A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a nurse who has advanced clinical training and graduate level education. NPs perform exams, diagnose/treat diseases, and prescribe medication.
Physician Assistants (PAs) are prepared academically and clinically to provide healthcare services in collaboration with a supervising doctor of allopathic or osteopathic medicine.
Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) include the Physician Assistant (PA-C), Nurse Practitioner (NP), Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) & Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA).
Paramedicine is the Physician-directed practice of Medicine at the intersection of healthcare, emergency management, public health, and public safety by way of Emergency Medical Services.
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