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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What drives me nuts about EMT clinical hours is the long shifts where many times nothing is happening. My kid is a HS certified EMT and now a college student. Kid also works as a CMA. When working in a doctor’s office or hospital as a CMA, about 90-95% of work hours is truly clinical (hands on, all the time). With EMT, it can be 20% for some shifts yet every hour clocked in counts as clinical. At times, my kid has been getting sbux with another EMT or playing on the phone or sitting around talking and all count as clinical hours.

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But surely you realize that your kid isn't there to be getting something out of it other than playing on their phone, they are there to do the job when it needs to be done? And if there are no calls to be working on 80% of any given shift, that is just how it is? [/quote]

Of course I realize just how it is but it seems absurd that clinical hours are counted like this when much of the time is not clinical work…when they are compared to applicants doing a job where all hours listed were actual clinical hours. [b]The idea is to have significant (time wise) clinical experience - emt hours show this but it’s not factual (compared to a cna, cma, er tech, surgical assistant, etc). And i say this as the parent of an emt (who is also a cma)[/b].[/quote]

You are incorrect when you say the "idea is to have significant (time wise) clinical experience." That is not the idea. The "idea" is mere exposure to patient care. That's it. Med students will have "significant clinical experience" in third and fourth year of med school, perhaps even before. [/quote]

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