Re: Licensure

March 2, 1999

WELL SAID!!!!!!WELL SAID!!!!!

annparam@... wrote:

> After attending an instructor course last night, I realized the

ramifications of Licensure. We have fought a good fight, we have earned the

respect of communities, health care providers, etc., and now it seems that the

> we have earned is going to benefit the Paramedic of the future. Well that's

wonderful, but what about the Pioneer, the Paramedic that does not hold a

degree? Oh, I realize that many of you feel if we want it then we'll go get it.

It's not that simple, I'm 40 years old, I have given everything to EMS and this

is my reward? I feel that those of us that have continually met the standards

to recertify every four years should be grand-fathered into Licensure.

> Will it mean more pay? I don't think so, and anyone who works the field

realistically knows that with the new balanced budget and the medicare, medicaid

cut-backs our employers are doing all that they can do. Still the state will

now punish the Paramedic that has been giving their all, suffering through the

low wages & lack of respect for our chosen field and our abilities in an

emergency, all for the betterment of the profession by proving we are effective

in what we do, by not granting us Licensure without a college degree.

> I want it to be better in the future, but I don't feel it's right for some

college kid to be distinguished as better than me when he comes fresh from the

campus to the street. I can work rings around that college student due to the

practical experience I have received over the years. We Paramedics of today

deserve Licensure first.

>

> Ann Crabtree EMT-P

> annparam@...

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