PA or RN on Scene other legalities

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GG,

Here is an off the wall question for you: Presently we have Protocols in

place for Physician On Scene and the requirement that physician be willing

to escort a Patient to the hospital if he/she so desires to provide aid but

what if you run across a Physician Assistant or an RN with field

experience/training as in a Flight Nurse? Are they also legally responsible

for the Patient so long as they agree to escort to the hospital? Either one

is the next echelon higher in care. Would you consider patient care to be

more of a cooperative work in the later case based on scope of practice and

equipment expected to be available? Is there some literature or

state/federal statute that I can review that you can assist me with?

I am on a role here.. Here is the other can: It has been advised EMS

personnel remove First Aid Kits from their vehicles as it may also become a

legal liability. Here is the what if; what if I am traveling away from home

area and come upon a desolate scene where I am the only medically trained

person available. How does one request medical control or is it possible?

Regardless of whether or not it is a band aid or an ET tube. Where does

layperson give way to Paramedicine in a court of Law? Especially where no

foreseeable survivability exists without it. I am leaving common sense out

of this because my Cert is near and dear to my heart and my pocket book.

Long ago during class you had pointed out a legal reference for EMS. I don't

suppose you recall the reference?

J. Meere

CEP, Arizona Ambulance

U.S. Army, Retired