-> -> -> -> Hello David and Good luck.. I don't know much about becoming
-> -> -> -> you state but here in South Carolina you now have to work fo
-> -> -> -> ambulance service before you can even go to EMT school..
-> -> -> -> I have been EMT for 17 years but because I don't work with a
-> -> -> -> any more I will loss my certificate this go round.. Drop dow
-> -> -> -> First Responder..
-> -> ->
-> -> ->   What a bunch of ^%$#!$%!! What about EMTs that only work in a
-> -> -> hospital?? I am a Paramedic and work in the ER and have never w
-> -> -> a service.  What does the service pay knowing that you have to
-> -> -> then to become an EMT? I bet the pay is almost as bad as it is
-> ->
-> -> The state of south carolina does not certify EMT's to work in
-> -> hospitals.. I have a friend that lost her paramedic certificate be
-> -> she started working for a doctors office and the doctor agreed to
-> -> sign for her as medical control but the state turned her down
-> -> because she was not working on an ambulance and said that she need
-> -> to call the state board of nursing..why I don't know.. The state h
-> -> said they plan on lossing all non-active EMT's..and that part time
-> -> does not get it.
-> -> --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12
->
->  Yea,
->   Still sound like a bunch of *&%$&$@!! to me. Is that a Union state
-> right to work?
->
->   James Nold EMT-P
->
-> --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12
South Carolina is a very proud right to work state.. We have tried to up
grade the level of the basic EMT with a lot of new changes but very few
services are up grading or allow their basic EMT's to use any of the new
skills that they are trained to do.. now that is a bunch of !@#$%^&*()..
--- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 
---------------