1978, New Orleans, Mardi Gras, is the first documented case of hospitals employing travel nurses. Fundamentally, not much has changed in the world of travel healthcare in the last four decades. Until now.
Paramedics are joining the hospital healthcare workforce as nurse adjacent members of healthcare teams nationwide. Best Practice Medicine is leading this revolution as the subject matter expert and the architects of the nation's first dedicated travel paramedic organization.
Paramedics working in hospitals can be a lightning rod issue. The profession is young and the expansion of scope and education since its inception in the early 1980's substantial.
Healthcare is a team sport, and paramedics are simply another position to consider adding to the roster. As respiratory therapists in the '40s, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners in the '60s, and more recently Clinical Pharmacists improved care teams without threatening the vital role of historical positions like nurses, and physicians so to do paramedics come in peace, for the benefit of patient care.
The increase in the scope of practice and education of paramedics in the last two decades uniquely positions this workforce to participate as members of many care teams throughout the hospital ecosystem.
Our travel paramedics are currently working as nurse adjacent care providers on the following teams nationwide.
Healthcare can be complex and challenging to navigate. That's why we entered the already crowded healthcare staffing space, our team knows how to navigate the regulations, roadblocks, and resistance that previously prevented hospital access to this invisible workforce.
In the event of healthcare system overload—when the number of patients in a healthcare system exponentially exceeds the available staffing or when medical staff are unable to work due to quarantines—Paramedic Resource Group will provide staffing relief for impacted areas. Natural disasters and pandemics pose a major risk to healthcare systems, especially in rural America where staffing is already short. We are proud to deploy licensed and highly trained EMTs, AEMTs, Paramedics, and Nurses to reduce the load on burdened medical systems.
During the Covid-19 Pandemic when healthcare systems were extremely stressed, we were able to provide numerous MT hospitals and care facilities with emergency surge staffing.
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