International Nurses Association

Some hospitals require the occasional ride along with paramedics, depending on what area of nursing you work in.  For emergency room nurses, the ride along can be very beneficial. It provides insight into the world that paramedics and EMT’s work in. You can see and experience first hand what it is like to treat the patient prior to arriving at the hospital.  A typical Ride Along I’m not sure there is such a thing in medicine as typical, however the description is one ride along, from 7 pm until 3 am. Jamie never gave much thought about the people that delivered her patients to the emergency room.  They were doing their job and she was doing hers. However, all of that changed after her ride along, she learned just how valuable everyone is in the role of medicine. The Friday night ride along went at a very pace, the first call coming in 15 minutes after the shift began. The call was an emergency for a private residence where a baby was burned. A 3-year-o ld pulled a pan of hot greas