Image from the Medavie HealthEd website.
The province has announced a new training program for emergency medical technicians (EMTs).
The training will begin this fall to help ensure more ambulances will be on New Brunswick’s roads, which is a goal of the provincial government’s health plan.
“First responders, like paramedics, are trained to answer the call in our moments of need,” Health Minister Bruce Fitch in a released statement.
“We are confident that, over time, having Ambulance NB reintroduce EMTs into their ranks will help keep more ambulances staffed in New Brunswick communities and increase paramedic coverage throughout the province. EMTs will assist their paramedic colleagues and provide a valuable service to patients and their families in New Brunswick communities,” added Fitch.
EMTs will provide additional resources to support non-urgent patient transfers.
This means, that instead of assigning two paramedics for each patient transfer, a unit may be staffed by one EMT and one paramedic.
This will allow for more paramedics to be assigned to units responding to emergency calls.
This initiative is from the collaboration of the Department of Health, Ambulance NB, the Paramedics Association of New Brunswick, the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, Medavie HealthEd, and Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB).
The training has been developed to align with requirements established by the Paramedics Association of New Brunswick.
It runs for a total of nine weeks: seven weeks of classroom training, followed by a two-week practicum.
English-language training will begin in Moncton with the first graduates entering the workforce before the year’s end.
The French-language course will begin in the winter.
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A training program for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) will begin this fall to help ensure more ambulances will be on New Brunswick’s roads. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/iW6MP00Uzg
— Government of NB (@Gov_NB) September 1, 2022
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