<p>@Curmudgeon: thanks for the post. That gives me hope if my EMT training doesn’t work out. </p>
<p>I would also be interested in training as a nurses assistant…</p>
<p>oregon-- consider phlebotomy. Much quicker to train for. (I think here it’s a 4 week class.) Pays better. Better hours too. (EMTs–at least locally–tend to work only in 12 hours shifts, both in hospitals or ambulance service.)</p>
<p>Not 100% sure, but I think CNA training is almost as involved as EMT training. It involves both classroom training (50 hours ) and clinical practice (100 hours)–at least in our state.</p>
<p>Also there are all sorts of jobs available to students once you get on campus. D2 is math TA and grader at her school. D1 is a research assistant in a high energy physics labs doing proton-proton interactions and will be a co-author on a paper this fall . (LOL! She’s been told this makes her “interesting”–as in not your typical pre-med–by the asst. dean of the med school. D1 has also TAed-but in engineering physics and acoustics.) Keep an open mind…</p>
<p>There are also all sorts of jobs at hospitals that don’t directly involve medical training, but do involve some patient contact. One of D2’s friends was a ward clerk last summer. D2 worked as a child life assistant in pediatrics for one summer. Another friend worked in patient transport.</p>
<p>One of my friends go his EMT-B in NY but is going to school in MA. Would he have to take another EMT-B course in MA?</p>