1 definition by BSIscenesafety
The individual, often an EMT, partnered with the paramedic who is responsible for fixing their mistakes and ensuring that the paramedic stays on task when caring for the patient, completing paperwork, and transferring patient care at the hospital.
Responsibilities of the medic sitter often include; reminding the paramedic to clock in, ensuring the paramedic is well fed and caffeinated, keeping track of patient paperwork, reminding the paramedic of the patient's name, remembering the stretcher at the hospital, reminding the paramedic that they are not in fact god, disposing of sharps properly, reminding the paramedic to exchange narcs and not just memes at the hospital, ensuring that the monitor cables and IV lines don't strangle the patient while transferring them from stretcher to bed, reminding the paramedic to wear gloves, and remembering to grab the drug box on a code.
Responsibilities of the medic sitter often include; reminding the paramedic to clock in, ensuring the paramedic is well fed and caffeinated, keeping track of patient paperwork, reminding the paramedic of the patient's name, remembering the stretcher at the hospital, reminding the paramedic that they are not in fact god, disposing of sharps properly, reminding the paramedic to exchange narcs and not just memes at the hospital, ensuring that the monitor cables and IV lines don't strangle the patient while transferring them from stretcher to bed, reminding the paramedic to wear gloves, and remembering to grab the drug box on a code.
"So I'm training Andrew to be my new medic-sitter....so far it's going pretty well, except earlier he forgot to remind me that I needed to call medical control for Lopressor."
"I had to medic-sit Adam's hungover ass the other day. I reminded him of the patient's name 4 times on the way to the hospital."
"I had to medic-sit Adam's hungover ass the other day. I reminded him of the patient's name 4 times on the way to the hospital."
by BSIscenesafety June 1, 2020