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.
"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."
