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**Eagle5US** · 11-26-2008, 00:51

Unless you have been through the ADSOCM course you will not be authorized any antibiotics anyway. Exposure for the MiTT medic training does not qualify you to dispense prescription medications.
A similar situation is people attending, and receiving a card for, ACLS / PALS / ATLS. By attending the course it grants you exposure to the material and a general understanding of how that material is utilized. The course and the card provide absolutely ZERO authorization to perform those procedures or utilize those medications unless you are you are credentialed at that level of performance.

There will be a medical provider assigned to you and your area. Our area had 17 MiTT medics controlled by our BDE SGN, he subsequently assigned two or three specifically to each of the providers within the Bn. We were responsible for reviewing the SF600's they would produce and act as their "medical control" via phone if they had questions on a patient, and see their folks when they brought them to the FOB. Any patient that requires more than sick call type care, you will be calling that provider on the phone or taking the patient to the nearest FOB for treatment.

Do not confuse "exposure" to pharmacology with the ability to write for prescription medications. Antibiotics are outside your scope of practice. Our MiTT medics had to pass a written test before signing for their morphine - and it was accounted for on a monthly basis.

Other than sick call meds...you are limited. So don't worry about things that will cloud your brain and potentially get you in trouble.

Eagle

11-26-2008, 00:51	#5
Eagle5US Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Tampa Posts: 2,532	Unless you have been through the ADSOCM course you will not be authorized any antibiotics anyway. Exposure for the MiTT medic training does not qualify you to dispense prescription medications. A similar situation is people attending, and receiving a card for, ACLS / PALS / ATLS. By attending the course it grants you exposure to the material and a general understanding of how that material is utilized. The course and the card provide absolutely ZERO authorization to perform those procedures or utilize those medications unless you are you are credentialed at that level of performance. There will be a medical provider assigned to you and your area. Our area had 17 MiTT medics controlled by our BDE SGN, he subsequently assigned two or three specifically to each of the providers within the Bn. We were responsible for reviewing the SF600's they would produce and act as their "medical control" via phone if they had questions on a patient, and see their folks when they brought them to the FOB. Any patient that requires more than sick call type care, you will be calling that provider on the phone or taking the patient to the nearest FOB for treatment. Do not confuse "exposure" to pharmacology with the ability to write for prescription medications. Antibiotics are outside your scope of practice. Our MiTT medics had to pass a written test before signing for their morphine - and it was accounted for on a monthly basis. Other than sick call meds...you are limited. So don't worry about things that will cloud your brain and potentially get you in trouble. Eagle __________________ Primum non Nocere "I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble. Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly." The Reaper-3 Sep 04 Last edited by Eagle5US; 11-26-2008 at 07:56.
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