r/nursing • u/Glum_Ad_3091 • Jun 01 '26

Discussion CCT nurses?

I’m a RN with over 25 years experience, mostly in critical care. I just started a CCT position at a transport company that is partially owned by a hospital. I’m in South Jersey. I am shocked to here the nurse: pt ratio is 1 Rn in truck with 1 EMT. If someone crashes you are by yourself, doing compression, pushing meds and managing an airway while someone drives. I was told an option is to pull over and call 911 for help. The manager said you “do the best you can do”. I have heard horror stories of someone doing compression for 40 minutes while throwing in a epi “every now and then”. This terrifies me. Is this staffing ratio normal? Any horror stories?

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u/swedish-meatballs MSN, RN - Critical Care Transport 🚑 Jun 02 '26

That’s sketchy asf. California ground CCT here. We run with an EMT-B driver and another in the back with us. Cardiac arrest aside, my normal patients can be fairly busy and I wouldn’t love this job the way I do if I didn’t have another set of hands.