Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob

It has nothing to do with that. The ER captains are so far removed from their FO days, that they no longer remember all the housekeeping stuff the FO has to do. They rely on the senior FOs, with the institutional knowledge, to do it all. At least the junior CAs on the NBs remember how to do that stuff.

Besides, those guys are too grumpy to make good baby sitters.