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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Law, Public Safety, & Security
occupation category
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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Required skills
- Uses appropriate supplies and equipment
- Applies legal aspects of advanced prehospital care
- Inventories, replaces, and cleans supplies and equipment after use
- Improves and upgrades the skills and knowledge of the emergency medical profession
- Performs communication with ancillary personnel
- Calms down the victims’ family members
- Completes and maintains accurate records and documentation with regard to transport, equipment inspection, supplies usage incidents and other forms of documentation inherent in the operation
- Applies medical aspects of advance prehospital care
- Uses appropriate terminology when communicating based on target audience
- Assesses a patient’s need for preventive information and direction applying general and specific environmental parameters that should be inspected
- Provides first-aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured patients
- Ventilates patient with a stoma
- Uses and interprets pulse oximetry
- Immobilizes patient for placement on stretcher and ambulance transport, using backboard or other spinal immobilization device
- Provides care for a patient with burns
- Obtains patient complaint/history
- Identifies and communicates the injury and illness prevention programs that promote safety for all age populations
- Communicates with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, or to receive instructions for further treatment
- Administers first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings
- Determines the right course of action after evaluating the patient’s condition
- Evaluates the scene
- Uses Universal Precautions to control the spread of infection
- Applies the use of patient restraint in acceptable conditions according to protocol
- Communicates with dispatchers and treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, and to receive instructions for further treatment
- Reports problems or conditions to the proper entity
- Understands and responds appropriately to hazardous materials
- Decontaminates ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease and report case to proper authorities
- Identifies potential hazards
- Performs focused and/or detailed assessment as warranted by patient presentation
- Delegates responsibilities to ancillary personnel
- Identifies and communicates local municipal and community resources available for physical, socioeconomic crises
- Comforts and reassures patients
- Drives mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher
- Documents medical care given to patients
- Takes Legal obligations into account when making medical decisions
- Utilizes medical control as warranted
- Applies the epidemiological principles to develop prevention strategies for all injuries
- Responds appropriately with regard to weapons of mass destruction, rape management, crime scenes, and rescue operations
- Attends training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge
- Cares for patient in accordance with advance directives
- Chooses facilities to receive patients based on appropriate criteria
- Understands liability as it applies to emergency medical services
- Differentiates legal, ethical, and moral responsibilities
- Uses a nasal cannula and adjust oxygen flow requirements needed
- Provides emergency medical treatment, while not exceeding the level of skill, training, and certification of the individual employee
- Administers activated charcoal, oral glucose, and oxygen
- Articulates intentions for patient care
- Identifies internal and external factors that can affect a patient interview conducted by a paramedic
- Chooses appropriate techniques for taking patient complaint/history
- Determines need for additional help or assistance during the scene evaluation
- Differentiates expressed, informed, implied, and involuntary consent
- Completes approved forms in accordance with policies and procedures
- Applies incident command procedures
- Acquires a pulse and provide rate, rhythm, and strength
- Utilizes the most commonly used pharmacological agents in the management of the patient injury or illness
- Utilizes nonverbal skills in patient interviewing
- Applies appropriate interviewing techniques in cross-cultural communications
- Provides medical aid such as AED and CPR, prevents spinal damage, provides ventilation, controls severe bleeding, prevents shock, bandages wounds, etc., to stabilize their condition
- Administers an intramuscular medication via auto-injector
- Understands emergency vehicle operations considerations
- Prepares a patient care report and take notes of the medical treatment given to them
- Utilizes system protocol
- Determines legal obligations
- Identifies factors that impede effective verbal communication
- Observes patients and records significant conditions and treatments rendered
- Communicates with the physician at the scene, the paramedic at the scene and the EMS physician providing on-line medical direction and understands the relationship and responsibilities of these individuals
- Transports patients safely in an ambulance
- Identifies health hazards and potential crime areas within the community
- Chooses appropriate strategies when interviewing a patient who is unmotivated to talk, hostile or uncooperative
- Assesses the patient for circulatory function
- Follows infection control protocols (preventative and post exposure)
- Accesses & reacts to the function of the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, integumentary, musculoskeletal, reproductive, genitourinary, and endocrine system
- Obtains informed or implied consent
- Describes components of the EMS dispatch system
- Transfers patients to the emergency department of a hospital or other healthcare facility
- Ventilates using a BVM at the appropriate rate
- Determines a patient’s level of consciousness
- Performs emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride
- Assesses initial patient status
- Disposes of biohazard materials following approved guidelines
- Provides care for an impaled object
- Understands necessity and the standards for maintaining patient confidentiality
- Uses appropriate equipment for patient care (such as ECG monitor, defibrillators, etc.)
- Selects, dons, doffs and properly/safely discards PPE
- Identifies and communicates the role of EMS in local municipal and community health education programs (CPR, health fairs, child safety seat, immunizations, etc)
- Observes, records, and reports to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment
- Intervenes in a preventive manner in appropriate patient situations
- Provides treatment based on pathophysiology
- Identifies, understands, and responds appropriately with regard to special considerations in EMS operations
- Responds to 911 calls for emergency medical assistance, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or bandaging a wound
- Drives to the scene and provide basic life support to the victims before they are transported to the hospital
- Reports their observations and treatment to physicians, nurses, or other healthcare facility staff
- Maintains vehicles and medical and communication equipment and replenish first aid equipment and supplies
- Operates equipment such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators and bag-valve mask resuscitators in advanced life-support environments
- Lifts, transfers and maneuvers patients safely in and out of ambulances, facilities, residences and other locations
- Relates assessment findings associated with injuries to the appropriate pathophysiology process
- Complies with all applicable state, local, and federal regulations and laws, pertaining to but not limited to protocols, standards of care, motor vehicle operations, and patient rights
