Job address
US
Company size
51-200 employees
Job sector
Law, Public Safety, & Security
occupation category
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
Job details
Required skills
- Distinguish between skills sets (job skills, transferable skills, self-management skills, and emotional intelligence).
- 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
- Inventories, replaces, and cleans supplies and equipment after use
- Uses appropriate supplies and equipment
- Performs communication with ancillary personnel
- 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
- 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
- Communicates with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, or to receive instructions for further treatment
- Evaluates the scene
- Uses Universal Precautions to control the spread of infection
- Determines need for additional help or assistance during the scene evaluation
- Chooses facilities to receive patients based on appropriate criteria
- Attends training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge
- Administers activated charcoal, oral glucose, and oxygen
- Performs focused and/or detailed assessment as warranted by patient presentation
- Utilizes medical control as warranted
- Documents medical care given to patients
- Understands and responds appropriately to hazardous materials
- Identifies potential hazards
- 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
- Applies the use of patient restraint in acceptable conditions according to protocol
- Obtains informed or implied consent
- Accesses & reacts to the function of the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, integumentary, musculoskeletal, reproductive, genitourinary, and endocrine system
- Uses and interprets pulse oximetry
- Applies medical aspects of advance prehospital care
- Uses appropriate terminology when communicating based on target audience
- Immobilizes patient for placement on stretcher and ambulance transport, using backboard or other spinal immobilization device
- Provides first-aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured patients
- Assesses a patient’s need for preventive information and direction applying general and specific environmental parameters that should be inspected
- Ventilates patient with a stoma
- Provides treatment based on pathophysiology
- 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
- Identifies, understands, and responds appropriately with regard to special considerations in EMS operations
- Provides emergency medical treatment, while not exceeding the level of skill, training, and certification of the individual employee
- Responds appropriately with regard to weapons of mass destruction, rape management, crime scenes, and rescue operations
- Chooses appropriate techniques for taking patient complaint/history
- Uses a nasal cannula and adjust oxygen flow requirements needed
- Cares for patient in accordance with advance directives
- Articulates intentions for patient care
- Identifies internal and external factors that can affect a patient interview conducted by a paramedic
- Understands liability as it applies to emergency medical services
- Differentiates legal, ethical, and moral responsibilities
- Differentiates expressed, informed, implied, and involuntary consent
- 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
- Utilizes the most commonly used pharmacological agents in the management of the patient injury or illness
- Applies incident command procedures
- Applies appropriate interviewing techniques in cross-cultural communications
- Completes approved forms in accordance with policies and procedures
- Administers an intramuscular medication via auto-injector
- Understands emergency vehicle operations considerations
- Identifies factors that impede effective verbal communication
- Chooses appropriate strategies when interviewing a patient who is unmotivated to talk, hostile or uncooperative
- Follows infection control protocols (preventative and post exposure)
- Assesses the patient for circulatory function
- 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
- Observes patients and records significant conditions and treatments rendered
- Identifies health hazards and potential crime areas within the community
- Transports patients safely in an ambulance
- Applies legal aspects of advanced prehospital care
- Improves and upgrades the skills and knowledge of the emergency medical profession
- Calms down the victims’ family members
- Identifies and communicates local municipal and community resources available for physical, socioeconomic crises
- Takes Legal obligations into account when making medical decisions
- Applies the epidemiological principles to develop prevention strategies for all injuries
- Decontaminates ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease and report case to proper authorities
- Drives mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher
- Delegates responsibilities to ancillary personnel
- Comforts and reassures patients
- Drives to the scene and provide basic life support to the victims before they are transported to the hospital
- Lifts, transfers and maneuvers patients safely in and out of ambulances, facilities, residences and other locations
- Operates equipment such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators and bag-valve mask resuscitators in advanced life-support environments
- Responds to 911 calls for emergency medical assistance, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or bandaging a wound
- 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
- Relates assessment findings associated with injuries to the appropriate pathophysiology process
- 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
- Acquires a pulse and provide rate, rhythm, and strength
- Utilizes system protocol
- Prepares a patient care report and take notes of the medical treatment given to them
- Determines legal obligations
- Utilizes nonverbal skills in patient interviewing
- Transfers patients to the emergency department of a hospital or other healthcare facility
- Provides care for an impaled object
- Selects, dons, doffs and properly/safely discards PPE
- Uses appropriate equipment for patient care (such as ECG monitor, defibrillators, etc.)
- Describes components of the EMS dispatch system
- Understands necessity and the standards for maintaining patient confidentiality
- Disposes of biohazard materials following approved guidelines
- Ventilates using a BVM at the appropriate rate
- Determines a patient’s level of consciousness
- Assesses initial patient status
- Performs emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride
Preferred skills
- Distinguish between skills sets (job skills, transferable skills, self-management skills, and emotional intelligence).
Required Credentials
Emergency Medical Technician
Allows health care provider to respond quickly to emergency situations regarding medical issues, traumatic injuries and accident scenes. Will allow student to obtain a position as an emergency medical technician
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics SkillsPACK
[Emergency Medical Technicians] Assess injuries and illnesses and administer basic emergency medical care. May transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities. Sample of reported job titles: Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), First Responder. [Paramedics] Administer basic or advanced emergency medical care and assess injuries and illnesses. May administer medication intravenously, use equipment such as EKGs, or administer advanced life support to sick or injured individuals. Sample of reported job titles: First Responder, Flight Paramedic, Paramedic.
