Paramedic
Description
- Our paramedics work 24 hour on call shifts
- Minimum of 4 shifts a month
- Evaluating the patients ailments and/or needs and providing them with proper medical care and treatment until the patient safely reaches the hospital
- Administering medication and/or injections to ease the patients pain & suffering
- Replacing lost blood through the use of blood transfusion devices
- Managing proper treatment while working in small and often compressed atmospheres
- Maintaining the patients overall safety while in flight
- Operating emergency and non emergency medical machinery, equipment and/or technology such as mechanical ventilation machines, oxygen tanks, blood transfusion devices and various other life support equipment.
- Acting as an intermediary and communicator between various interdisciplinary teams.
- Planning and preparing for flight missions
Qualifications
- Current unrestricted EMT-P license in the State of practice.
- Minimum of three (3) years of pre-hospital EMS experience (minimum of three (3) years of high call volume transports).
- CCT experience desirable
- Flight Paramedic experience preferred
- Current ACLS, BCLS, PALS and NRP provider.
- PHTLS or TNATC required within six (6) months of hire .
- FP-C desirable
- CCT-EMTP desirable
- National certification (FP-C or CCT-EMTP) required within one (1) year of hire.