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.