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Position Summary: Under the supervision of the Operations Captain, the Paramedic provides advanced life support emergency care to sick and injured patients. The employee in this positionrespondsto911calls,rendersmedicalassistanceandtransportspatientstotheproper medical facility. This position is distinguishable from an EMT in that the position requires further initial education, additional specialized training, greater responsibility for patient care/outcome, and greater amount of annual continuingeducation.
Examples of Work (Essential Functions):
- Assists patients, family members, and others confidentially and with concern and empathy;
- Delivers advanced life support (ALS) care including medication administration, narcotic administration, ECG application/interpretation, invasive procedures, IV/IO, intubation, advanced airway care, thoracostomy, ventilator management, and various other pre- hospital critical care procedures;
- Inspects and documents controlled substances daily or asdirected;
- Maintains a thorough knowledge of departmental medical guidelines, operational protocols, as well as city and county geography, mapping androuting;
- Operates all two-way radio communication equipment and troubleshootsproblems;
- Operates emergency vehicles safely andprofessionally;
- Operates, and can troubleshoot, all pre-hospital medical careequipment;
- Performs daily vehicle, equipment, and stationinventory/maintenance;
- Readies all medical equipment for use each day, and following each response, restocks all equipment and supplies, as well as troubleshoot equipment problems and reports needed maintenance to EMSadministrators;
- Acts as a servant to the public, assists citizens in need, and communicates with all citizens, patients, family members, government employees, fellow emergency responders, and health care providers in a calm, courteous and respectfulmanner;
- Responds to 911 calls and provides emergency medical treatment andtransport;
- Uses department computers and accurately completes all patient care reports, billing reports and incident reports by the end of eachshift;
- Maintains professional development and continuing education asrequired;
- Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required.
Abilities, Knowledge, Skills:
- Ability to adapt and react to rapidly changing conditions and situations appropriately and able to cope with high stress high impact working conditions;
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra andgeometry;
- Ability to be naturally self-motivated and aself-starter;
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, andvolume;
- Ability to convey and receive detailed or important verbal instructions to and from other workers and the generalpublic;
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw validconclusions;
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the generalpublic;
- Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of verbalcommunication;
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concretevariables;
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professionaljournals, technical procedures, or governmentalregulations;
- Ability to reliably and predictably carry outduties;
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and proceduremanuals;
- Knowledge inparamedics;
- Knowledge of county and city mapping must bemaintained;
- Knowledge of emergency medical care and ambulanceprocedures;
- Knowledge of emergency vehicle operation and radio operations isrequired;
- Knowledge of math, including medical/infusion rate calculations as well as medical documentation;
- Skill in math, including medical/medication calculations as well as medical documentation;
- Skill in operating a computer;
- Skill in oral and written communication.