C - Shift - EMT
Summary
Provide emergency medical care, transport patients to hospitals, and maintain ambulance equipment in a rural healthcare setting.
Job Title: Emergency Medical Technician – Basic (EMT-B)
Department: Emergency Medical Services
Reports To: EMS Director – Team Lead if Director is unavailable.
Summary:
Respond to medical emergencies by vehicle or other means. Assess injuries, administer emergency medical care, and extricate trapped individuals. Transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Administer first-aid treatment and life-support care to sick or injured persons in pre-hospital setting.
- Perform emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as airway management or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs and treatment.
- Immobilize patient for placement on stretcher and ambulance transport, using backboard or another spinal immobilization device.
- Maintain vehicles and medical and communication equipment, and replenish first-aid equipment and supplies.
- Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
- Communicate with dispatchers and treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, and to receive instructions for further treatment.
- Comfort and reassure patients.
- Decontaminate ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease and report case to proper authorities.
- Operate equipment such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators and bag-valve mask resuscitators in basic life-support environments.
- Drive ambulances to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher.
- Coordinate with treatment center personnel to obtain patients vital statistics and medical history, to determine the circumstances of the emergency, and to administer emergency treatment.
- Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members and police and fire department personnel.
- Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge.
- Follow the CHS Code of Conduct and work within the personnel and department-based policies.
- Other duties may be assigned.