EMT A or B – Emergency Department

About the role

Current Opening: One Full-Time position (36 hours / week)

Responsibilities

• Assess a patient’s conditions and provide initial treatment to the level of their scope of practice.
• Assisting healthcare professionals by monitoring vital signs, providing care, and performing skills to their scope of practice.
• Relaying important medical information about patients to medical staff in the pre-hospital setting and upon arrival to Emergency Department.
• Charting of the assessments and treatments in the appropriate patient care records.
• Is responsible for adhering to standards of ethics recognized by the Office of Emergency Medical Services.
• Knowledgeable of and works within all pertinent, established Powell Valley Healthcare and PVHC Emergency Medical Services Policies, Procedures, and Protocols.
• Always act in a professional manner and shall be able to handle conflict situations with good judgment.
• Responds to instructions from the Crew Leader, EMS Manager, ED/EMS Director, and Medical Director, and drives specially equipped emergency vehicle to specified location.
• Administers treatment at site of emergency, in specially equipped vehicle, or as needed as a member of PVHC patient care teams within the hospital within their scope of practice.
• Documents assessments and care of patients on the Emergency Medical Services medical record. This includes all associated reports and run logs.
• Responsible for the daily operation, inspection, restocking and daily rig checks and monthly outdates.
• Responds in a timely manner to emergencies when on duty or on call.
• Treats patients, public and other healthcare providers and public safety personnel with respect and dignity.
• Attends and participates in at least seventy-five percent of the department’s monthly staff meetings on an annual basis.
• Maintains competency on all equipment within scope of practice.
• Answers phones, operates communications radio, monitors various gauges and monitoring devices.
• Triage patients in varying degrees of distress and keep the Emergency department RN informed on the status of patients in overflow situations.
• Rooming patients in the Emergency Department.
• Rounding and assessing patient and family needs in the Emergency Department and the waiting room.
• Aid the RN in the care of the patient using the delegation model.
• Aid the RN with patient call-backs.
• May assist in controlling crowds, protecting valuables, or performing other duties at scene of catastrophe.
• Aid and mentor new EMT’s and students.
• Aid in maintaining and stocking medical supplies and equipment.
• Under the direction of the Emergency Department Medical Director or designee, assists personnel in emergency treatment administered in the Emergency Department within their scope of practice.
• Provides problem solving situations that require immediate solutions that affect the department’s operation, which may include but is not limited to, staffing on an emergency basis.
• Documents assessments and care of patients in the electronic health record.
• Assists in starting IV’s, take vital signs, help turn or move patients as needed within the Emergency Department and in other areas of the organization.
• Administer medications and assists in procedures within their scope of practice and under the direction of the ED or Hospitalist provider.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Current BLS Health Care Provider.
• 6 months to one year of EMT experience preferred but not required.
• Current Wyoming EMT-A or EMT-B license required.
• Must meet current facility age requirement to drive specially equipped emergency vehicle to specific location.
• Current Wyoming Driver’s License.
• Knowledge of HIPAA guidelines.

Skills

• Strong critical thinking.
• Strong decision making skills.
• Operate a variety of equipment and tools.
• Take verbal orders or standing orders and carry them out in a patient care situation.
• Maintain confidential information.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Interact with a variety of people in a variety of settings in stressful situations.
• Ability to safely operate an ambulance in non-emergency and emergency driving conditions.
• Must have a working knowledge of the geographic area, street systems, and demographics of PVHC Emergency Medical Services coverage area.

Physical Demands/Requirements

• Frequently lifting of objects weighing 25 to 50 pounds.
• Extensive heavy lifting, pushing or pulling objects over 75 pounds, assistance or assistive devices will be used.
• Use of tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, and working with equipment.
• Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
• The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.