EMT Basic - Central/Western OK

About the role

The role involves providing basic life support, responding to emergency rescue situations, maintaining control at the scene of an emergency, and transporting patients to medical care facilities.

Responsibilities

• Recognizes and understands a medical emergency and makes reasonable and acceptable differential diagnosis
• Performs physical examinations
• Understands and anticipates potentially life-threatening presentations of non-cardiac emergencies and institutes appropriate emergency therapy
• Deals with medical and emotional needs of any victim of acute illness or injury with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality
• Maintains quality patient-care as established by the Company
• Fills standardized reports of patient information and care for the use of receiving hospitals and administration
• Maintains effective communication with physicians on duty at hospitals to relate patient conditions and obtain orders for treatment
• Follows standard written protocols when a physician cannot be contacted
• Transports the ill and injured to institutions of medical care
• Operates emergency vehicles in a safe manner under all conditions
• Cleans and maintains equipment
• Completes patient statistics and medical information forms for administrative use
• Assists in technical rescues in removing victims from varied terrain and circumstances
• Cleans and maintains living quarters
• Maintains records of vehicles, supplies, training, and daily work
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Must possess and maintain: EMT / EMT-BCPR for the Health Care Provider
• Good knowledge of the street systems, addresses, and physical layout of the area, and of the rescue equipment and the emergency medical equipment used in Advanced Life Support
• Good ability to: Perform technical medical skills with a high degree of accuracy; Understand and effectively deal with emotional and medical needs of victims of injuries, acute illnesses, or psychological emergencies; Maintain a professional and objective approach to the care of ill or injured persons; Learn new concepts in rescue and medical skills and techniques and in pre-hospital care; Perform a variety of limited mechanical work involved in the use, testing, and maintenance of rescue and medical equipment; Direct the work of, and teach other personnel; Understand and follow oral and written instructions and orders; Maintain a professional attitude when representing the Company; Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, assisting agencies, hospital personnel, and the general public; Drive and operate emergency ambulance units; and, Author reports with narrative and numeric information
• Maintain a high degree of academic and practical knowledge in emergency medicine, and attend sufficient continuing education classes, courses, and seminars both on and off duty to maintain annual certification, as required by the state in which you will be working