Overview

This opportunity is located at Presbyterian Healthplex

Per Required Need (PRN)FTE: 0.001000Work Schedule: Days 

Non-exempt (hourly)

We're all about well-being, starting with yours. Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

Presbyterian is committed to an inclusive and equitable environment where everyone is valued and empowered for success. We believe that our environment should reflect the diversity of our community.

How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Strongline Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Shift differentials for nights and weekends
• Differentials for higher education, certifications and various lead roles
• Malpractice liability insurance

Presbyterian's story is really the story of the remarkable people who choose to work here. The hard work of our physicians, nurses, employees, board members and volunteers grew Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system that serves more than 875,000 New Mexicans.

The Paramedic performs advanced patient care within State approved scope of practice in the emergency department setting. Receives emergency medical telephone calls and provides emergency care to injured or ill patients.

Qualifications

Emergency Department / Urgent Care:

• Previous EMS Dispatch experience preferred.
• 2 years Emergency Department patient care experience including triage experience preferred.
• National EMT License preferred.
• Ability to read, write and follow verbal and written instructions is required.
• 2-5 years of experience as a paramedic preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED required
• Emerg Med Tech/Paramedic-NM

Responsibilities

• Participates in the provision of patient care based on setting and acuity of patient care needs. Ensures a safe, comfortable, therapeutic environment for patients and families. Organizes care in a manner that contributes to the overall quality of the team. For care in the pre-hospital setting, transportation to city hospitals is an element of patient care.
• Performs wound care and dressing changes. Prepares patients for surgery. Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes. Applies plaster and fiberglass splints, casts and traction devices. Performs bedside testing such as oximetry, ECG, Glucometery, urinalysis and other tests with demonstrated/documented competencies. Scrubs and sutures wounds under the direction of a Provider with demonstrated/documented competencies. Inserts and removes peripheral intravenous therapy lines within State Approved Scope of Practice. Performs phlebotomy.
• Administers medications contained in ordered Emergency Department Treatment Protocols and within State Approved Scope of Practice.
• Assists in cleaning and maintaining emergency supplies and equipment.
• Monitors patients and maintains records using patient monitoring system and electronic health records. Documents and maintains an informative and accurate medical record to initiate charges for each patient treated. Maintains proper functioning systems and reports malfunctions immediately per PHS procedure.
• Documents and reports any pertinent changes to the Nurse, Charge Nurse, and Provider. Provides patient report to other staff as necessary.
• Communicates and processes necessary paperwork/information for patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Participates in unit based Shared Governance activities and assists with the implementation of changes as recommended by councils.
• Performs other functions as directed.
• May observe patient cardiac monitors and maintains records. Documents and reports any pertinent rate or rhythm changes, especially life threatening dysrhythmias. Informs of any drug treatments as appropriate. Notifies the Nurse immediately of any death producing arrhythmias and documents findings.
• May receive emergent and non-emergent medical telephone calls from internal and external contacts, efficiently processing information to dispatch medical ambulance crews to designated ED locations to provide emergency care to injured or ill patients. Ensures equal distribution of arriving patients by team in the ED. Maintains accurate, legible dispatch records for the department.
• Makes transfer arrangements with appropriate EMS transport agency for ED patients needing to be transferred. Directs responding ambulance crews to the appropriate area of the ED for patient transfer.
• Maintains positive communications and collaboration with EMS service line, as well as other internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

We offer more than the standard benefits!

Presbyterian employees gain access to a robust wellness program, including free access to our on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, wellness challenges and more!

https://www.phs.org/careers/why-work-with-us/benefits

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Presbyterian Healthcare Services exists to improve the health of patients, members and the communities we serve. We are a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1,600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

About New Mexico

New Mexico continues to grow steadily in population and features a low cost-of living. Varied landscapes bring filmmakers here from around the world to capture a slice of the natural beauty New Mexicans enjoy every day. Our landscapes are as diverse as our culture - from mountains, forests, canyons, and lakes, to caverns, hot springs and sand dunes.

New Mexico offers endless recreational opportunities to explore and enjoy an active lifestyle. Venture off the beaten path, challenge your body in the elements, or open yourself up to the expansive sky. From hiking, golfing and biking to skiing, snowboarding and boating, it's all available among our beautiful wonders of the west.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

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