C - Shift - EMT

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.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or equivalent; completion of a State of Kansas approved Emergency Medical Technician – Basic Training course.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and questions from residents, family members, medical staff, and other employees and the general public.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Current Kansas approved EMT certification

Current Kansas Driver’s license

• Recommended: Current Kansas approved ACLS and PALS certification

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to smell.

H - Heavy Work - Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.