Paramedic (Part-Time)

Responds to emergency calls, providing basic, intermediate, and paramedic life support treatment and first aid to patients, as well as transportation to appropriate medical facility. Obtains patient medical history if possible; assesses physical condition of patients and assists in making decisions regarding proper courses of action. Performs such duties as CPR; cardiac monitoring, medication calculation, and administration, splint application; wound treatment; control of bleeding; monitoring and relaying of vital signs; oxygen administration; sterile suctioning; intubation; intravenous therapy; blood glucose monitoring; and esophageal obturator, pharyngeal tracheal lumen, and combi-tube airways.

Extricates victims from wreckage as necessary.

Responsible for chain of control for controlled substances.

Additional Duties:

Performs safety checks and assures maintenance is performed on ambulances.

Transports patients to other facilities and home.

Operates radio communications with dispatch center, hospital personnel and other public safety agencies to receive and to transmit instructions Involving patient care.

Provides instructions to first responders and bystanders in the use of first aid equipment.

Assist with new employees orientation/training.

Determines the need for back-up assistance.