Job Summary

Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, the Paramedic utilizes technical knowledge base to provide patient care as well as cross-trainable technical services for all age groups (neonate, infant, children, adolescent, adult, and geriatric) in cooperation with other members of the health care team.

Essential Functions

• Performs patient care tasks in a safe and competent manner without deviation from the standard of care or hospital policy and procedure.

• Coordinates care with the RN and other interdisciplinary care to optimize patient outcomes.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize changes in patient status and report changes to RN immediately. Assist in providing appropriate interventions in a timely manner.

• Maintains complete and timely documentation that assures accurate reflection of care provided.

• Provides appropriate communication with multidisciplinary team members, patients and their families.

• Maintains communication with RN throughout entire shift to ensure accuracy of information and care provided.

• Promptly responds to patients request for assistance in professional and effective manner.

• Safely administers medications utlizing the five rights of medication adminsitration.

• Utilizes Electronic Medical Record (EMR) medication scanning to ensure safe medication administration.

• Assists in facilitating throughput throughout the department.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Technical School Graduate of an accredited program in paramedic science and with current state of employment license/certification. required

• 0-1 years current EMT-P experience preferred

• 0-2 years Acute Care hospital experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent time management skills

• Ability to develop and deliver health education and training programs.

• Ability to establish strong rapport and relationships with patients and staff.

• Ability to work under stressful situations.

• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

• Excellent communication and customer service skills.

Licenses and Certifications

• EMT - Emergency Medical Tech Certification EMT-P required or

• PARAMEDIC - Paramedic – Licensed Licensed Paramedic with State Registry/Board required

• Health Services\ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support required

• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support required

Equal Employment Opportunity

This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to http://www.chs.net/serving-communities/locations/ to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.