Paramedic
Hybrid-based
ONET: 29-2043.00
2
Years
49
Skills
1556h
Related instructions
4000h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Emergency Vehicle Operator
- Basic Anatomy & Physiology
- Paramedic Initial and Clinical
- Paramedic Clinical
- Traffic Incident Management
On-the-job training
- Safety
- Safely drive an emergency medical vehicle in adverse conditions and according to motor vehicle laws
- Cleans and sanitizes ambulance and equipment daily, ensures they are in proper and good working order, makes routine adjustments, but reports other than minor defects for specialized attention
- Maintain medical services vehicle and supplies
- Inspects and tests ambulances and their emergency equipment, maintaining proper inventory of equipment and supplies
- Cleans and sanitizes ambulance and equipment daily, ensures they are in proper and good working order, makes routine adjustments, but reports other than minor defects for specialized attention
- knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in emergency care of patients and accident victims
- Patient evaluation
- Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
- Comfort and reassure patients
- Records management and communication
- Accurately record services provided on required forms
- Knowledge of county geography and locations of roads and streets
- Respond quickly and calmly in emergncies and stressful situations
- Maintain confidentiality of patient contact
- Work with co-workers, law enforcement personnel, fire, medical personnel, patients and the general public
- Knowledge of intravenous therapy and skill in recognizing adverse conditions
- Medical emergency for serious and life-threatening clinical situation
- Establishes an intravenous or intraosseous line in a peripheral vein and administer any intravenous solution approved by the Board of Medical Examiners for use by EMT-Ps.
- Obtains blood for laboratory analysis
- Administers parenterally, orally, sublingual, or topically any of the drugs approved by the Board of Medical Examiners for use by EMT-Ps
- Performs pulmonary ventilation by means of an endotracheal tube and/or perform cricothyrotomy for relief of upper airway obstruction.
- Performs defibrillation or cardioversion
- Uses gas-powered or hand-powered nebulizers
- Decompress a tension pneumothorax by use of a catheter-flutter-valve device.
- Uses positive end expiratory pressure respirators
- Performs gastric suction by intubation
- Performs urinary catheterization
- Performs external cardiac pacing
- Administer intravenous medications
- Establishes an intravenous or intraosseous line in a peripheral vein
- Administer any intravenous solution
- Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures
- Pulseless non-breathing patient clinical situation
- Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Defibrillation
- Pulmonary ventilation by means of an endotracheal tube
- Administer appropriate cardiac drugs prior to contacting the sponsor hospital
- Ability to perform the following procedures as the situation requires
- Patient assessment;
- Basic life support techniques in accordance with the American Heart Association or American Red Cross including airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Oxygen administration
- Hemorrhage control
- Treatment for shock
- Bandaging and dressing soft tissue injuries
- Application of military anti-shock trousers
- Splinting fractures and dislocations
- Treatment of injuries to the head, face, eye, neck, and spine
- Treatment of injuries to the chest, abdomen and genitalia
- Provision of basic life support for medical injuries
- Assisting in normal and abnormal childbirth
- Treatment of injuries as a result of exposure to heat and cold
- Treatment of burns
- Lifting and moving patients for transfer to a medical facility
- Extrication of patients from confined areas
- Patient assessment
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