What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paramedic position at CommonSpirit Health?
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As our Paramedic, you'll provide professional and compassionate care to a variety of patients encountered in a multidisciplinary pre-hospital/hospital setting. Patient population groups include children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics, occasionally dealing with multiple patients or population groups simultaneously.
The Paramedic performs and documents assessments and treatments; individualizes patient care and ensures that interventions are made appropriately and according to policy; identifies needs that may include supervising the transfer of patients to a different facility or level of care. The Paramedic provides direct patient care; administers medications utilizing the five (5) Patient Rights; identifies significant changes or high risk situations; completes all documentation in a timely manner; demonstrates knowledge and use of equipment encountered in the ambulance department or in hospital; communicates patient status at transfer of care; adjusts own workload as needed; assess, identifies, and communicates staffing needs to Coordinator or adjusts staffing needs to current situation. She/he is responsible for the supervision, safety of EMT’s, staff, and bystanders, and coordinates the patient care with ancillary departments involved in either direct or indirect patient care. Treatment is accomplished through the guidelines established by the Standing Orders, Medical Director and ND State Guidelines.
About Us:
CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health have a variety of skills from clinical to project management. In our Critical Access Hospital you will be exposed to the emergency department, acute care, (Med/Surg), swing bed, surgery, outpatient treatment and so much more!
Responsibilities
Provides professional and compassionate patient care to all age groups.
Individualizes Patient Care as needed to accurately reflect current patient needs. This ensures that interventions or physician order requests are made promptly, particularly when exceptions occur on patient care guidelines.
Provides patient care, which is appropriate to the patient diagnosis, symptoms, and physician orders, following ambulance and/or hospital policies and procedures.
Performs patient assessment and takes appropriate action according to treatment guidelines.
Administers Medications utilizing the 5 Rights and according to the stand operating procedure.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent.
- NREMT-PARA
- EMT-P:ND
- AUTO:ND
- Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by American Heart Association
- ACLS issued by American Heart Association
- PALS issued by American Heart Association
