LifeFlight Ground AEMT - FT $7,500 Sign-on bonus! Clarksville

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Clarksville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. LifeFlight Ground EMS started with a single ambulance in the fall of 2011, and after several expansions now includes a fleet pf 21 Advance Life Support (ALS) equipped ground ambulances operating from five locations in the Middle Tennessee areas: Nashville, Wilson County (Lebanon), Coffee County (Tullahoma), Montgomery County (Clarksville) and, Bedford County (adjacent to Vanderbilt Bedford). These ambulances predominantly focus on interfacility transfers and discharges from Vanderbilt affiliated medical facilities, with the ability to also support non-Vanderbilt facilities.

Requirements

LIC-Emergency Medical Technicians Basic - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year experience
High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Nice To Haves

Emergency Management (Novice)
Critical Thinking (Novice)
Assessing, Intervening & Stabilizing Patients (Novice)
Drug Interactions (Novice)

Responsibilities

Independently works off assessment skills to activate patient care protocols to deliver patient care within his/her full scope of practice as defined by the state of Tennessee and LifeFlight's scope of practice.
Maintains compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
Safety transport patients utilizing Vanderbilt and Unit specific safety, policy and procedure and accreditation standards.
Maintains equipment per regulatory and compliance standards.
Responsible for effective communication to ensure safe and quality patient care with team, transport and handover.
Complete documentation of transports/patient care performed using Vanderbilt and Unit specific compliance policy.
Communicate/collaborates effectively to meet patient and team needs.