Paramedic

CommonSpirit Health•Red Bluff, CA

19d

About The Position

As a Paramedic, you will provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients in pre-hospital and inter-facility settings. Every day you will rapidly assess scenes, evaluate conditions, and administer life-saving interventions, while safely operating emergency vehicles and documenting care. To be successful, you will demonstrate expert clinical skills, exceptional critical thinking under stress, and compassionate communication, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Maintains established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program and safety standards. Performs patient systems assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner. Enters patient data into computerized patient care reporting system so that there are no deficiencies. Performs direct patient care and implements patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner while administering medications and performing procedures consistent with EMT certification. Administers medications and performs procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols. Participates in problem identification and patient care planning.

Requirements

Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. and Hiring manager may consider the applicants field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed.
Driver's License: CA, upon hire
Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire
Basic Life Support - CPR (must be through the American Heart Association) upon hire
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, (must be through the American Heart Association)
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, (must be through the American Heart Association)
CDMC, upon hire
Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA, upon hire
Local Paramedic Accrediated, upon hire

Responsibilities

Provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients
Rapidly assess scenes and evaluate conditions
Administer life-saving interventions
Safely operate emergency vehicles
Document care
Maintain established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program and safety standards
Perform patient systems assessment/data collection
Enter patient data into computerized patient care reporting system
Perform direct patient care and implements patient care
Administer medications and perform procedures consistent with EMT certification
Administer medications and perform procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols
Participate in problem identification and patient care planning