Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)/Paramedics Joseph Angell 11/23/2010 Dr. Wannamaker GUST 1270 Intro: Paramedics are emergency medical technicians more commonly known as EMT’s. EMT’s provide emergency treatment for the ill or injured on a scene and during en route to a medical facility. EMT’s are called upon at all hours of the day or night; typically the first medical specialist that a patient will call upon in an emergency. Paramedics are trained to provide lifesaving pre-hospital care in emergency situations. The range of medical services varies according to the level of training and/or certification. Question #1: What education/training is required for your entry into the career you have chosen? Answer: …show more content…
Answer: EMT’s and Paramedics with advanced education and certifications have the most favorable job prospect as clients and patients demand a higher level of care. Question: What salary can you expect? Answer: This varies based on the level of certification and type of employer. Those working in the public sector for police, fire, and health departments general receive a higher wage. Median can expect as low as $27,100 to high earning more than $45,300. Question: What are YOUR long-term expectations in this career area?) Answer: EMT’s can become supervisors, operation managers, directors, executive directors of emergency services or even sales and marketing of medical equipment. At this point, I am uncertain of my long term intentions as an EMT I am certain that one avenue I have thought of exploring is a physical therapist. Time will tell. Question #3: How do you see YOUSELF fitting into this career? Answer: I fell that I will fit in to this career as I have worked as a life guard which touches on the very basics of swimming and pool life safety. I enjoyed being with people and helping when needed. I also enjoyed the management side overseeing employees, and daily responsibilities. Question: What personality characteristics are required? Answer: A desire to serve people, emotionally stable and clearheaded. Inspire confidence with levelheadedness and good judgment. Good physical condition,
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An EMT must be able to multi task under pressure, develop good communication skills, and work as a team member to help the patient in need. A year ago, when I played basketball and volleyball for my school, I had to learn how to listen to my other teammates and the people in the bleachers cheering while still focusing on the task at hand. There were times when I had to block the ball from a really good hitter during volleyball and people depended on me to keep the ball on their side. There is also the pressure to make the last point in the game to win. These experiences are similar to those of an EMT because both must think fast in order to get the job done.
Job Specifications: A paramedic is an out of the hospital or prehospital job. They usually work in an ambulance, providing first aid for the sick and injured before sent or on the way to the hospital. They are also responsible for providing information about to the patient, their injuries and the treatment already given, to the physician upon arrival to the hospital.
My career of Emergency Medical Technician has many aspects. It pays $15.24 an hour and $31.700 a year. Emergency Medical Technician entails are responding to emergency calls and providing care to the ill and sick. After receiving the call they find a location and address given and head there
While working in the emergency department for my clinical this week I could see the staff members that help in the emergency department. There are RNs, EMTs that have different certifications like BLS or ALS, a nurse practitioner, and doctors. In the emergency department, they have staff members from different parts of the hospital to assess the patients. Radiology comes down to get X-rays on the patients for a closer look at their heart. The patients who come into the ER with shortness of air, chest pains, numbness in the extremities and dizziness with signs of fatigue are ordered an X-ray. The lab can come to draw the patient's blood or the nurse will draw up the patient's blood and then send it to the lab. More patients come in with chest pains or shortness of air while in the ER,
Emergency medical technicians are licensed and/or certified health-care providers that are out-of-hospital. They immediately respond to the scene of an emergency, assess the safety hazards of the scene, and transport patients to institutions. (Beck, 2013) An emergency medical technician-paramedic takes on the additional tasks of giving medication and using various complex equipment. The competence and hasty reactions of EMTs can save the lives of patients and get them to the emergency room physician. Although education differs state to state, every emergency medical technician-paramedic must receive a high school diploma or GED and become certified for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). (“Emts and paramedics,” 2014) They must also
Mr.Gary, a Paramedic yesterday came and talked to us about what paramedics or EMS do in their line of career. Starting off there are 3 levels of EMT: Basic EMT, Advanced EMT, and Paramedic. To be an EMT you can go through state training to become a certified EMT or go through a college and become a licensed EMT; along with this is 220 class & lab hours(class can be online or live class.)
Paramedics are health care professionals who provide rapid response, emergency medical assessment, treatment and care in out of hospital’s environments.. Victoria University has been running Para medicine since 1995. The currently have 13 full time staff members, 40 sessional staff member 750 students who are currently enrolled in the course and 200 of those students are online.
To become an EMT you'll need a high school diploma or GED and formal emergency training. There are three levels of EMT training . Emergency Medical
When I took the quiz, I was given realistic and investigative. After considering the fields that were best suited I saw Emergency Medical Technician or EMT. I choose this field because my father is a paramedic so I have grown up in the medical field. The pros of the job are helping save someone’s life, giving medication to someone in need, and simply being there when they need a hand. Countless times my dad would go on calls where the person would just want someone to listen and talk too. The cons about the job are that not every life in your hand you will save, and some of the people only are out to get the drugs in your ambulance. So, you must figure out which ones are really in need.
Working in an emergency room can be challenging and very high pace working environment. My job is consists of stocking supplies, helping nurses and doctors one on one, helping patients when they need assistants, and check patients in. It also depends on the mood of the nurses and doctors which makes it a fun environment to work in, but there is times I ask myself “Have I made a mistake being an ER tech?”.
They immediately respond to an emergency call from the victims or concerned individuals. In United States, when someone calls 911 for help, paramedics are being dispatched to provide immediate care. They are readily available to respond and give first aid duties to the sick and injured people. Paramedics are not only good in medical situations; they are also trained to minimize commotion and accidents like fires and domestic abuse in the society. Helping other Medical Professionals Generally, the role of every paramedic is to provide care to the sick and injured outside the hospitals.
There is such a shortage of EMT’s in the workforce that people actually have to step in to take their place and do their job for them. An article by Katie Gibbons explains that there are plenty of patients who are exposed to more danger after they are initially harmed because firefighters are being sent to the scene in place of paramedics because of the lack of EMT’s. Some fire chiefs say they are “ill-equipped for medical emergencies”. ("Lives at risk”) Firefighters are very smart people who are experienced in putting out fires, but when it comes to saving people from serious injuries, they just do not have the skill sets required. To solve this problem, EMT-paramedics should make way more money, because if they were, more people would consider it as their
Gary Williams and Diane Powell told us about EMS and EMT. Mr. Williams said that basic EMT is a lot of driving. There are 120 hours of training in classroom time and clinical time all together. Mr. Gary took his test at Lamar University, and Paramedics is 480 hours. There is 3 levels to EMT and there is 2 different routes. They only travel in the county, if the hospital can’t help the person in need, they travel farther like Galveston and Houston. You have to have labs on and in ambulance, and the Paramedics get course completion. You can advance to mid-level addition, and 180 hours you can do more advanced treatments. Paramedics work 448 hours to be able to read EKG/ ECG, and that takes pictures of what the heart is doing. At some hospitals,
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