General Paramedic

A paramedic is a highly skilled health care professional who plays a crucial role in providing advanced emergency medical care to critical and emergent patients accessing the emergency medical system. They specialize in delivering specialized care and treatment to individuals involved in accidents, emergencies, or other crises. Paramedics possess the necessary equipment and medications typically found only in hospital emergency departments to examine, evaluate, and treat patients. General Responsibilities: 1. Driving and staffing ambulances and other emergency vehicles 2. Responding to emergency 999 calls 3. Assessing patients, providing emergency treatment, and making diagnoses 4. Monitoring and administering medication, pain relief, and intravenous infusions 5. Dressing wounds/injuries 6. Using specialist equipment including ventilators and defibrillators 7. Transporting patients to the hospital and continuing treatment during transit 8. Providing hospital staff with patient information, including condition and treatment 9. Assisting in patient care within hospitals and medical facilities 10. Effectively communicating with patients and their relatives/friends 11. Teaching and training members of the public in correct first aid techniques