Emergency+Medical+Services+Personnel



Emergency Medical Service Personnel

Average Pay & Training Salary- $19,229- $32,055 Hourly- $9.24- $15.41 Length of Training- up to 2 years

Job Summary They are the first to evaluate the nature and extent of a medical emergency. They determine things like how many people are injured, what injuries there are, which injuries are priority, and any pre-existing medical conditions. They then stabilize and quickly transport each patient to a health care facility safely.

// ‘Being a Paramedic involves 99% of the time sitting around, doing very little, and transferring routine patients to and from hospitals for routine procedures… and the other 1% treating someone in a medical emergency so extreme that you spend the whole time trying to keep your hands from shaking…’ - Australian Paramedic //

Levels of Training // ‘There are 176 known causes for a patient to lose consciousness… unless you have ruled out 175 of them, you have no right to say that your patient has just had a vasal vagal response’ – Melbourne Clinical Training Officer //
 * Emergency Care Attendant (ECA)
 * Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT-B)
 * Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate (EMT-I)
 * Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P)

Work Environment Emergency medical services personnel may work in a variety of settings. They have to be prepared to work in any environment because the communities rely on EMS personnel as the first responders to a medical emergency no matter where it happened.

My Reasons I am a proud Catholic and for a while now I’ve known that I wanted to work with or within the church. With some research I’ve found that I can combine my faith, my desire to help people, my enjoyment of health class and make a career out of it. Mission doctors must be prepared for emergency situations as they work in a fairly unstable and unpredictable environment.