Paramedic
EMT AND PARAMEDIC RESERCH
Electrical shocks, heart attacks, stabbings, gunshot wounds--emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, never know what they must deal with when they respond to a 9-1-1 call. For this reason, and due to their role in preserving life, EMT training is varied, extensive and takes places in steps. A paramedic is an EMT with advanced levels of training.
1. Paramedic
2. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics care for the sick or injured in emergency medical settings. People’s lives often depend on their quick reaction and competent care. EMTs and paramedics respond to emergency calls, performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities.
3. As a paramedic, you would need to stay calm while dealing with life and death situations, to be highly skilled, quick thinking and decisive at the same time as providing a reassuring environment for the patient and relatives. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a serious interest in the care and well-being of patients, and the academic ability to cope with examinations. You would also need to be physically fit and emotionally resilient.
4. 33%, higher then most.
5. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics held about 226,500 jobs in 2010. They work both indoors and outdoors, in all types of weather. Their work is physically strenuous and can be stressful, sometimes involving life-or-death situations and patients who are suffering. Most career EMTs and paramedics work in metropolitan areas. Volunteer EMTs and paramedics are more common in small cities, towns, and rural areas. These individuals volunteer for fire departments, providers of emergency medical services, or hospitals and may respond to only a few calls per month.
6. Paramedics have the most advanced level of training. You have to become an EMT-basic level, then you can move up to become a paramedic.
7. What did you learn about this career that was surprising to you?
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Electrical shocks, heart attacks, stabbings, gunshot wounds--emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, never know what they must deal with when they respond to a 9-1-1 call. For this reason, and due to their role in preserving life, EMT training is varied, extensive and takes places in steps. A paramedic is an EMT with advanced levels of training.
1. Paramedic
2. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics care for the sick or injured in emergency medical settings. People’s lives often depend on their quick reaction and competent care. EMTs and paramedics respond to emergency calls, performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities.
3. As a paramedic, you would need to stay calm while dealing with life and death situations, to be highly skilled, quick thinking and decisive at the same time as providing a reassuring environment for the patient and relatives. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a serious interest in the care and well-being of patients, and the academic ability to cope with examinations. You would also need to be physically fit and emotionally resilient.
4. 33%, higher then most.
5. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics held about 226,500 jobs in 2010. They work both indoors and outdoors, in all types of weather. Their work is physically strenuous and can be stressful, sometimes involving life-or-death situations and patients who are suffering. Most career EMTs and paramedics work in metropolitan areas. Volunteer EMTs and paramedics are more common in small cities, towns, and rural areas. These individuals volunteer for fire departments, providers of emergency medical services, or hospitals and may respond to only a few calls per month.
6. Paramedics have the most advanced level of training. You have to become an EMT-basic level, then you can move up to become a paramedic.
7. What did you learn about this career that was surprising to you?
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