A. My career speech outline is on being a paramedic. The reason I chose being a nurse is because I think It would be a very fun and challenging job. I would always be moving around from place to place taking patients to and from the hospital.
B. Being a paramedic is basically running to go try and save someone's life. Some of the advantages being a paramedic is the satisfaction of being able to save someone's life, you get to become someone's hero, you can also make new friends and you can leave the day feeling proud of what you did for someone.
C. Some of the disadvantages are have to work long hours without any breaks because paramedics work for two days straight and they are off for one day. Another disadvantage is having …show more content…
JOB DESCRIPTION:
1. The definition of paramedic is a person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or to assist physicians in providing medical care.
2. Some of the duties/responsibilities of being a paramedic is the paramedic must be a confident leader who can accept the challenge and high degree of responsibility entailed in the position. The paramedic is personally responsible for each drug administered, for using the correct precautions and techniques, observing the documenting the effects of drugs administered.
3. To be a paramedic, you must have good communication skills and clear judgment and thinking skills when it comes to a life or death situation.
Another skill you must have an order to be a paramedic is the physical and emotional stamina because at anytime on the job there is a life or death situation, and you must be able to drive under emergency conditions.
4. For a beginner, The salary in the United States for paramedics is 16 - 25 dollars an hour. An experienced paramedic that has been working for 6 years and up can make from 40 to 50 dollars an hour.
5. Recently nursing employment has been rising, They predict that employment will increase 9 percent each year from 2008 to