Paramedic - Emergency Department - Full Time

At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. Health, dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

Long term disability coverage

Nine paid holidays which include two personal holidays

Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills

Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year

HRA – Flex spending accounts

Current Opening: One Full-time position; 12-hour shifts.

To remain in compliance with requirements from local, state, and federal officials. Performs the primary functions of evaluating, long term and short-term goals in treatment planning for patients, planning implementation, and ongoing assessment to all patients assigned. Is responsible for adhering to standards of ethics recognized by the Wyoming Department of Health and State Department of Emergency Services.

Is knowledgeable of and works within all pertinent, established Powell Valley Healthcare and PVHC Emergency Medical Services Policies, Procedures, and Protocols.

Triaging patients in varying degrees of distress and keeping the Emergency department RN informed on the status of patients in overflow situations.

Rooming patients in the Emergency Department.

Rounding and assessing patient and family needs in the Emergency Department and the waiting room.

Answers phone, operates radios, monitors various gauges and monitoring devices.

Provide coverage for admissions staff in the ED, switchboard, or patient intake related to the bedside registration process.

After normal business hours, obtains medical records and x-rays in accordance with specified departmental procedures.

Trained as drug-screen collectors in the ER.

Mentor new EMTs and Paramedics.

Assists in maintaining and stocking medical supplies and equipment.

Under the direction of the Emergency Department Medical Director or their designee, assists personnel in emergency treatment administered in the Emergency Department.

Serves in a leadership role for the Emergency Medical Services crew on duty and on call.

Provides problem solving for situations that require immediate solutions that affect the department’s operation, which may include but is not limited to, staffing on an emergency basis.

Documents assessments and care of patients on the Emergency Medical Services medical record. Assists in starting IVs, taking vital signs, helping turn or move patients as needed within the Emergency Department and in other areas of the organization.

For this position, a secondary job description is necessary for an Ambulance Paramedic. Current licensed Wyoming EMT-Paramedic

BLS, AHA CLS, AHA PALS, and PHTLS Healthcare Provider

Must meet current facility age requirement to drive specially equipped emergency vehicle to specific location of 23 years of age.

Operate a variety of equipment and tools.

Maintain confidential information.

Good customer service and interpersonal skills.

Ability to safely operate an ambulance in non-emergency and emergency driving conditions.

Must have a working knowledge of the geographic area, street systems, and demographics of PVHC Emergency Medical Services coverage area.

Extensive heavy lifting, pushing or pulling objects over 75 pounds, assistance or assistive devices will be used.

Use of tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity

Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, and working with equipment.

The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.

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