AirCare Paramedic - Ground Transport

Advocate Health; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health AirCare Paramedic - Ground Transport in North Carolina seeks skilled ALS Paramedics to provide professional pre-hospital care under NC EMS standards.

You will perform high-quality assessment and triage, manage airways and advanced interventions, document care in the EHR, ensure equipment readiness, and support safe patient transport.

A sign-on bonus is available for eligible applicants; two years of field experience and NC Paramedic certification are required.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or GED required.
• Accredited EMT-Paramedic training program required.
• North Carolina Paramedic certification required.
• BLS required.
• ACLS and PALS required to completing orientation.
• Two (2) years of clinical paramedic experience, including 1 year of active field pre-hospital experience.
• Advocate Health approved driving course within 90 days of hire.
• Valid driver’s license and insurability for driving AirCare vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality assessment and triage to determine patient needs.
• Operate specialized medical equipment and administer treatments.
• Document care and treatments in the EHR.
• Maintain vehicle readiness and ensure equipment is functioning.
• Transport patients under NC EMS protocols.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Triage & treatment

Communication

Ethical practice

Team coordination

Documentation

Patient safety

Education

EMT-Paramedic training program

North Carolina Paramedic certification

BLS certification

ACLS certification

PALS certification

Tools

Video laryngoscopy

Blind airway device (BAID)

Central line placement

Intraosseous placement

Ventilator management

Job description

AirCare Paramedic - Ground Transport

A sign-on bonus is available to applicants who have not received a sign-on bonus from the company for another role within the past 24 months.

What you’ll do:

The ALS Paramedic provides professional care through high-quality assessment, triage / treatment to assess the nature and extent of a patient’s illness / injury and prioritize the needed care. Provides comprehensive care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Paramedic must have strong clinical knowledge and skills necessary to care for patients of all ages with a diverse range of medical needs (infants – geriatric) operating specialized medical equipment and utilizing advanced skills. The Paramedic functions autonomously outside of the hospital environment under standards and protocols approved by the Medical Director as established by the NC Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS). The Paramedic must be proficient in advanced practice procedures to provide improved patient outcomes.

We’re Looking For:

• High school graduate or GED required
• Successful completion of an accredited EMT-Paramedic training program required
• North Carolina Paramedic certification required
• BLS required
• ACLS and PALS required to completing orientation
• Two (2) years of clinical paramedic experience required - to include one (1) year of active field pre-hospital experience required
• Advocate Health approved driving course to be completed within 90 days of hire
• Must have a valid driver’s license and qualify as insurable by Advocate Health insurance carrier requirements for driving AirCare vehicles

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer’s health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Practices ethically
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects the current Paramedic practice.
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality Paramedic practice.
• Communicate effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Evaluates own Paramedic practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide Paramedic services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Participates in committees, shared governance, or other facility decision making activities.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
• Models the mission, vision, values, standards of excellence and goals of the atrium health system.
• Supports and contributes to the patient centered care philosophy by understanding that every teammate is a caregiver whose role is to meet the needs of the patient.
• Independently initiates advanced practice procedures to provide improved patient outcomes depending on job and scope of practice such as video laryngoscopy, (BAID) Blind airway insertion device, needle chest decompression, central line placement (EJ), intraosseous placement, and initiation/titration of pharmacological agents.
• Initiates and sets up ventilation equipment. Operates, assesses, and manages patient airway support, ventilator settings and equipment.
• Ensures patient care equipment is in proper working order and all supplies are present by utilizing daily check-off sheets and reporting any known issues
• Ensures that the ambulance patient care area is clean, restocked, and kept in a neat and orderly condition at the beginning of each shift and when necessary to maintain a mission ready status.
• Must be capable of handling equipment challenges and failures without support of internal hospital resources.
• Obtains necessary signatures and paperwork for each transport
• Thoroughly documents medical care and treatments of patients in the EHR.
• Must maintain annual compliance in education related to specialty area and/or primary base location outside of typical Paramedic practice.
  • Simulation lab
  • Mechanical Ventilator Management/Lab
  • Certified Emergency Vehicle Operations
  • Sleep Deprivation/Just Culture/Stress Management