Paramedic: PRN

Position Highlights:

• Work/life: Minimum 24 hours/month; 12 hours being a weekend shift. You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.

• Employee-centric: 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.

• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted "Best Coastal Small Town in America". You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area's largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are "big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you". We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

The Paramedic is a member of the Emergency Department team that delivers care to patients with varying degrees of acute illness or injury. This care is delivered through the limited process of patient sorting, information gathering, and intervention under the supervision of the Emergency Department physician and registered nurse.

The Paramedic will effectively interact with patients, their families and significant others, and other members of the health care team while maintaining standards of emergency care, at all times acting within parameters of Ohio State Law.

The Paramedic is expected to be an active member of the Emergency team and actively seek out and participate in the delivery of patient care.

At direction of physician or RN:

• Assists with assessment by information gathering.

• Assists with instruction and patient/family.

• Documents patient information.

• Documents patient care rendered.

• Communicates patient information.

• Functions to perform life-saving or limb-saving measures.

• Recognizes cardiac dysrhythmias and performs ACLS intervention.

• Intubates the patient under direct physician supervision and at physician direction.

• Delivers care to patients as directed including comfort measures, pain control measures (not to include medications), emotional/supportive care, provision of general information to patient questions.

• Insertion of straight catheter for obtaining urine sample of measurement of residual urine.

• Insertion of indwelling Foley catheter.

• 12-lead EKG with appropriate labeling.

• Initiation of cardiac monitoring.

• Initiation of IV/IO and infusion of fluids manually or by infusion device at the physician ordered rate, or initiation of a saline lock.

• Insertion of nasogastric or orogastric tube.

• Wound preparation for suturing and suture tray preparation; assists physician with suturing, if needed.

• Cleanse wounds/dress wounds with appropriate dressing materials.

• Application of commercially manufactured splint, sling, ace wrap, cock-up, air casts, soft or rigid C-collar, soft cast, knee and shoulder immobilizer, clavicle strap,

• Initiate aerosol treatments per physician order.

• Applies oxygen by non-rebreather, mask, nasal cannula, BVM, as needed.

• Assists with application of soft or Tuff Cuff restraints.

• Initiation of seizure precautions.

• Measure vital signs, including orthostatic vital signs.

• Obtain specimens for lab testing: blood, urine, sputum, RSV, throat swab, wound culture, sends to lab with appropriate label.

• Performs ISTAT procedure and QA daily.

• Female Paramedic may assist with pelvic/vaginal exams, labeling specimens appropriately.

• Fingerstick blood sugar.

• Assists with lumbar puncture.

• Visual acuity.

• Eye and ear irrigation.

• Wound irrigation, manual and pulse-evac.

• Set up sterile equipment and supplies for procedures.

• Trauma/stroke team member.

• Maintains unit by assisting with stocking bedside equipment, keeping linen bags emptied, stocking bedside linen, stocking suture carts, cleaning carts and patient care areas, keeping hallways clear of extra equipment.

• Tags non-functioning equipment for Clinical Engineering and completes work order.

• Assists with assuring the safety of co-workers, patients, visitors, and themselves.

• Charges for equipment and supplies.

• Assists with ordering supplies, if designated.

What You Will Need:

• Must be a graduate of an accredited program of paramedic training.

• Must possess a current certification as an EMT-Paramedic from the State of Ohio; National Registry is preferred.

• Minimum of one year's experience in pre-hospital emergency care.

• Must be currently certified in BLS and ACLS; PALS within one year of employment.

• Works with acutely ill patients, including emergency situations.

• Knowledgeable of equipment used in clinical area (see unit-specific competency base orientation [CBO], location of reference manuals, and resources for consultation.)

• Ability to read and write small letters and numbers and perform complex arithmetic and financial application.