Flight Paramedic

Flight Paramedic 

Job Description Summary: The Paramedic Lead is responsible for ensuring smooth day-to-day operations by facilitating communication between field staff and leadership, monitoring system status and making time-critical decisions, reporting daily issues and achievements to leadership, acting as a role model to field employees, and providing coaching opportunities when standards are not upheld.

Responsibilities

Flight Nurse/Flight Paramedic duties

• Provides pre-hospital advanced life support care from initial contact until patient care is relinquished to the accepting medical facility maintaining thorough patient care documentation.
• Knowledgeable in the use and routine malignance of all equipment and supplies used by emergency programs.
• Attends pre-mission briefings and mission debriefing and completes necessary documentation.
• Assists in pre-mission liftoff checklist and pilot assistance when needed, i.e., radio, navigational and visual observation activities.
• Conducts aircraft safety briefings as needed.
• Maintains awareness of current issues related to pre-hospital care through participation in professional activities, i.e., national, state legislative-elected or appointed.
• Complies with safety standards to assure safety of self, medical personnel, patient, and equipment prior to liftoff.
• Functions as a medical flight member

Administrative duties as a medical crew member

• Responsible for the completion and submission of Flight Records
• Responsible for daily Narcotic count
• Maintains competency in knowledge and psychomotor skills by participating in ongoing laboratory and clinical experiences.
• Maintains documentation of required licensure, certifications, continuing education, safety, and advanced procedures in the base files.
• Maintains positive interpersonal relationships with colleagues, EMS representatives, hospitals, and the public.
• Participates regularly in departmental activities, projects, and committees.
• Attends and participates in meetings according to established base guidelines.
• Acts as a preceptor and/or participates in orientation of new employees.
• Maintains awareness of current issues related to pre-hospital care through participation in professional activities, i.e., national, state legislative-elected or appointed.

Clinical

• Collaborates with Clinical Practices team, program director, medical director to provide base level QA/QI information to flight staff.
• Collaborates with the Clinical Staff Development Specialist, Regional Educator, program directors, medical directors, and Regional Manager of Clinical practices to provide training programs based on QA trends.
• Assists with coordinating outreach education courses along with other base staff.
• Serves in a supportive role to crew members and PD to assure timely completion and reporting of annual OSHA required training (blood borne pathogens, back safety, TB skin testing etc.)
• Provides mentorship/orientation for new employees assigned to the base within the scope of practice.
• Assists as needed and available with the regionally based initial and recurrent training for employees.
• Works with Base staff, Clinical Practice educators, Director of clinical practices and clinical development to determine base educational needs.
• Verifies and reports to clinical practices the completion of required annual skills for each base staff member and maintains records of annual skills in a base file.
• Assists as needed with quarterly competency training to base staff as outlined by the Director of Clinical Practices, Staff Development, and Medical Directors.
• Works with the Program Director to reconcile base narcotic compliance to include ordering, tracking, and returns as directed by the Controlled Substance Specialist
• Works with the Program Director to reconcile Blood transfusion reports to include ordering, tracking, and returns.

Qualifications

Education:

• High school diploma required.
• Must meet the requirements of a Flight Nurse or Flight Paramedic

Skills:

• PHTLS or BTLS, NRP, BCLS, ACLS, and PALS completed prior to flight status.
• FP-C or CCPC required.
• CCRN, CFRN and EMT as required by state.
• Must acquire/maintain instructor status in: ACLS, PALS, PHTLS and/or ITLS and BLS
• Ability to read analyze, and interpret health and flight-related journals, hospital reports, and job specific legal documents.
• Ability to respond to inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to perform mathematical functions.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Experience:

• Must meet the minimum requirements for a Flight Nurse or Flight Paramedic
• One year of full-time employment with the Company is preferred.
• Must have completed full clinical internship.

Why Choose Air Evac Lifeteam? As a leader in helicopter air ambulance services, Air Evac Lifeteam is one of Global Medical Response’s (GMR) family of solutions. Our GMR teams deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services. View the stories on how our employees provide care to the world at www.AtaMomentsNotice.com. Learn how our values are at the core of our services and vital to how we approach care and check out our comprehensive benefit options at GlobalMedicalResponse.com/Careers.

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