Job Family: 29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners

Job Family: 29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners Occupational Group: 29-2040 Technologists and Technicians, Health OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY: HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: TECHNOLOGISTS AND TECHNICIANS, HEALTH

OCCUPATION: EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN & PARAMEDIC 29-2041

BROADBAND LEVELS: Level 3 – Pay Band 005

DESCRIPTION

Assess injuries, administer emergency medical care, and extricate trapped individuals. Transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Administers first-aid treatment and life support care to sick or injured persons in pre- hospital setting.

Assists in removal and transport of victims to treatment center.

Assesses nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.

Observes, records, and reports patient's condition, and reactions to drugs and treatment, to physician.

Monitors patient's condition, using electrocardiograph.

Communicates with treatment center personnel to arrange reception of victims and to receive instructions for further treatment.

Assists treatment center personnel to obtain and record victim's vital statistics, and to administer emergency treatment.

Assists treatment center personnel to obtain information relating to circumstances of emergency.

Drives mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher.

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Maintains vehicles and medical and communication equipment, and replenishes first-aid equipment and supplies.

EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS

Assisting and Caring for Others Providing assistance or personal care to others. Updating and Using Job-Relevant Keeping up-to-date technically and knowing Knowledge one's own jobs' and related jobs' functions.

Monitor Processes, Material, Monitoring and reviewing information from Surroundings materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished. Identifying Objects, Actions, and Identifying information received by making Events estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing changes in circumstances or events. Getting Information Needed to Do the Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining Job information from all relevant sources.

Performing General Physical Activities Performing physical activities that require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials. Communicating With Other Workers Providing information to supervisors, fellow workers, and subordinates. This information can be exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via telephone/electronic transfer. Making Decisions and Solving Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with Problems information and data to make decisions and solve problems. These processes involve making decisions about the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution. Processing Information Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, verifying, or processing information or data.

of 4 Job Family: 29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners Occupational Group: 29-2040 Technologists and Technicians, Health Analyzing Data or Information Identifying underlying principles, reasons, or facts by breaking down information or data into separate parts. Establishing and Maintaining Developing constructive and cooperative Relationships working relationships with others.

Making Decisions and Solving Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with Problems information and data to make decisions and solve problems. These processes involve making decisions about the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution.

EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Coordination Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions

Problem Identification Identifying the nature of problems

Speaking Talking to others to effectively convey information

Operation Monitoring Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly

Judgment and Decision Making Weighing the relative costs and benefits of a potential action

Service Orientation Actively looking for ways to help people

Active Listening Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate

Operation and Control Controlling operations of equipment or systems

Equipment Selection Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job

Critical Thinking Using logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches

Medicine and Dentistry Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat injuries,

of 4 Job Family: 29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners Occupational Group: 29-2040 Technologists and Technicians, Health diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures

Therapy and Counseling Knowledge of information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and to provide career guidance including alternative treatments, rehabilitation equipment and its proper use, and methods to evaluate treatment effects

Transportation Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including their relative costs, advantages, and limitations

Biology Knowledge of plant and animal living tissue, cells, organisms, and entities, including their functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment

Telecommunications Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

This occupation requires certification as an Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic in accordance with Chapter 401, Florida Statutes.

EFFECTIVE: 03/17/2003 History: 07/01/2002