About This Role
This full-time Paramedic position involves joining the EMS team and working 24-hour shifts. The role focuses on delivering exceptional patient care by prioritizing safety and quality, enhancing patient outcomes, and ensuring operational efficiency. It supports the Clarinda Regional Health Center's dedication to fostering a safe, compassionate, and high-quality healthcare environment.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Basic Life Support (BLS) interventions such as airway support, bleeding control, splinting, CPR, and oxygen therapy
- Conduct rapid primary and thorough secondary assessments
- Administer medications and fluids through peripheral IV access
- Manage supraglottic airways and reassess patient conditions
- Operate EMS communication equipment per CRHC policy
- Document care and provide handoff reports to receiving facilities
- Maintain ambulance readiness, cleanliness, and inventory
- Assist with patient movement and care within the emergency department, as appropriate
- Provide ALS-level emergency care to critically ill and injured patients during 911 responses and interfacility transports
- Initiate and manage advanced airway techniques including endotracheal intubation
- Initiate and manage IV/IO access and fluid/medication administration
- Initiate and manage cardiac monitoring and arrhythmia interpretation/management
- Initiate and manage pain management and sedation protocols
- Initiate and manage trauma interventions including spinal immobilization and hemorrhage control
- Perform timely, accurate assessments and deliver care in accordance with approved EMS protocols
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with EMS partners, receiving staff, and medical control
- Operate emergency vehicles safely and ensure all ambulance equipment is functional, clean, and stocked
- Complete documentation, reports, and billing records in accordance with CRHC and regulatory standards
- Assist in the emergency department with triage, documentation, and clinical care within scope of practice
- Respond to 911 calls (BLS and ALS), facility transfers, stand-by assignments, and community events in a timely and professional manner
- Provide safe, effective, and compassionate patient care in compliance with EMS protocols, scope of practice, and hospital policies
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, healthcare team members, and providers regarding patient care and condition changes
- Maintain accurate, timely documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and billing information
- Maintain ambulance cleanliness, readiness, equipment functionality, and restocking procedures according to CRHC and regulatory standards
