Western Piedmont Community College

On-the-job Training

• Safety
  • Safely drive an emergency medical vehicle in adverse conditions and according to motor vehicle laws
  • Cleans and sanitizes ambulance and equipment daily, ensures they are in proper and good working order, makes routine adjustments, but reports other than minor defects for specialized attention
• Maintain medical services vehicle and supplies
  • Inspects and tests ambulances and their emergency equipment, maintaining proper inventory of equipment and supplies
  • Cleans and sanitizes ambulance and equipment daily, ensures they are in proper and good working order, makes routine adjustments, but reports other than minor defects for specialized attention
  • knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in emergency care of patients and accident victims
• Patient evaluation
  • Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
  • Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
  • Comfort and reassure patients
• Records management and communication
  • Accurately record services provided on required forms
  • Knowledge of county geography and locations of roads and streets
  • Respond quickly and calmly in emergncies and stressful situations
  • Maintain confidentiality of patient contact
  • Work with co-workers, law enforcement personnel, fire, medical personnel, patients and the general public
  • Knowledge of intravenous therapy and skill in recognizing adverse conditions
• Medical emergency for serious and life-threatening clinical situation
  • Establishes an intravenous or intraosseous line in a peripheral vein and administer any intravenous solution approved by the Board of Medical Examiners for use by EMT-Ps.
  • Obtains blood for laboratory analysis
  • Administers parenterally, orally, sublingual, or topically any of the drugs approved by the Board of Medical Examiners for use by EMT-Ps
  • Performs pulmonary ventilation by means of an endotracheal tube and/or perform cricothyrotomy for relief of upper airway obstruction.
  • Performs defibrillation or cardioversion
  • Uses gas-powered or hand-powered nebulizers
  • Decompress a tension pneumothorax by use of a catheter-flutter-valve device.
  • Uses positive end expiratory pressure respirators
  • Performs gastric suction by intubation
  • Performs urinary catheterization
  • Performs external cardiac pacing
• Administer intravenous medications
  • Establishes an intravenous or intraosseous line in a peripheral vein
  • Administer any intravenous solution
  • Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures
• Pulseless non-breathing patient clinical situation
  • Performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • Defibrillation
  • Pulmonary ventilation by means of an endotracheal tube
  • Administer appropriate cardiac drugs prior to contacting the sponsor hospital
• Ability to perform the following procedures as the situation requires
  • Patient assessment;
  • Basic life support techniques in accordance with the American Heart Association or American Red Cross including airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  • Oxygen administration
  • Hemorrhage control
  • Treatment for shock
  • Bandaging and dressing soft tissue injuries
  • Application of military anti-shock trousers
  • Splinting fractures and dislocations
  • Treatment of injuries to the head, face, eye, neck, and spine
  • Treatment of injuries to the chest, abdomen and genitalia
  • Provision of basic life support for medical injuries
  • Assisting in normal and abnormal childbirth
  • Treatment of injuries as a result of exposure to heat and cold
  • Treatment of burns
  • Lifting and moving patients for transfer to a medical facility
  • Extrication of patients from confined areas
  • Patient assessment