Summary

Primary Care and Advanced Care Paramedics have the interchangeable role of driver and attendant, who provide effective assessment, treatment and transportation of patients to medical and/or any other facility. This is accomplished with respect for the patient’s needs and confidentiality.

Key Responsibilities

• Attending at scene as warranted by priority of assignment
• Assessing scene for hazards
• Carrying out triage (establishing priority to treatment) in multiple patient situations and calling for additional assistance as required
• Assessing, evaluating and interpreting primary and/or secondary survey finding to determine the clinical significance of patients signs and symptoms
• Being responsible for directing all aspects of patient care while attending with another Advance Care Paramedic and when working with a Primary Care Paramedic
• May be required to apply a variety of medical treatments and interpretations such as inserting and/or monitoring or maintaining intravenous or intraosseous fluid infusions
• Administering a wide range of drugs by various routes as authorized
• Using advanced patient care and monitoring techniques including performing endotracheal intubation procedures using a laryngoscope, Magill forceps, mechanical ventilation devices and other advanced techniques and equipment to restore or replace airway patency and respiration
• Performing suctioning procedures and needle thoracostomy as required
• Operating a cardiac monitor, manual and /or semi-automatic defibrillator, to monitor cardiac rhythms and deliver electrical charges and restore an effective heartbeat when indicated
• Monitoring and responding to complications and/or critical variances in the patient’s condition
• Initiating alternative basic and/or advanced procedures to restore or replace vital functions and manage and control illness and injuries
• Conducting a primary survey of the patient to establish airway, breathing, circulatory and neurological status and disabilities
• Collecting vital signs, medical and/or incident history, and/or cardiac monitoring readings from monitor/defibrillators
• Immobilizing actual or suspected fractures and spinal injuries and bandaging and treating hemorrhages, wounds and environmental injuries
• Performing other emergency medical care duties as required
• Monitoring and reassessing patient to detect condition variances and re-initiating basic and/or advanced care procedures; this may involve skills and procedures which require medical control to restore, improve or maintain vital functions and stabilize illness and injuries; requesting directions and/or referring matters not covered by established standards and guidelines and protocols to other qualified personnel and recording of such guidelines and direction, including the name of the person giving it
• Reporting by radio to a dispatch centre the destination, priority and patient condition and particulars and attaining direct link to a base hospital as required; ensuring effective communications by established guidelines when consulting with medical staff by radio or telephone
• Preparing documentation and reporting using medical formats and pharmaceutical terminology to provide hospital staff with a complete clinical picture of pre-hospital/inter-hospital working assessment and prescription of treatment or to substantiate initiation of standardized protocols of care
• Driving safely to and from scene as warranted by the priority of assignment; activating warning equipment as required; following service specific policies with regard to this
• Informing hospital staff and passengers of safety in and around ambulance vehicles.

Qualifications

• As per the Regulations of the Ontario Ambulance Act O. Reg. 257/00 PART III, as well as future amendments hereto
• Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience as an ACP (preferred)
• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Advanced Care Paramedic certificate
• Advanced Care Paramedic College Diploma
• Base Hospital Certification

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