ER Paramedic

• Closes: Open Until Filled
• Status: Full-time

At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. We are located in the heart of Powell, Wyoming; just 25 miles outside of Cody. We believe in creating positive and safe environments for both our patients and our staff. Being part of our organization means becoming a cornerstone in the patient experience and their care. 

Here at PVHC, we offer a wide array of benefits in a way that allows you to choose options and build a package that works best for you. Some of the benefits we offer include:

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long term disability coverage
• PTO - New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year
• EIB (Extended Illness Bank) - Our version of accrued sick leave
• Nine paid holidays which includes two personal holidays
• Tuition Savings Plan
• Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills
• Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year
• Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount
• HRA – Flex spending accounts

POSITION SUMMARY:

Current Opening: Two Full-time positions; 36 hours per week - 12 hour shifts. One PRN position; various 12 hour shifts based on need of department. Shifts will either be from 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM or 7:00 PM - 7:00 AM.

To provide courteous, efficient and professional services/support to patients and co-workers. To remain in compliance with requirements from local, state, and federal officials. Performs the primary functions of evaluating, long term and short term goals in treatment planning for patients, planning implementation, and ongoing assessment to all patients assigned. Is responsible for adhering to standards of ethics recognized by the Wyoming Department of Health and State Department of Emergency Services.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Is knowledgeable of and works within all pertinent, established Powell Valley Healthcare and PVHC Emergency Medical Services Policies, Procedures, and Protocols.
• Triaging patients in varying degrees of distress and keeping the Emergency department RN informed on the status of patients in overflow situations.
• Rooming patients in the Emergency Department.
• Rounding and assessing patient and family needs in the Emergency Department and the waiting room.
• Answers assist the RN in the care of the patient using the delegation model.
• Operates PVHC paging system.
• Answers phone, operates radios, monitors various gauges and monitoring devices.
• Provide coverage for admissions staff in the ED, switchboard, or patient intake related to the bedside registration process.
• After normal business hours, obtains medical records and x-rays in accordance with specified departmental procedures.
• Trained as drug-screen collectors in the ER.
• Conducts patient call-backs.
• Mentor new EMT’s and Paramedics.
• Assists in maintaining and stocking medical supplies and equipment.
• Under the direction of the Emergency Department Medical Director or their designee, assists personnel in emergency treatment administered in the Emergency Department.
• Serves in a leadership role for the Emergency Medical Services crew on duty and on call.
• Provides problem solving for situations that require immediate solutions that effect the department’s operation, which may include but is not limited to, staffing on an emergency basis.
• Documents assessments and care of patients on the Emergency Medical Services medical record. This includes all associated reports and run logs.
• Assists in starting IV’s, take vital signs, help turn or move patients as needed within the Emergency Department and in other areas of the organization.
• Administer medications and assists in procedures within their scope of practice and under the direction of the ED or Hospitalist physician.
• For this position, a secondary job description is necessary for an Ambulance Paramedic. Please see the secondary job description for these duties.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Current licensed Wyoming EMT-Paramedic
• BLS, AHA CLS, AHA PALS, and PHTLS Health care Provider
• OSHA trained (preferred).
• Must meet current facility age requirement to drive specially equipped emergency vehicle to specific location of 23 years of age.
• Current Wyoming Drivers License.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Strong critical thinking.
• Strong decision making skills.
• Operate a variety of equipment and tools.
• Take verbal orders or standing orders and carry them out in a patient care situation.
• Maintain confidential information.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Interact with a variety of people in a variety of settings in stressful situations.
• Ability to safely operate an ambulance in non-emergency and emergency driving conditions.
• Must have a working knowledge of the geographic area, street systems, and demographics of PVHC Emergency Medical Services coverage area.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Frequently lifting of objects weighing 25 to 50 pounds
• Extensive heavy lifting, pushing or pulling objects over 75 pounds, assistance or assistive devices will be used.
• Use of tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, and working with equipment.
• Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
• The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.

• Posted on: July 24, 2023
• Categories: Emergency Services