Description LifeFlight Flight Paramedic Requisition #1900666 Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Click Here To View The VUMC Promise of Discovery Department/Unit Summary Vanderbilt LifeFlight is Tennessee's premiere air medical transport program, providing service via helicopters, one fixed wing aircraft (airplane) and four ground ambulances. Our team has an accident-free safety record since its inception in 1984. We accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Trauma Systems (CAMTS). We transport to all Nashville hospitals and have immediate access to the region's only Level I Trauma Center, Burn Center and Children's Hospital, all at Vanderbilt. Our helicopters will carry a Nurse/MD, Nurse/Nurse or Nurse/Paramedic team. All RN helicopter crew members are dual licensed with both RN and EMT-P or EMT multi-state licenses. Vanderbilt LifeFlight is nationally-recognized for our advanced set of protocols and our flight medicine practitioners' generous scope of practice including:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Through our affiliation with Vanderbilt's School of Medicine, the training and learning opportunities we offer can provide a pathway for you to take your patient care skills to the highest level. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ranks 15th out of 114 accredited medical schools, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of graduate education programs and health disciplines, released in the 2015 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools. Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, ranks 9th in NIH funding. You will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the best doctors, nurses and researchers in the United States. Some of the many training programs available to you are:
Safety Record Vanderbilt LifeFlight has an accident-free safety record. We are an IFR program. Aircraft Our aircraft fleet includes the following aircraft: EC145, EC-135, and EC-130. Our fixed-wing aircraft is a Pilatus PC-12. Position Shift: Our flight medicine personnel normally work one 24-hour shift and one 12-hour shift per week. We use self-scheduling to offer you the flexibility to enhance your work/life balance. A formal job description follows: JOB CODE INFORMATION:
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
AIRWAY ESTABLISHING (INTERMEDIATE): - Demonstrates mastery of airway establishing in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering airway establishing services without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job. VENTILATOR MANAGEMENT (INTERMEDIATE): - Demonstrates mastery of ventilator management in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering ventilator management services without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job. ASSESSING, INTERVENING & STABILIZING PATIENTS (INTERMEDIATE): - Demonstrates mastery of assessing, intervening and stabilizing patients in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully assessing, intervening and stabilizing patients without requiring support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting the example, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job. CRITICAL THINKING - (INTERMEDIATE): - Clearly and quickly demonstrates the recognition of assumptions and concepts. Shows a solid empirical grounding and a sound reasoning leading to conclusions, implications and consequences. Able to accept and understand objections from alternative viewpoints. Responsive to variable subject matter, issues, and purposes. MEDICATION MANAGEMENT (INTERMEDIATE): - Demonstrates mastery of Medication Management in practical applications of a difficult nature. Conducted individual or group interventions to improve the ability of an individual to self administer medications as prescribed, offering improvement in insight, education regarding side effects, effects of medication and level of symptoms. Conducted systematic and regular assessment of actual or potential side effects experienced by a person as a result of prescribed medication. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully conducting Medication Management without requiring support and instruction from others. CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES: CORE CAPABILITIES: SUPPORTING COLLEAGUES (P2): DELIVERING EXCELLENT SERVICES (P2): ENSURING HIGH QUALITY (P2): MANAGING RESOURCES EFFECTIVELY (P2): FOSTERING INNOVATION (P2):
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