They also don’t just wear uniforms and work with firefighters. There is more to a paramedic than that. Paramedics are the most highly trained people. Paramedics main job is to save lives and respond to 911 calls for emergencies. There are many reasons why paramedics…
Introduction to Emergency Services Personal Traits Essay From the classroom activities describing traits and characteristics that an EMT and/or Firefighter must possess, choose Two characteristics that you feel you possess and why Two characteristics you need to work on, why and how you can improve Every great team you are involved in or are apart of thrives and achieves off of a lot of attributes of someone and what they possess as a person. You will get nowhere as a group if no one sticks or doesn’t follow a task in hand provided by a leader. There are no skills stronger than others as a whole because where there might be a weak force in a group, there will be a shoulder to lean on and help out as a whole.…
1. A description of the profession A CRNA cares for a patient before, during, and after a medical procedure or surgery. A CRNA is responsible for getting the patient ready for anesthesia, implementing patient assessment, issue and preserve proper sedation and pain management, supervise patient recovery from anesthesia, along with making sure the patients’ post-operative needs are met. 2.…
My goal for the future is to go to Owen’s Community College for a couple of years, then graduate college at Bowling Green State University and studying to becoming an Athletic Trainer, or Sports Management. I have always wanted to be one because I’ve always wanted to become one of the two. It has been one of my goal when I was in the sixth grade. Also, I am addicted to sports,so I like to stay in the sports business of the working environment. If I do become an Athletic Trainer, I would like to be one in football and basketball because I like to watch those sports a lot more than the other sports.…
Reference Taken From: (1) http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Physical_Therapist_Assistant/Hourly_Rate (2) http://www.apta.org/PTACareers/RoleofaPTA/ Physical Therapist Assistant A physical therapist assistant is primarily responsible for executing tasks related to physical therapy on behalf of their organization. They are responsible for interacting with patients, perusing through their medical histories, and offering the best possible services.…
If you are looking for a career that you can enter quickly and that will provide you with a challenging work environment and a nice salary, you may want to consider becoming an administrative medical assistant. Administrative medical assistants are trained professionals working in a role that requires them to provide customer service when working with patients, as well as administrative support for medical facility staff. Administrative medical assistants are responsible for managing the front desk operations of a hospital, physician’s office, or other medical facility so that doctors and other medical staff are free to provide the highest level of care to patients. In large facilities, administrative medical assistants work as part of a team, and are often responsible for managing multiple tasks in a high-pace work environment. Administrative medical assistants are responsible for managing the front desk operations of a hospital,…
Why I want to be a Physical Therapist Assistant. I have thought about this question multiple times for why I chose Physical Therapist Assistant as my major. Many reasons come to mind such as, when I did my observing hours, I noticed the Physical Therapist Assistant were communicating very well with their patients, I also think of the time when my grandmother had a total hip replacement and I would tag along to her physical therapy sessions. When I did my observing hours at F&S Physical Therapy in Alma, AR. Mrs. Julie the lady I observed gave me a few pointers to help me with becoming a Physical Therapist Assistant.…
This paper is all about physician assistants and what they do for the medical field. Starting with who physician assistants are and what they do. Then this paper discusses what kinds of writing is involved with physician assistants. Patient notes, drug orders, and journals are just a few writings physician assistants must do. The writings must be written in a certain way in order to have a consistency in the medical field.…
As a medical assistant, we will have to talk about certain topics that may make a patient feel uncomfortable. For example, when talking to a patient about their reproductive health history. It is our job to obtain pertinent information about our patients for the physician. When talking to our patients, we need to be kind and professional. It is important that we also inform our patients that we need them to speak truthfully and that anything they say will remain confidential due to HIPAA.…
Physical Therapist Assistants Physical therapist assistants (PTAs) are health care providers who work as part of a team to provide physical therapy services under the supervision of licensed therapists. They assist individuals of all ages from young to old who have medical problems that deter them from performing their daily chores. They also teach patients how to exercise in order to enhance their strength and coordination. By use of treatment techniques, they examine individuals to relieve pain, enhance mobility and to restore function of the body. In addition, they develop fitness and wellness- oriented programs for healthier living (American Physical Therapy Assocation, 2015).…
Haebler, and Montera, (2016), describe one of the key roles of the Community Paramedic (CP) as gap filling. This description is an apt identifier for how the role of the CP makes a positive impact in their community. A CP is a local Emergency Medical Services Provider (EMS) who has refocused their mission from providing emergent care to instead focusing on needs in the community that used to be addressed by services such as public health, or home health. Often, the CP fills in where these services have either left off due to budget cuts, patient inability to qualify for services secondary to failure to access primary care, or patient has not even been identified as a candidate for services. The CP plays a role in helping to connect these…
Community paramedicine is a new and upcoming alternative to the healthcare field with a vast amount of availability for the paramedic or ems provider to branch out into a more controlled option of care. However, I do not think this is a place for all providers or all ambulance companies to venture into. The paramedics of today are not of the same caliper than when I first started my ems career in the late 70s and early 80’s. The education and skills that are now required makes the current paramedics well versed in emergency care, but lacks in the knowledge of psychological care.…
The perfect summer job for me would probably beworking with my uncle as a life guard. It would be a goodfit for me because I like to help people and I love beingoutside by water. The job would be at burgers lake, and you have to be14 years old or older, you have to be able to swim reallywell in deep and shallow waters, you have to be able topay attention for long periods of time and you have to beable to tolerate any kind of behavior or you will not beworking for very long. Some responsibilities for becoming a life guard are,being mature and not acting like a child when you’reworking, you have to be able to keep up with your workequipment and not lose it because you obviously need it. Also you need to be able to actually keep the job, youcan’t…
"Professional PT programs are typically 3 years. Most programs require a bachelor's degree while other programs offer a 3+3 curriculum" (American Physical Therapy Association). According to Study.com "Before one is allowed to practice, physical therapist must have earned graduate degrees from accredited academic programs in physical therapy. These programs typically culminate in a doctoral degree"(American Physical Therapy Association). Those seeking a degree in PT often study heavily in science courses such as: anatomy, physiology, biology, chemistry, and physics, the course students usually dislike.…
Introduction With all the changes that have been recently made in healthcare, including how it is delivered to the general public, organizations and businesses are searching for better, more effective means of healthcare delivery. Challenges such as preventative care, healthcare accessibility, healthcare system abuse, and the need to reduce hospital readmissions are being examined for possible solutions. One of the solutions they discovered is the use of Community Paramedicine and Community Paramedics. Community Paramedicine is defined as, “An organized system of services, based on local need, which are provided by EMTs and Paramedics integrated into the local or regional health care system and overseen by emergency and primary care physicians.…