From hospital porter to paramedic in emergency responses
37 of the 74 essential skills of a paramedic in emergency responses are already essential for a hospital porter — about 50% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from hospital porter in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 37
- skills carry over
- 37
- would be new
- 50%
- of the target job covered
- 74
- essential skills of a paramedic in emergency responses
What a paramedic in emergency responses does
Paramedics in emergency responses provide emergency care to sick, injured, and vulnerable persons in emergency medical situations, before and during transport to a medical facility. They implement and oversee the transfer of the patient in connection with transport. They provide assistance in acute situations, implement life-saving emergency measures, and monitor the performance of the transportation process. As allowed by national law they may also provide oxygen, certain drugs, the puncture of peripheral veins and infusion of crystalloid solutions and perform endotracheal intubation if needed for the immediate prevention of threats for the life or health of an emergency patient.
What carries over
37 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adapt to emergency care environment
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- clinical science
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct physical examination in emergency
- deal with emergency care situations
- disorders of vital functions
- emergency cases
- employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- human anatomy
- immobilise patients for emergency intervention
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage major incidents
- monitor basic patients signs
- observe confidentiality
- operate an emergency communication system
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- position patients undergoing interventions
- principles of paramedic practice
- prioritise emergencies
- provide first aid
- respond to changing situations in health care
- select hazard control
- tolerate stress
- transfer patients
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- transportation methods
What would be new
37 skillsEssential for a paramedic in emergency responses and not for a hospital porter. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- administer medication in emergency
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply first response
- apply organisational techniques
- behavioural science
- brief hospital staff
- contribute to continuity of health care
- cope with blood
- defibrillation
- delegate emergency care
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- emergency medicine
- empathise with the healthcare user
- health care system
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- intravenous infusion
- intubation
- maintain order at scenes of accidents
- manage acute pain
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage patients with acute illnesses
- medical devices
- medical dispatch
- pathogenic microorganisms
- pharmacology
- physical science applied to paramedical practice
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- sanitary technology
- sociology applied to paramedical science
- stages of normal development
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- write reports on emergency cases
Other moves from hospital porter
2 roles- emergency ambulance driver15 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general care14 skills in common
← hospital porterparamedic in emergency responses →The other way round
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How far are you from being a paramedic in emergency responses?
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