emergency ambulance driver
ISCO: 3258. Skills: 47. Essential: 33.
Essential skills
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- assist ambulance paramedics
- clean vehicle interiors
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- drive ambulance under emergency conditions
- emergency cases
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure ambulance roadworthiness
- first aid
- follow verbal instructions
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- infection control
- listen actively
- maintain emergency vehicle equipment
- medical dispatch
- monitor patients during transfer to hospital
- operate an emergency communication system
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- pathogenic microorganisms
- position patients undergoing interventions
- provide first aid
- resuscitation
- special equipment in emergency
- tolerate stress
- transfer patients
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- work in multidisciplinary teams related to emergency care
- write reports on emergency cases
Supporting skills
- apply organisational techniques
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- childbirth
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- decontaminate ambulance interior
- disability care
- drive helicopter under emergency conditions
- handle patient trauma
- maintain order at scenes of accidents
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- perform multiple tasks at the same time
- pharmacology
- pilot boat for medical emergency services
- sanitary technology