paramedic in emergency responses
ISCO: 3258. Skills: 83. Essential: 74.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adapt to emergency care environment
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administer medication in emergency
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply first response
- apply organisational techniques
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- behavioural science
- brief hospital staff
- 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
- contribute to continuity of health care
- cope with blood
- deal with emergency care situations
- defibrillation
- delegate emergency care
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- disorders of vital functions
- emergency cases
- emergency medicine
- empathise with the healthcare user
- employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care system
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- immobilise patients for emergency intervention
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- intravenous infusion
- intubation
- listen actively
- maintain order at scenes of accidents
- manage acute pain
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage major incidents
- manage patients with acute illnesses
- medical devices
- medical dispatch
- monitor basic patients signs
- observe confidentiality
- operate an emergency communication system
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- pathogenic microorganisms
- pharmacology
- physical science applied to paramedical practice
- position patients undergoing interventions
- principles of paramedic practice
- prioritise emergencies
- promote inclusion
- provide first aid
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sanitary technology
- select hazard control
- sociology applied to paramedical science
- stages of normal development
- tolerate stress
- transfer patients
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- transportation methods
- 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
Supporting skills
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- decontaminate ambulance interior
- dietetics
- educate on the prevention of illness
- evaluation methodologies in paramedic practice
- manage trauma through surgical means
- train employees
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care