Become a Paramedic with Ambulance

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Become a Paramedicwith Ambulance
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What is a Paramedic?

• A health care professional with
• specialised training to respond to
• medical emergencies and provide
• patient care.

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What does a Paramedic do?

• Responding to triple zero calls and providing
  emergency medical assistance is a paramedics
  primary responsibility
• Paramedics are trained to be first responders
• Assess the scene for safety issues
• Determine how to treat or stabilise the patients
  condition until they can get to a hospital
• When they arrive at the emergency room at a
  hospital, they conduct a handover to ER nurses
  and doctors
• What types of injuries do they treat?

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What can the Paramedic do?

• When the paramedic has worked out what is wrong
  with the patient, they use their skills to help
  stabilise the situation
• Air way management
• Ventilation of patients
• Basic life support eg CPR
• Managing blood loss
• Pain management
• Drug therapy
• Spinal injury management
• Fracture management
• Assisting with childbirth, obstetric emergencies
• Management of burns

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Day in the Life

• Shift work (day shifts and night shifts)
• Work with another paramedic (take turns in
  treating patients and in driving)
• Work with a range of people during the day
  (control centre operators, patient transport,
  nurses, doctors, police and other emergency
  services)

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Interesting Places Paramedics work

• On the road side
• In the city
• Out and about
• Major events
• Construction sites
• At the airport
• NSW has different areas the beaches, regional
  cities, rural towns, snow and alpine areas.

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Our services to the people of NSW?

• Aero-medical Retrieval - Fixed Wing and
  Helicopter
• Patient Transport
• Motorcycle (Paramedic Specialists)
• Special Casualty Access Teams
• Snow Operations
• Paramedic Specialists
• Emergency Transport
• Triple 0 Operations co-ordinating responses
• Special Operations and Counter Disaster.

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Career Pathways

• Clinical Paramedics, Paramedic Specialists
  Intensive Care or Extended Care, SCAT Special
  Operations, Education, Ambulance Research
  Institute, Patient Safety and Clinical Quality
• Non-Clinical Control Centres (call takers)
• Management Team Leader, Station Manager,
  District Manager, Divisional Management team
• Corporate Health Management, Workforce, Public
  Affairs.

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Training to become a Paramedic

• Enrol at university for either the 2 year or 3
  year degree (one course is an accelerated
  program)
• 5 weeks at Ambulance Education Centre (Rozelle,
  Sydney)
• 30 weeks on road experience / with clinical
  mentor
• In-service 2 - final 3 weeks at Ambulance
  Education Centre become a qualified Paramedic

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Recruitment Stages

• Application with good Driving Record
• Testing for occupational suitability
• Interview
• Health Assessments
• Vaccinations
• Working With Children Check
• Referee and Conduct Service Check

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Conditions of Employment

• Base starting salary 903 per week
• Plus shift penalties (Trainees can earn 60K)
• Shift work based on 38 hours per week
• Roster cycle of rotated shifts over weekdays,
  weekends and public holidays
• Maximum shift length 12 hours
• Uniforms provided
• Six weeks annual leave after 12 months employment
  

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University Entry

• A degree in Paramedic practice
• Charles Sturt University Bathurst
• University of Tasmania - Sydney

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How to Enrol to Study a Paramedic Degree

• Visit the University Admissions Centre website
  and apply on-line at
• www.uac.edu.au

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Further Information

• If you would like to know more about being a
  Paramedic more information is available at
• www.csu.edu.au/study/science-courses/paramedic/
• www.utas.edu.au
• www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au