Paramedic, also known as Emergency Medical Technician, is the title given to the professional group that cares for the sick or injured in emergency medical situations. The paramedic is responsible for answering emergency calls, performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities.
What Does a Paramedic Do, What Are Their Duties?
The paramedic profession, which aims to save lives with timely intervention, is among the stressful work groups. The responsibilities of paramedics can be grouped under the following headings:
- Providing emergency treatment in cases of accident, injury, life-threatening illness,
- To use the correct patient transport techniques and to provide stabilization in cases such as fractures,
- Transferring patients to a health institution and maintaining treatment during transport,
- Transferring patient status and treatment information to hospital staff,
- Assisting in the provision of patient care in hospitals and other healthcare facilities,
- Being able to read EKG,
- stop bleeding,
- To prepare the patient for transplantation by stabilizing the trauma cases,
- To support birth in case of emergency.
How to Become a Paramedic
- Not be an obstacle to obtaining a driver's license,
- Having received a certificate of mental health,
- To have completed the age of 17 on the date of registration, and not less than 23 years of age,
- Not shorter than 1.60 cm for women and 1.65 cm for men,
- To have the physical ability to carry the stretcher with a colleague.
The qualifications sought in paramedics who can work in the ambulance services of Private and Public Hospitals are as follows;
- Ability to make quick decisions and remain calm
- To communicate effectively with patients and their relatives,
- Compliance with physical strength level,
- To have driving proficiency.
Paramedic Salaries 2022
The lowest Paramedic salary received in 2022 was determined as 5.200 TL, the average Paramedic salary was 6.300 TL, and the highest Paramedic salary was 10.800 TL.
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