Emergency Medical Technician
Duties and Responsibilities:
Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, usually work in
teams of two in specially designed ambulances.
They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the
scenes of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital
emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and
stressful. Emergency medical technicians
often respond to:
·
Automobile accidents
·
Heart attacks
·
Gunshot wounding
·
Unscheduled childbirth
·
Drowning
·
Other serious medical
emergencies
Average Salary: $25,000
- $37,500
Educational Requirements:
Students must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED
certificates may be substituted) in order to become an emergency medical
technician. Driver's education, health,
and science courses are strongly recommended and may be required before
enrolling in some training programs.
Basic emergency medical technician training includes
about 100-120 hours spent in the
classroom and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to
pass state licensing or certification tests and participate in continuing
education programs. Many emergency
medical technicians earn associate degrees in their field.
I think id like to be a Emergency Medical Technician because
it seems real nice to drive around helping people when they need help and ever
since I was small id always wanted to be that.
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