Paramedic Tullahoma

Overview

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) located in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through patient care, education, and research.

Organization: VTH Life Flight/Ground

Job Summary: Independently works off assessment skills to activate patient care protocols to deliver patient care within the Tennessee paramedic scope of practice within the defined Vanderbilt paramedic scope of practice. Responsible for triage care in the field as well as the Emergency Department. Responsible for effective communication to ensure safe and quality patient care in paramedic team, transport and handover.

Department Summary: Life Flight Ground EMS started with a single ambulance in 2011 and now includes a fleet of 21 Advanced Life Support (ALS) equipped ground ambulances operating from five locations in Middle Tennessee:
Nashville, Wilson County (Lebanon), Coffee County (Tullahoma), Montgomery County (Clarksville) and Bedford County (adjacent to Vanderbilt Bedford). These ambulances primarily support interfacility transfers and discharges from Vanderbilt-affiliated facilities, with the ability to support non-Vanderbilt facilities.

Shifts: Variable (12-hour shifts) to include some night, weekend and holidays. Shifts include: 7a-7p, 10a-10p, 7p-7a.

Sign-on Bonus: $10,000. Sign-on Bonus Requirements:
The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months. The bonus is available for full-time positions.

• Actively participates with other members of the healthcare team to provide direct patient care.
• Transports patients via various modes of transportation while providing quality ALS and Critical Care management to all ages.
• Responds to emergency requests within Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt-sponsored or other contracted events.
• Utilizes the problem solving model to independently resolve patient problems and follow through with HCT to implement solutions.
• Identifies patient and unit problems and finds solutions to resolve problems, following through to implement solutions.
• Effectively communicates patient handover to the health care team.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• Ventilator Management (Novice):
  Possesses fundamental proficiency to demonstrate ventilator management in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others.
• Critical Thinking (Novice):
  Demonstrates clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, and sound evidence in tasks and projects.
• Airway Establishing (Novice):
  Possesses fundamental proficiency to demonstrate airway establishing in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others. Has retained equivalent knowledge from past experience.
• Medication Management (Novice):
  Demonstrates fundamental proficiency; conducts comprehensive assessment of a person’s ability to comply with a prescribed medication regime and reviews current/past history including doses, side effects, interactions and outcomes; able to contact the patient’s primary care provider as needed.
• Assessing, Intervening & Stabilizing Patients (Novice):
  Demonstrates fundamental proficiency in assessing, intervening and stabilizing patients; generally works under the direction of others.

Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area includes credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings. These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence and our leadership in medical science and patient care.

Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

• Responsibilities: LIC-Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic - Licensure-Others; LIC-Tennessee Driver’s License - F Endorsement - Tennessee.
• Certifications: Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic;
  Licensure as applicable.
• Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience.
• Experience Level: 1 year.
• Education: High School Diploma or GED (Required).

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.