Job Description
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Pros
1) Training - Formal training is required to become an EMT. Coursework typically emphasizes emergency skills, such as managing respiratory, trauma, and cardiac emergencies, and patient assessment
2) Job Function - Provide critical care and transport for sick or injured to medical facilities. An EMT is able to assess the patient, take vital signs, provide the appropriate interventions, and transport the patient.
3) Variety - Work with all kinds of people, every call you go on is going to be different. You never know what to expect (car accidents, gun shot wounds, heart attacks). Your training will allow you to think and react efficiently in all situations.
4) Varying Schedule – An EMT can work full-time and part-time. Shifts can vary from 4 to 24 hour shifts. Many people work part time as an EMT, and hold other jobs or go to school at the same time.
5) Starting Point - Learn valuable skills that can lead to careers as a Firefighter, Paramedic, Physician's Assistant, Nurse, etc…
Cons
1) Demands - Physically strenuous, mentally challenging, and sometimes put in a life-or-death situation. This is what makes the job exciting!
2) Schedule – Depending on where you work, hours can be long. Sometimes you will be scheduled to work on holidays and birthdays. This however can be made up with the off days that you have that you normally wouldn't have in a typical 9-5 job.
3) Patient Conditions – Sometimes a patient will be in such a compromised condition that they no intervention you provide will help, the best thing you can do is do all that you can do and get them to the hospital or proper care facility ASAP.
Company Size
250-500 employees
Pay Range
$50,001-$60,000
Years in Job
2
Education
B.A.
City
San Francisco
State
CA
