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:
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Automobile
accidents
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Heart attacks
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Gunshot
woundings
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Unscheduled
childbirth
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Drownings
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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.
Choose the
right!!!
I wouldn’t
like to be an Emergency Medical Technician because it sounds boring. Also i don’t
like the medical field it is nasty you have to deal with blood, sick people,
etc….
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