Employment with MetroCare
Environment - What is MetroCare Like?
MetroCare provides treatment and transport for ill and injured patients. MetroCare provides this service on a non-emergency and emergency bases. Employees are expected to remain current on their education, certifications and be up to date with the current standards in the ever changing EMS environment.
MetroCare employees must be willing to accept and expect to be subjected to the following environment:
Navigate to Scenes
Use map reading skills to navigate your partner to the scene of a patient. Must be able to drive an ambulance in non-emergency and emergency modes safely while negotiating potentially hazardous road, traffic and weather conditions.
Patient Care
Ambulance crews will make contact with patients and provide treatment on scene if necessary. Medics will be prepared to encounter patients in dangerous presentations that may include entrapments in vehicles, confined spaces and unstable areas.
Patients may present with serious signs and symptoms that may include chest pain, difficulty breathing, seizures, or cardiac arrest and medics must be able to to accurately triage, manage, and transport patients accordingly. Medics must be able to perform under stress in many diverse situations that may include distraught people, dangerous scenes, and must be able to withstand the sight of injured / ill patients.
Documentation
Employees must furnish proper documentation on every patient they encounter. These documents serve as the legal record that the patient was managed under the MetroCare employee's care. Patient reports must be accurate and complete. Patient care reports shall be completed by the end of the medic's shift.