Emergency Medical Technician - Advanced

Role Overview

Emergency Medical Technician - Advanced with NMC Healthcare, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The role is responsible for providing immediate pre-hospital emergency medical care to patients in accordance with Department of Health regulations, approved clinical protocols, and scope of practice.

Role Purpose

Ensure personnel and vehicle readiness and availability to respond to accidents, sudden illness, and emergencies. Deliver basic and advanced life support care, patient assessment, stabilization, and safe transportation to appropriate healthcare facilities while maintaining equipment, infection control standards, and accurate documentation.

Key Responsibilities

Emergency Response & Patient Care

• Respond to medical emergency calls dispatched by communications officers and drive to scene expeditiously.
• Conduct scene size-up and determine vehicle mechanical condition prior to dispatch.
• Perform direct illness and injury assessment to determine nature and extent of condition and appropriate course of action.
• Conduct primary and secondary patient examinations.
• Take and record vital signs.
• Utilize non-invasive diagnostic devices.
• Provide basic life support to victims before hospital transport.
• Reassure patients and bystanders throughout treatment and transport, avoiding mishandling and undue haste.
• Assist in lifting, carrying, and transporting patients to ambulance and medical facility.

Airway Management & Respiratory Care

• Open and maintain airway by positioning patient's head.
• Properly use oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airway devices.
• Provide CPR and rescue breathing for infants, children, and adults.
• Perform upper airway suctioning.
• Ventilate with non-invasive positive pressure delivery device.
• Operate bag valve mask device with reservoir.
• Administer oxygen.

Trauma & Wound Care

• Provide medical aid including AED, CPR, spinal motion restriction, ventilation, and control of severe bleeding.
• Provide care for soft tissue injuries and control bleeding through direct pressure.
• Provide care for suspected fractures.
• Immobilize using spinal board, cervical collar, and splints.
• Bandage wounds and prevent shock.

Medication Administration

• Administer activated charcoal, oral glucose, and oxygen.
• Administer Epinephrine Auto Injector only for anaphylaxis or automatic injection device for anaphylaxis.
• Administer aspirin for suspected myocardial infarction.
• Administer medication via intramuscular, intranasal, intravenous, and nebulizer routes.
• Insert intravenous cannula and administer crystalloids.
• Perform blood glucose monitoring.

Cardiac Monitoring & Defibrillation

• Perform 3 Lead ECG assessment and cardiac monitoring.
• Perform cardiac defibrillation with automatic external defibrillator.

Patient Monitoring & Transport

• Constantly assess patient enroute to emergency facility.
• Administer additional care as indicated or directed by medical control.
• Continuously reassure patient enroute to emergency facility.
• Complete clear and accurate pre-hospital emergency care reports from all patient contacts.
• Provide copy of reports to senior EMT.
• Perform direct pre-hospital patient care to ill and injured during ambulance transfer and transfer of information to receiving facility.

Equipment & Vehicle Maintenance

• Maintain operational and functional readiness of ambulance unit, medical equipment, and other equipment to ensure continuum of emergency services.
• Maintain vehicles and medical and communication equipment.
• Inspect and clean ambulance and equipment.
• Review and restock all medical equipment to ensure completeness and operational readiness at all times.
• Replenish first-aid equipment and supplies.
• Restock all supplies in ambulance and replace used blankets, linens, and other supplies.
• Clean all equipment following appropriate disinfecting protocols.
• Maintain familiarity with specialized equipment used by service.

Compliance & Professional Development

• Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
• Comply with continuous quality improvement objectives.
• Comply with safety, environmental, and infection control standards in performance of duties.
• Understand use of body substance isolation.
• Understand basic medical-legal principles.
• Function within scope of care as defined by state, region, and local regulatory agencies.
• Comply with regulations on handling of deceased, notify authorities, and arrange protection of property and evidence at scene.
• Attend continuing education and refresher training programs.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with communications officers, field supervisors, emergency department and hospital personnel, police department, fire department, and other individuals to deliver basic emergency and non-emergency medical services to general public.
• Respond to calls from communications dispatcher using appropriate radio communication skills.
• Use most expeditious route to locate patient needing emergency services in shortest response time possible.
• Communicate effectively with emergency response teams and healthcare professionals.
• Assist all EMT paramedics in efficient advance life support care system.
• Calm down victim's family members.

Qualifications & Experience

• Valid Department of Health (DOH) License or passed EMT exam in Abu Dhabi.
• Graduate of internationally recognized EMT-Basic course or equivalent with minimum four weeks (six weeks) duration.
• Valid BLS Certification and PHTLS.
• At least two years of experience as Emergency Medical Technician.
• Currently licensed in country of origin and with DOH license to practice in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Skills & Competencies

• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Arabic language desirable but not essential.
• 3 Lead ECG assessment and interpretation.
• Cardiac monitoring and defibrillation.
• Intravenous cannulation and administration.
• Medication administration via multiple routes.
• Blood glucose monitoring and non-invasive diagnostic device operation.
• Airway management and respiratory support techniques.
• Trauma assessment and care.
• Patient assessment and vital signs monitoring.
• Radio communication and dispatcher coordination.
• Medical documentation and reporting.
• Body substance isolation and infection control.
• Understanding of medical-legal principles.

Additional Information

• Driving license preferable but not mandatory.
• Must maintain continuing education and refresher training.