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Paramedics

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This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

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Administer basic or advanced emergency medical care and assess injuries and illnesses. May administer medication intravenously, use equipment such as EKGs, or administer advanced life support to sick or injured individuals.

Related: Acute Care Nurses Critical Care Nurses Emergency Medical Technicians Licensed Practical & Licensed Vocational Nurses Registered Nurses

Industries: Health & Counseling Government

Summary
Details

Education

Postsecondary certificate

Work Experience

Less than 5 years work experience

Training

No on-the-job training

Education and Training Opportunities

Washington Annual Salary

100780/yr

Washington Hourly Wage

48.45/hr

Currently Employed

106,500

Yearly Projected Openings

5300

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking. They do well at jobs that need:

Ambulances
Analgesic infusion sets or kits
Artificial airway holders
Blood collection needles
Blood pressure recording units
Bullet proof vests
Cardiac output CO monitoring units
Cardiac pacemaker generators or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers CRT-P
Chest tube kits
Desktop computers
Electrocardiography EKG transmitters or telemetry devices
Electrocardiography EKG units
Endotracheal tubes
Esophageal tubes
Extremity restraints
Finger ring removers or cutters
Flow sensors or regulators or components
Glass cutters
Glucose monitors or meters
Hacksaw
Hypodermic injection apparatus
Hypodermic needle
Intravenous catheters
Intravenous infusion pumps for general use
Intravenous or arterial arm boards
Intravenous or arterial tubing adapter or connector
Intubation forceps
Intubation gauges or guides
Intubation laryngoscopes
Intubation stylets
Irrigation or suction handpieces or cannulas or tips or catheters
Medical acoustic stethoscopes
Medical aspiration or irrigation syringes
Medical gas cylinders or related devices
Medical nasal cannulas
Medical or surgical suction tubings
Medical oxygen masks or parts
Medical syringes without needle
Mobile medical service anti shock garments
Mobile medical service intravenous IV kits
Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
Mobile medical services cervical or extrication collars
Mobile medical services head immobilizers
Mobile medical services litter
Mobile medical services non-suction antichoke devices
Mobile medical services obstetrics kits
Mobile medical services spine boards
Mobile medical services suction antichoke devices
Mobile medical services tourniquet or clamp
Mobile medical services triage tags
Mobile resuscitator or aspirator kits
Multiparameter vital sign units
Nasopharyngeal tubes or airways
Nebulizers
Needleless intravenous injection syringe sets or injection cannulas
Needleless vial or bag withdrawal cannulas or adapters or decanters
Non vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
Notebook computers
Orthopedic splint systems
Oxygen insufflators
Patient carbon dioxide detectors
Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices
Peripherally inserted central catheters PICC
Pharyngeal airways or airways kits
Pry bars
Pulse oximeter units
Respiratory aspirator products
Restraint vests and jackets
Resuscitation masks
Sledge hammer
Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines
Torso and belt restraints
Traction splint sets
Two way radios
Wheel chocks
Winged infusion needle set