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Ambulance Paramedic *

Last modified: November 07, 2011, 01:26 PM
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This is an ideal career for intuitive thinkers. Ambulance Paramedics provide pre-hospital emergency care and treatment of patients. You use medical knowledge and skills to treat injured and ill patients in the pre-hospital environment. You work in teams, in shifts and closely with members of other professions and emergency services such as fire fighters, police and SES.

Environment and Culture of the workplace

Employment opportunities are available in many and varied locations to suit individual lifestyles, from a major world city to the smallest rural and coastal communities.

You work to variety of rosters that rotate across 7 days per week, 24 hours per day. Rosters are provided 5 weeks in advance to ensure adequate planning time.

In Australia there is a drive to be the best in the world with many opportunities to undertake training to further develop skills and knowledge. The challenge of dealing with the physical and emotional situation that ranges from a casual ride to hospital for the elderly to the emergency procedure that saves lives means no two days are ever the same.

Dealing day to day with people who are as committed and focused as you are makes your day.

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