Paramedic
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**Overview**

CHI St. Francis Health is a ministry serving the head of the Red River basin located in Breckenridge Minnesota founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls in 1899. St. Francis is an organization that provides a full continuum of health care services. We promote health healing and community through works of care and compassion. We are committed to a holistic healing ministry and a quality management philosophy using the St. Francis Core Values for its foundation. Our employees and medical staff take pride in providing innovative and high-quality service in a healing environment. St. Francis Health is a part of CommonSpirit Health a national health care ministry that shares the following mission vision and values. (

**Responsibilities**

+ The Paramedic provides professional and compassionate care to a variety of patients encountered in a multidisciplinary pre-hospital/hospital setting.

+ Patient population groups include children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics, occasionally dealing with multiple patients or population groups simultaneously.

+ The Paramedic performs and documents assessments and treatments; individualizes patient care and ensures that interventions are made appropriately and according to policy; identifies needs that may include supervising the transfer of patients to a different facility or level of care.

+ The Paramedic provides direct patient care; administers medications utilizing the five (5) Patient Rights; identifies significant changes or high risk situations; completes all documentation in a timely manner; demonstrates knowledge and use of equipment encountered in the ambulance department or in hospital; communicates patient status at transfer of care; adjusts own workload as needed; assess, identifies, and communicates staffing needs to Coordinator or adjusts staffing needs to current situation.

+ The Paramedic is responsible for the supervision, safety of EMTs, staff, and bystanders, and coordinates the patient care with ancillary departments involved in either direct or indirect patient care.

+ Treatment is accomplished through the guidelines established by the Standing Orders, Medical Director and ND State Guidelines.

**Qualifications**

High School Diploma or GED

Paramedic

Licensure required by the Department of Emergency Medical Services/ National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

**Pay Range**

$21.39 - $31.01 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.