Staff role
Ambulance Driver / Attendant (except Emergency Medical Technicians)
Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.
O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Ambulance Driver; Chair Car Driver; CPR Ambulance Driver (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Ambulance Driver); Driver; Driver Medic; ECA (Emergency Care Attendant); Emergency Vehicle Operator; EMS Driver (Emergency Medical Services Driver); First Responder; Medical Van Driver (Medi-Van Driver)
Tasks
- Place patients on stretchers, and load stretchers into ambulances, usually with assistance from other attendants.
- Replace supplies and disposable items on ambulances.
- Accompany and assist emergency medical technicians on calls.
- Earn and maintain appropriate certifications.
- Drive ambulances or assist ambulance drivers in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons.
- Administer first aid, such as bandaging, splinting, or administering oxygen.
- Remove and replace soiled linens or equipment to maintain sanitary conditions.
- Report facts concerning accidents or emergencies to hospital personnel or law enforcement officials.
- Clean and wash rigs, ambulances, or equipment.
- Perform minor maintenance on emergency medical services vehicles, such as ambulances.
- Restrain or shackle violent patients.
Knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Transportation
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Public Safety and Security
- Education and Training
- Psychology
- Telecommunications
- Administration and Management
- Computers and Electronics
Skills
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Learning
- Monitoring
Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Problem Sensitivity
- Oral Expression
- Near Vision
- Deductive Reasoning
- Multilimb Coordination
- Reaction Time
- Static Strength
- Speech Clarity
- Perceptual Speed
- Spatial Orientation
- Selective Attention
- Time Sharing
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Manual Dexterity
- Finger Dexterity
- Response Orientation
- Rate Control
- Trunk Strength
- Far Vision
- Speech Recognition
- Written Comprehension
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
- Category Flexibility
- Speed of Closure
- Flexibility of Closure
- Control Precision
- Depth Perception
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