Emergency ambulance driver
Code 3258.1
Emergency ambulance drivers use emergency vehicles to respond to medical emergencies and support the work of paramedics, move patients safely, take note of changes in the patient's vital signs and report to the paramedics in charge, ensuring the medical equipment is well stored, transported and functional, under supervision and on order of a doctor of medicine.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Colaboración interprofesional en un entorno médico
- Comunicación efectiva de las decisiones a pacientes y familias
- Tipo de vehículo terrestre
- human anatomy
- emergency cases
- infection control
- medical dispatch
- special equipment in emergency
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- hygiene in a health care setting
- health care legislation
- pathogenic microorganisms
- resuscitation
Skills and competences
- Colaboración con proveedores de atención médica
- Considerar las preferencias y valores del paciente en la toma de decisiones
- assist ambulance paramedics
- position patients undergoing interventions
- communicate in healthcare
- drive ambulance under emergency conditions
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure ambulance roadworthiness
- clean vehicle interiors
- maintain emergency vehicle equipment
- listen actively
- write reports on emergency cases
- follow verbal instructions
- monitor patients during transfer to hospital
- work in multidisciplinary teams related to emergency care
- transfer patients
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- operate an emergency communication system
Transversal competences
- provide first aid
- first aid
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- tolerate stress
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences