Emergency Medical Tech (EMT) - Duke Life Flight
Company: Duke Careers
Location: Durham
Posted on: August 8, 2022
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Job Description:
Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the
best in the United States and is known around the world for its
outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University
Hospital has 957 inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic
and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma
center; a major surgery suite containing 51 operating rooms; an
endo-surgery center; an Ambulatory Surgery Center with nine
operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional
radiology area. In fiscal year 2018, Duke University Hospital
admitted 42,916 patients and had 1,085,740 outpatient visits in
fiscal year 2017.
U.S News & World Report named Duke University Hospital #1 in North
Carolina and #1 in the Raleigh-Durham area in 2018-19.
Duke University Hospital is ranked in the top 20 nationally for
seven adult specialties, including cardiology and heart surgery,
nephrology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology,
and urology.
In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive,
geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that
include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty
clinics and outpatient surgery centers.
Duke Nursing Highlights:
EMT - Duke University Health System - Duke Life Flight
Duke University Health System seeks to hire a EMT who will embrace
our mission of Transforming Lives Transforming Care.
Duke University Health System's Life Flight team supports over 20
critical care procedures independently. The patient population is
22-23 week gestation neonates to geriatric (all ages). In this
department you work with interdisciplinary teams including, Basic
Life Support EMT's, single provider ALS Paramedic, Clinical Nurses,
Respiratory Therapist (Neo/Peds team) and Critical Care
Paramedics.
Job Summary:
As a EMT with Duke University Health System, you will make
providing service your priority while caring for the whole person
in a patient-centered atmosphere. The EMT Driver will perform a
variety of activities associated with the Life Flight/ Life Care
Critical Care Transport service to include operation of the Life
Care Critical Care Transport ambulance and medical support systems,
and assist with operations of associated satellite base and ongoing
continuing education outreach program.
Work Hours & Shifts:
Full Time: 12 hour shifts - Day/Night Rotating
Location: Durham Base
Knowledge, Skills, Education, and Experience
Required/Preferred:
Licensure, Certification or Registration Required/Preferred:
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed
to providing employment opportunity without regard to an
individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression,
gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration,
innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success
depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best
when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and
experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential
that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the
contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices
are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to
uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University
and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob
functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities.
Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable
accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Keywords: Duke Careers, Durham , Emergency Medical Tech (EMT) - Duke Life Flight, Other , Durham, North Carolina
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