Taking vital signs. Help with some medical procedures. Assist patients entering or leaving their beds. Assist patients walking. Make beds. Deliver messages. Monitoring patients and reporting changes. Collecting samples for testing. Provide patient hygiene. Feeding patients. Monitoring food and liquid input/output.

Determine the nature and extent of illness or injury and establish priority for required emergency care. Based on assessment findings, render emergency medical care to adult, infant and child, medical and trauma patients. Duties include but are not limited to, opening and maintaining an airway, ventilating patients, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including use of automated external defibrillators. Provide pre hospital emergency medical care of simple and multiple system trauma such as… Show more Determine the nature and extent of illness or injury and establish priority for required emergency care. Based on assessment findings, render emergency medical care to adult, infant and child, medical and trauma patients. Duties include but are not limited to, opening and maintaining an airway, ventilating patients, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including use of automated external defibrillators. Provide pre hospital emergency medical care of simple and multiple system trauma such as controlling hemorrhage, treatment of shock (hypo perfusion), bandaging wounds, and immobilization of painful, swollen, deformed extremities. Patient care includes: Assisting in childbirth, management of respiratory, cardiac, diabetic, allergic, behavioral, and environmental emergencies, and suspected poisonings. Search for medical identification emblem as a clue in providing emergency care. Additional care is provided based upon assessment of the patient and obtaining historical information. These interventions include assisting patients with prescribed medications, including sublingual nitroglycerin, epinephrine auto-injectors and hand-held aerosol inhalers. Show less