Each year thousands of people are injured or killed in accidents in the community on the job, and in the home. Knowledge and skills prepare you for emergencies, giving you the confidence to deal with traumatic situations and greatly reduce the risk of becoming injured.

Experience and statistics show that safety training, saves lives, promotes safe environments, and reduces accidents. Even minor injuries are potentially serious, everyone needs to know the proper steps to prevent complications Trained individuals have the ability to recognize unsafe situations and correct them, take charge of an emergency, keep calm under pressure, and organize others to do likewise. Often, a person who is nearby and is trained can prevent a fatality.

A trained individual becomes someone special, to strangers on the highway involved in an accident, to fellow workers injured on the job, to children playing on your street.

Employment projections indicate that the Ambulance Attendants and other Paramedical Occupations is expected to have an above average growth rate per year over the next few years.

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PARAMEDICINE IN CANADA

A paramedic in Canada is a highly educated medical professional that brings emergency medicine to the patient in their home, worksites, community, and on the streets..

In Canada the scope of practice for Paramedics is described by the National Occupation Competency Profile (NOCP) for Paramedics document developed by the Paramedic Association of Canada. Under the new NOCP, most providers that work on ambulances will be identified as 'Paramedics'. A Primary Care Paramedic is an entry-level paramedic with approximately one year of training. An Advanced Care Paramedic is a higher level of practitioner. Currently, the province of Alberta still uses the title 'EMT' Emergency Medical Technician for the Primary Care Paramedic and 'Paramedic' only for those qualified as Advanced Care Paramedics (ALS) provider - but almost all provinces are moving to the new titles.

Emergency Medical Technician – (Primary Care Paramedics)

Primary Care Paramedics (PCP) are the fundamental level of paramedic. They perform AED, , interpret 3-lead ECG's and administer Symptom Relief Medications for a variety of emergency medical conditions and perform spinal immobilization and other fundamental medical care. Primary Care Paramedics may also receive additional training in order to perform skills that are normally in the scope of practice of Advanced Care Paramedics. This is both provincially (by statute) and locally (by the medical director) regulated by a paramedic service's base hospital physician, who certifies the paramedics under his license to perform controlled medical acts. For example, many paramedic services allow Primary Care Paramedics to perform, 12-lead ECG interpretation, or initiate intravenous therapy to deliver additional medications. In an Advanced Life Support (ALS) service the PCP performs a role analogous to that of the nurse in the ER in assisting the paramedic by performing the above skills and freeing the paramedic to manage more complex critical interventions.   The EMT in Alberta must be registered with the Alberta College of Paramedics in order to work at this level.

Paramedic training in Canada is intense, as paramedics are seen as health professionals.. Paramedic training at all levels involves supervised, intensive classroom, lab, clinical and field experience.. The "National Occupational Competency Profile" or skill set and didactic competencies required to graduate from the various levels of Paramedic training can be found on the Paramedic Association of Canada website.

Community

The EMT responds to many calls and incidents in all environments. There’s constant interaction with the public, fire, police, hospital personnel and many other Healthcare professionals in your communities

The remuneration for the EMT it is dependent upon the environment in which you are working.  From urban to rural ambulance services and industrial settings the average wage will range from $20.00 to $30.00 per hour.  Registered EMTs will work for private and public ambulance services, industrial medical services, industrial worksites and may also volunteer their time in many communities.

Emergency Medical Responder

The Emergency Medical Responder program is designed as the entry-level program for the Ambulance Profession.  In Alberta the EMR is must be registered with the Alberta College of Paramedics and is trained to the Alberta Occupational Competency Level

Roll of the EMR