Paramedic
Catholic Health Initiatives
**Overview**
CHI St. Francis Health is a ministry serving the head of the Red River basin located in Breckenridge Minnesota founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls in 1899. St. Francis is an organization that provides a full continuum of health care services. We promote health healing and community through works of care and compassion. We are committed to a holistic healing ministry and a quality management philosophy using the St. Francis Core Values for its foundation. Our employees and medical staff take pride in providing innovative and high-quality service in a healing environment. St. Francis Health is a part of CommonSpirit Health a national health care ministry that shares the following mission vision and values. (https://commonspirit.org/?adobe\_mc=MCMID=26748859925917887380993264206370316640)
**Responsibilities**
+ The Paramedic provides professional and compassionate care to a variety of patients encountered in a multidisciplinary pre-hospital/hospital setting.
+ Patient population groups include children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics, occasionally dealing with multiple patients or population groups simultaneously.
+ The Paramedic performs and documents assessments and treatments; individualizes patient care and ensures that interventions are made appropriately and according to policy; identifies needs that may include supervising the transfer of patients to a different facility or level of care.
+ The Paramedic provides direct patient care; administers medications utilizing the five (5) Patient Rights; identifies significant changes or high risk situations; completes all documentation in a timely manner; demonstrates knowledge and use of equipment encountered in the ambulance department or in hospital; communicates patient status at transfer of care; adjusts own workload as needed; assess, identifies, and communicates staffing needs to Coordinator or adjusts staffing needs to current situation.
+ The Paramedic is responsible for the supervision, safety of EMT’s, staff, and bystanders, and coordinates the patient care with ancillary departments involved in either direct or indirect patient care.
+ Treatment is accomplished through the guidelines established by the Standing Orders, Medical Director and ND State Guidelines.
**Qualifications**
High School Diploma or GED
Paramedic
Licensure required by the Department of Emergency Medical Services/ National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
**Pay Range**
$21.39 - $31.01 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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