Emergency Medical Technician

Emergency Medical  Technician

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs ,usually designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatments at the scenes of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful. Emergency medical technicians often respond to :

·        Automobile accidents

·        Heart attacks

·        Gunshots wounding

·        Unscheduled childbirth

·        Drowning

·        Other serious medical emergencies

Average Salary:$25,000-$37,500

Educational Requirements:

Students must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED certificate may be substituted) in order to become an emergency medical technicians. Drivers education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may be required before enrolling in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technicians training includes about 100-120 hours spent  in the classroom and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification tests and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degree in their field.

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 I would like this job because it look interesing and i always when i hear an abulance horn or sound i always want to know what happened and all that stuff