Flight Paramedic - Vanderbilt LifeFlight, Night - Sign On Bonus

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Lifeflight 90

Job Summary:

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Our flight medicine personnel normally work one 24-hour shift and one 12-hour shift per week. We use self-scheduling to offer you the flexibility to enhance your work/life balance.

Provides advanced pre-hospital and inter-facility patient care from initial contact until care is relinquished to the accepting medical facility. Maintains thorough patient care documentation of assessment and intervention throughout the entire transport and will practice within the scope of practice as defined by the state of Tennessee and programs protocols. Demonstrates proficient clinical knowledge and competency of psychomotor skills during transport and will maintain through actively participating in ongoing advanced skills laboratories and hand-on clinical exercises. Acts as a clinical role model and resource to resolve complex situations and patient care issues. Participates in improvement activities and problem solving projects as assigned by the leadership team. Communicates safety concerns to leadership team, educational needs of customers and service area and deliver stellar customer service to both internal and external customers.

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Qualification:Flight Paramedic: 

• Minimum of 3 years of recent experience as a paramedic

• Current Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) 

• Ability to obtain a paramedic license with Critical Care Endorsement valid in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama (Paramedics with previous critical care transport experience may obtain the Tennessee Critical Care endorsement within 12 months of hire)

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)

• Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) with an advanced skills lab and advanced lecture components

• Current United States Passport

Vanderbilt LifeFlight is nationally-recognized for our advanced set of protocols and our flight medicine practitioners’ generous scope of practice including:

• Chest tube insertion
• Central line insertion
• Surgical airways
• Pericardiocentesis
• Rapid sequence intubation

Position Hours: 6:00pm - 6:00am

Department Summary  Vanderbilt LifeFlight is part of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is a comprehensive emergency medical services provider, including air and ground ambulance transport, Event Medicine coverage, and Emergency Communications. Vanderbilt LifeFlight's air operations is provided by Air Methods Corporation. All medical staffing, patient care and clinical services is provided by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. All ground ambulance and event medicine se