Paramedic

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.

Sign On Bonus: $15,000

• 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.

High School Diploma or GED

Paramedic
Licensure required by the Department of Emergency Medical Services/ National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians