Community Paramedic

Job Description

Job Description

Community Paramedics support Inbound Health’s Hospital-at-Home patients by delivering proactive, in-home care in collaboration with healthcare partners. They help reduce rehospitalizations by monitoring and treating patients according to individualized care plans. As patient advocates, they identify and address barriers to treatment adherence, ensuring safe, patient-centered care.

Job Responsibilities

• Establishes relationships with and provides patient home assessments and care to ensure patient safety and success in the program.
• Assesses, obtains history and treats patient in the home following department procedures and processes.
• Follows orders given for patient care to include medication administration and IV fluid resuscitation
• Competence in procedural skills including, but not limited to, phlebotomy, vascular access device management, hydration therapy, medication administration (oral, intravenous, intramuscular), wound management, specimen collection.
• Provides biometric set up in patients’ homes including education for patient and family.
• Collaborate with the patient, family, interdisciplinary team to provide effective care coordination.
• Share pertinent assessment findings with effective communication skills to collaborate with the remote provider and multidisciplinary team members.
• Ensure all interventions in the patient’s care plan are implemented with a patient centered approach.
• Maintain a therapeutic and professional patient provider relationship.
• Maintains daily paperwork and procedures.
• Performs documentation in EMR per policy and procedure.
• Identifies opportunities for improvements of services provided.
• Participates in performance improvement initiatives.
• Participates in education to improve quality of program.
• Operates and maintains equipment in accordance with manufacturer and company policy.
• Adherence to policy and protocol.
• Other duties as assigned.

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