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LifeFlight Event Medicine 80

Job Summary:

Join LifeFlight Event Medicine (LFEM)

LifeFlight Event Medicine provides high-level clinical care at events throughout Tennessee. The experience you've gained from working in 911 or an emergency department will prepare you for the dynamic nature of LFEM.

Our team includes AEMTs, Paramedics, CCPs, RNs, NPs, and MDs-professionals committed to growing their skills and delivering exceptional care. We provide both onsite medical support and transport services.

Why Choose LFEM?

• Exceptional Training Opportunities through Vanderbilt, including Trauma Conference, Pediatric PM&I, LFEM-specific training, PHTLS, TECC, and more.
• Dynamic Work Environments-from structured settings to fast-paced events.
• Flexibility-work independently or as part of a collaborative team.

Shifts & Scheduling

• Self-scheduling for maximum flexibility.
• PRN Commitment: Minimum of 4 events per month, plus 3 weekend events per quarter.
• Shift Lengths: Most shifts average 6-8 hours, but may range from 3 to 16 hours depending on event needs.
• Timing: Events occur daily, with the highest demand on nights and weekends.

Event Structure

Events can range from indoor/outdoor sporting events to emergency response on clinic and hospital campuses.

• Solo Events: Operate independently, using critical thinking and strong decision-making skills.
• Team Events: Work with a small team led by a supervisor to provide rapid emergency response.
• Large-Scale Events: Collaborate within a large, integrated team alongside advanced providers for efficient, high-quality care.

Our Mission

We serve our community to preserve life and bring hope-because every patient and every moment matters. Join us.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Actively participates with other members of the healthcare team to provide direct patient care.
• Transports patients via various modes of transportation while providing quality ALS and Critical Care management to all ages.
• Responds to emergency requests within Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt sponsored or other contracted events.
• Utilizes the problem solving model to independent resolve patient problems and follow through with HCT to implement solutions.
• Identifies patient and unit problems and finds solutions to resolve problems and follows through to implement solutions.
• Effectively communicates patient handover to the health care team.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Technical Capabilities:

• Ventilator Management (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate ventilator management in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
• Critical Thinking (Novice): Displays clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, and sound evidence in the successful completion of tasks and projects. Demonstrates rational and disciplined thought as manifested in results.
• Airway Establishing (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate airway establishing in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments. Has retained equivalent knowledge from past experience.
• Medication Management (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate Medication Management in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Conducted a comprehensive and systematic assessment of a persons ability to comply with a prescribed medication regime. Conducted an in depth, systematic review of a persons current and past medication history including details of prescription dates, prescribed doses, side effects, interactions and outcomes. Demonstrates enough acumen to recognize problems and to contact the patient's primary care provider.
• Assessing, Intervening & Stabilizing Patients (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate assessing, intervening and stabilizing patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.

Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.

These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health's reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.

Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

Core Accountabilities:

• Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems. Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job. * Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues : Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.- Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner. Delivering Excellent Services:- Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.- Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.- Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support. Ensuring High Quality:- Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.- Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department. Managing Resources Effectively : - Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.- Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.- Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error. Fostering Innovation : - Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.- Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.- Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Position Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

Certifications:

LIC-Driver's License- Tennessee, LIC-Emergency Medical Technician- Paramedic- Licensure-Others

Work Experience:

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level :

1 year

Education:

High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.