Job Description
The Health Care
Service Support – Iraq Program Manager establishes a clinically safe and
professionally managed healthcare environment and provides primary
health care as well as resuscitative surgical care in accordance with
U.S. or equivalent medical standards on a 24-hour basis, 365 days of the
year to Chief of Mission (COM) personnel U.S. Embassy Baghdad, serving a
population of approximately 14,000 adults.Scope:
The EMT is clinically supervised by the site medical director or other physician extenders on the work site and ultimately reports to the HCSS-Iraq Program Manager
The EMT will be assigned to treat patients in one of three settings: (1) Field Health Unit, (2) Small medical/trauma hospitals, (3) Large medical/trauma hospital and assists in examination and treatment of patients under the direction of a physician or physician extender.
Interviews patients, measures vital signs (i.e., pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, weight, and height), and records the information on patients' charts. EMT may be required to draw and collect blood samples from patients and prepare specimens for laboratory analysis.
In some settings the EMT-P may be assigned a leadership role as Lead EMT-P.
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