Answer: EMT's may request to be considered for a Paramedic Upgrade by submitting copies of their REMAC & Paramedic certification and following the procedures listed in the EMS Command Operating Guide. When we have vacancies we review the requests and qualified staff are promoted. There are no times frames on this process.

Answer:Yes, FDNY EMTs can be promoted to paramedic once they receive their paramedic and REMAC certification. When the Department has vacancies, requests for promotion are reviewed and qualified candidates are promoted. This happens several times each year.

It is the GJO Jedi Council who decides when or if you should be promoted. The question of promotion will be raised by your Master or a Councilor when either feels you are ready. When the Council is assembled, they will vote. A majority vote is required. You may get the question: "How feel you."

There are no set guidelines for who will get promoted. You have to earn everyone's respect and behave as a true jedi. However, I will provide you with some hints which may proove helpful: We appreciate members who participate in as many battles and roleplays at swfan.net as possible. This is how your character gets well known among the roleplayers. Supporting or helping our group in any possible way which contributes to the GJO cause is a plus.

Answer: A Paramedic provides advanced life support (ALS) in a pre-hospital setting to individuals during medical emergencies. Paramedics receive more advanced training and can perform some invasive procedures and give some medications under the supervision of a physician.

This policy varies depending on the opportunities and the staffing needs, but typically you are expected to stay in your initial position for a period of one year. There are some exceptions to this, as workload shifts and opportunity arises. We handle those instances on a case-by-case basis.

Promotions in the County occur when a higher-graded position comes open, through normal attrition (retirement, termination, death), and a lower-graded County employee competes for and is selected to fill it. The employee would then assume the higher grade of the new position. Before advertising a new vacancy, a department head will normally look within his/her own department first, but it is not mandatory.

Your accreditation runs concurrent with your license, so when your license expires, your accreditation also expires.

For a license renewal you can expect to receive your new paramedic card in most cases in 10 to 15 working days from the time it is received at the EMS Authority if the application is complete. An initial application may take longer to process because of the processing time for the DOJ criminal history check and NREMT test results.

The critical care paramedic course is an 80-hour program which builds on the basic paramedic curriculum and goes into further detail on topics like advanced pharmacology, cardiology, rapid sequence intubation, 12-lead EKGs, blood administration, critical care transport considerations, flight physiology, advanced airway techniques and more.

Paramedics are trained to identify patients by following very strict inclusion criteria. If you are having heart attack symptoms, such as chest pain or shortness of breath, are at least 30 years old and have positive findings for a heart attack on your electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), the paramedics caring for you may decide that you are eligible for the study. However, if you show signs of heart or kidney failure, you will not be considered for the study.