Ambulance drivers, do you stop if you see an accident on the way to your appointed accident?

Question

What is the rule? I want to be a ambulance driver. Is there a lot of pressure in the job. Do you need to know paramedic work? Are you allowed to stop and assist a person you see in trouble (accident or heart attack) on the way to another accident where others are in trouble?

Answer 1

Well, where do I start? First off, paramedics hate to be called "ambualance drivers". It's considered an insult, because we do far more than drive the ambulance!
There are three levels of emergency medical technicians, but most services usually only use two, so I'll explain those. The first is an EMT-Basic. It's a one semester course, and you have to pass a written and practical exam at the end. The other level is EMT-Paramedic. This takes a year to two years to complete, is very challenging, and at the end you have to take a practical, written, and oral test.
Most services use EMT-Paramedics to respond to emergencies. A lot of services will hire an EMT-Basic as a driver and assistant, and the EMT-Paramedic rides in the back with the patient. In some very rural systems, they will use two EMT-Basics, and they trade off on who rides in the back. Some services don't hire Basics at all, but instead use two Paramedics, and they just trade off on who drives and who does patient care. A few services will hire a non-medically trained person as a driver, but these are few and far in between, and not usually allowed to drive on emergency calls (just transfers between hositals or to nursing homes, that sort of thing).
If you witness an accident on your way to the call, you usually call dispatch and inform them so they can send a second ambulance. You don't usually stop and help, because then, you have to wait for the second ambulance to arrive before you can leave to go on your appointed call, and that would severely delay your response to the appointed call. In most cities, you only have a few minutes to get to the call, or else your company is fined thousands of dollars, so the company discourages anything that delays your response.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I would think it would depend on the nature of the accident you are enroute to. If you are called to get someone who broke a leg, and you see a major accident just happen, I imagine that you'd just call for another ambulance to take care of the broken leg victim and stop for this one. If it was a heart attack victim you were going to and the accident seemed relatively minor, I would think they would call an ambulance for the accident and proceed to the heart attack case because it was more time sensitive.

In any case, if you become an ambulance driver, I'm sure they'll teach you how to do your job.

Answer 3

It would depend on how time-sensitive both the call you're on and the running call are - you balance between the two. If the running call is the more serious, you stop and ask for control to reassign another crew on the original call.
They'll teach you how to do the job in your training. It can be preassured but it's the type of job that demands a certain personality type - if you're right for the role, you'll find it an enjoyable challange; if you're wrong it'll be a scary and insurmountable one. Good luck!

Answer 4

Very complicated. Police can run lines, whether it is amazingly high priced and in easy terms finished in an exceptionally serious crime. With the hot allocation of registrations, the 1st 2 letters are the area of registration section and the subsequent 2 numbers are year of registration. the stunning 3 letters are those that rely. ie: LN fifty six = London reg between Aug & Dec 2006 LN fifty six ABC is the total reg. So if the witness have been given LN fifty six it is not sufficient to track the registered keeper.

Answer 5

yes.