Westmed Ambulance Service is one of the largest ambulance providers in Northern California. The Operations team is responsible for Emergency and Non-Emergency calls throughout East and South Bay counties of Northern California with deployment centers in Alameda and Santa Clara. Come grow your career with us and learn why we are the quality ambulance service of choice for so many.
The Westmed Ambulance Critical Care Transport Registered Nurse is a self-motivated role with the ability to function in a high stress environment. This role will be responsible for the most critically and unstable patients (adult and pediatric) with life threating conditions. The ideal candidate will be both a team leader as well as a team member to work with EMT’s and Paramedic’s in unique healthcare environments.
Responsibilities:
- Assessing patients quickly upon arrival
- Heart monitor, ventilator, invasive monitoring, infusion pumps, recording, and evaluating vital signs
- Transporting the patient quickly and safely to a hospital or long-term care facility
- Preparing patients for the receiving facility
- Administering medications
- Infusing blood products
- Monitoring patients for reactions to medication
- Responding to changes in the patient’s condition
- Collaborating and communicating with other members of the transport care team
- Acting as an advocate for the patient
- Communicating with the hospital staff and medical team about the patient being transported
- Performing procedures as ordered and needed
- Consistently follows evidence based practice bundles and nursing standards/procedures to provide nursing care that eliminates preventable events of patient harm and promotes excellent patient outcomes
Skills Required
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license
- Ability to manage critically unstable adult and pediatric patients
- Competency with ventilators, cardiac monitors, invasive monitoring, and infusion pumps
- Ability to administer medications and infuse blood products and monitor for reactions
- Strong assessment, clinical decision-making, and ability to function in high-stress environments
- Effective communication and collaboration with transport team and receiving hospital staff
- Ability to perform procedures as ordered and follow evidence-based nursing practice bundles
What We Do
Westmed Ambulance Service provides emergency and non-emergency medical transportation, including BLS, ALS, and Critical Care RN transport. They also offer special event medical stand-by services and community education programs in CPR, AED, and First Aid.
