Emergency Medical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

One of the few responsibilities and duties that they do is going to help out the injured patients, but when they do they have to be efficient and fast because it can be in the middle of a life or death situation. Another duty they have to do is looking at the signs patients have if they’re developing any sickness or virus and they examine broken bones and take x rays of them and try to give any pain killers. Another task that all EMT do is take pulse of heart and it’s important in order to see if the blood is efficiently pumping blood to the heart correctly, they have very important jobs because they take care of the patients until further notice when they get an official destination.

Average Yearly Salary:

$20,000 - $35,000

Educational Requirements:

In order to become an emergency medical technician you must take training programs for 2-6 month on average and you can be trained at community colleges, technical schools and universities and this can efficiently prepare you for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians certification exam, but in order to get their you need to do good in high school and take the most difficult courses in Science, Math, and English of coarse they have to be AP classes. 

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I would be a emergency medical technician because it seems really interesting and you get to save lifes also they pay really good.