How to become an EMT/paramedic in Mercer County, NJ?
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you'll have to find a local training center to get your licensure (contact the local EMS agency).  Then after you get licensed contact the agency again and try to get a job with them.
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Hi! I live in S. Jersey, but we are about to move to Rockville, MD.  I know for a fact that in Pennsauken on Route 130 there is the Cerebral Palsy School.  I think you should start there. You didn't specify what part of NJ you were interested in, but I hope this info helps you. From my friends that are teachers, most state that their salaries are based on the area.
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You should contact the police in NJ with this information.\n\nWK
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burlington county where?
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Go to fire school, don't know where you are but in Texas A&M has an excellent fire school. Take an EVOC ( Emergency Vehicle Operations ) In all emergency services education is the answer, firemen, EMS and Police. I am a retired paramedic and after 20 years of work and teaching in that field I have found most accidents and injury come from unfamilarity with protocol and equipment.
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You have to be at least 18 to get your EMT certification so you could join EMS. Some EMS require you be at least 25 or 26 just depends on their insurance. Also some services require that you get your EVOC(Emergency Vehicle Operation Certification).I am an EMT-I and my service requires that you be 26 years old, but I don't have to have the EVOC. Some also require that you have your CDL-A drivers license,but that is very few services.
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Assuming that you need a lay rescuer card (your not working as a nusre, paramedic, ect) you can probaly find a class via your local fire department or hospital.  If they don't offer one they should be able to help you find one.   If your needing a healthcare provider card I would also check with the same places although your chances of finding a free class are not as good.\n\nIf they are not able to help you you can check out the American Heart Assoc website (link below) to find training centers in your area.  Just start calling.  You can also check out the rescue breather site for a listing of instructors in your area.  (they however mostly work for proffit)\n\nPlease let me know where you live and I will see if I can find one for you\n\nJay
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Call the state office in your area to find a source.  There may not be one (see second reference).  The NJ info is the third reference.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://www.kean.edu/facilities/EMS.html
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Do a search of your state. For example type "Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing NJ" if you live in NJ. You can also do searches of "disability".
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Northeast Mississippi Community College offers an EMT training class that is 6 mos long, and it's in the medical field.  You could save lives!!!\n\nGood luck, and God bless.
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Paramedic classes vary from one to two years, even if you have a bachelor's. Since  you already have a degree, you don't need the two year course (that results in an associate's degree). The one year "certificate" course will do just fine. My paramedic training took about one year, including the EMT-Basic prerequisite class, but exclusive of the three month internship. At the school I went to, classes were full time (M-F 6pm to 11pm) for two months, and part time (W-F 6pm to 11pm + one Saturday a month) for the rest of school. We were also required to do clinical rotations (16 hours a week throughout school) and then, of course, there's the internship at the end (riding along as third crew member on an ambulance for three months). Expect it to take about a year and a half, including the prerequisite class and the internship. \n\nThe job market is good; there's always someone hiring. The pay leaves much to be desired, unless you can get on with a fire department as a firefighter/paramedic. From what I've seen, the industry average is from 10-20 an hour, depending on where you work. Private ambulance services pay less (AMR, Rural/Metro), and the fire departments pay the most (of course, you have to be a firefighter to get those jobs). Hospital based or municipality based services pay somewhere in between. \n\nGood points: You get to drive fast, and save lives! It's a blast, really. The other day, I got to intubate a person who's heart had stopped beating, perform CPR, start an IV line, and give medications in the hopes of restarting his heart. How cool is that? Unfortunately, most days are pretty mundane. Nursing home transfers, people calling 911 for a cut toe (no kidding) and that kind of stuff makes up most of the average day. \n\nOther good points: The schedule, which can either suck or be wonderful, depending on your point of view. I work one 24 hour shift, and then I get 48 hours off. I love it; it gives me a two day weekend every third day, but some people just can't get used to being woken up at all hours of the night for emergency calls. If you can't, you can usually find services that offer 8 hour or 12 hour shifts, too.\n \nBad points: There's really no future in this job. Once you get to be a paramedic, you can either move up into management, or teach paramedicine, but that's about it. There's other jobs that you can get with your paramedic qualifications (blood bank technician, medical assistant, ER technician, flight paramedic) but they really don't pay much more, if they pay more at all. Out of the 20 or so paramedics I know, at least 5 are pursuing other education, such as nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, etc. It's a wonderful job, but the backbreaking work can get to you after awhile, and most paramedics move on to other areas of  medicine. The average paramedic works in the field for 7 years before they move on. The burnout rate is pretty high, and it's just a lot of stress to put up with day in, and day out. \n\nThat brings me to the other bad point: Backbreaking work. Patients are heavy, and the stretcher itself weighs about 100 lbs. Usually it's just you and your partner, too. If the patient is exceptionally heavy (over 300 lbs) you can call another ambulance for lift assistance, but otherwise, you're on your own. In the service I work with, we are fortunate enough to have the fire department come out on every emergency call, so the lifting divided among all of us. Most services aren't that lucky. I know many paramedics who had to leave the field due to debilitating back injuries. You can minimize the risk by staying in shape and learning proper lifting technique, but the risk is still very much there.\n\nOne other bad point, which I aready sort of covered: The stress. It gets to you after awhile. I've had nightmares of intubations I was unable to get, of patients I could not save. You learn to deal with
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Try this website  each state is somewhat  different\nIf you have an opportunity to go to NJ I would recommend going to the NJ DOE, this way you can talk to a person. Often times if you call the phone wait is very, very long\n\nhttp://www.state.nj.us/njded/educators/license/
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i don't know the exact standard, but yes, you do need a certain amount of training before you can begin to extricate someone... or you should anyhow (not all departments enforce what their supposed to...) Certification can from form a fire academy (such as Morris County or Middlesex...) or from a tool manufacturer/ distributer in a formal class setting.  Anyone who is untrained should not handle the tool outside a training scenario.
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Maybe you need to clarify what kind of certificate you mean.  There are several jobs though where you can get a certification that is valid in the civillian world.  For example all medics take the national registry exam and are EMT-Basic certified.
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Go to http://www.co.wayne.pa.us/?pageid=32 to view information on job training in Wayne County.  The job training offered includes GED courses.  You can call the Job Training department at (570) 253-7276.\n\nGood luck!
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That depends on the state and the level of certification you want.  In Washington state, you have to already be in a job that requires the certification to be able to take the class.  When I first got my EMT certification years ago it was a 120 hour class with several practicum sessions in an ER.