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Career Guidance Skills assisting and caring S3.2 - providing health care or medical treatments S3.2.0 - providing health care or medical treatments Immobilise patients for emergency intervention
Description
Immobilise the patient using a backboard or other spinal immobilisation device, preparing the patient for stretcher and ambulance transport.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Paramedic in emergency responsesParamedics in emergency responses provide emergency care to sick, injured, and vulnerable persons in emergency medical situations, before and during transport to a medical facility…
- Hospital porterHospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items. Duties Hospital porters typically do the …
Related skills
- Transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- Respond to changing situations in health care
- Conduct physical examination in emergency
- Employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- Disorders of vital functions
- Ensure safety of healthcare users
- Physical science applied to paramedical practice
- Adhere to organisational guidelines
- Observe confidentiality
- Emergency cases
- Clinical science
- Transportation methods
