Freehold Emergency Medical Service

Serving time in Emergency Medical Services could be the first steps on your journey into a huge selection of career paths!

Joining your local First Aid squad develops skills and experience your future employers will appreciate. Hiring managers want to know your background, partly to understand if you are trainable, but even more to know if you are dependable and if your experiences have positively shaped your life outlook.

Volunteering with Freehold EMS is sure to develop and strengthen your skills in these areas and more:

Time Management

So you arrive at the Squad Building with the idea of hanging out and answering some First Aid calls. Do you go through your rig and make sure it is ready to go at a moment's notice, or do you surf the cable stations and split your time between phone calls, gossip, texting and reality TV? Your answer is important, because when that alert call comes, finding out your rig is out of oxygen, gas, and any number of crucial pieces of equipment is not only sloppy, it can kill a member of your community, neighborhood, or family. Joining a First Aid squad means joining those who choose to make adult decisions to focus first on the prime question: "What is the right thing to do right now before I do anything else?"

Situation Management

Arriving at a car accident or to the home of someone who is very sick develops strength in stress management. You must be in control of your own emotions or you will be of little help to the person who at that moment depends on your help more than anything else in their universe. With training, and mentoring by seasoned EMTs, you can quickly master your composure and get down to the business of acute patient care. Some day you may find yourself in command of a major accident. Will you know how to control traffic, request more help, and even call in the rescue helicopter? In time you'll not only see it and learn it, but odds are you will be making regular decisions that save lives.

Discipline and Reliability

Your time at Freehold First Aid is valued by your community and by your fellow volunteers. We count on each other to meet all of the expectations of membership. We need to know when we start our shift or arrive to take a First Aid call that ambulances are ready to go, having been restocked by the last crew. Your current work ethic can and will be improved, knowing that what you do and what you do not do can impact the scene of an emergency. Such responsibility cannot be taken lightly, but as you step up and meet the needs of being a reliable and participating member, the meaning of duty and commitment will become clear.

Patient Management

Let's consider some fascinating and exciting healthcare career fields where you can go to work everyday to do something you absolutely love and believe in, and even get paid in the process of doing great work.

Some of these career paths are obvious. Others may be of surprise. For instance, joining a Fire Department in a paid jurisdiction can be very competitive. In most cases, because Fire Departments in urban and paid situations also handle or respond to Medical Emergencies, their Fire Fighters get some or all of an EMT training program. Having your EMT skills and experience from First Aid calls makes you competitive in not only Fire Fighter, but also Police Academy considerations. Your Military path may also be accelerated or improved based on not only EMT training on basic life support, but those attributes listed above are in high demand; in military and private vocations.

It Isn't Just Our Opinion

It turns out this topic is discussed all over, and our assertions can be corroborated in many places. For starters, give this similar article over in Medical Jobs a read.

Give us a look and we think you will agree; this could be the beginning of a beautiful thing.

If you are ready to make a powerful choice, Apply Today!