Like doctors, paramedics need sound judgement in a crisis to do their job and everyday they carry out a wide variety of emergency assignments. This means that as well as their advanced life support skills, paramedics require other, softer skills, such as grief counselling and violence mediation. In general, the primary skill sets and attributes necessary to be a paramedic include:-
- Being decisive, cool and professional under severe pressure
- Enquiring scientific nature, good problem solving skills
- Excellent people skills
- Wiiling to accept responsibility and accountability when acting alone
- Strong desire to want to help other people
- Demonstrating the capability to act in a team environment
- Able to communicate effectively with the patient or the patient’s relatives and others in their medical team
- IT skills sufficient to manage electronic patient data with due regard for legal and ethical requirements
- The ability to record concisely all the necessary information to support the professional paramedic judgement
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