Ambulance Dispatcher

Duties And Responsibilities : An Emergency medical dispatcher is a professional telecommunicator, tasked with the gathering of information related to medical emergencies, the provision of assistance and instructions by voice, prior to the arrival of Emergency Medical Services, and the dispatching and support of EMS resources responding to an emergency call. The term Emergency Medical Dispatcher is also a certification level and a professional designation, certified through the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO),^[1] the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch,^[2] and Power Phone, Inc.^[3] Many dispatchers, whether certified or not, will dispatch using a standard Emergency Medical Dispatch protocol.

Salary: The median annual wage for police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers was $36,300 in May 2012. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount, and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $23,190, and the top 10 percent earned more than $56,580.

Education:  Emergency medical dispatchers, or EMDs, are vital members of the emergency response system. They are usually the first professionals to receive an emergency call about a suddenly ill or injured person .

Reflection: No because its something people talk about do that and its not something ive wanted to be or really see myself as