As an Emergency Ambulance Driver, you will need to master following:

• assist ambulance paramedics
• clean vehicle interiors
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• drive ambulance under emergency conditions
• ensure ambulance roadworthiness
• maintain emergency vehicle equipment
• medical dispatch
• monitor patients during transfer to hospital
• position patients undergoing interventions
• special equipment in emergency
• tolerate stress
• transfer patients
• transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
• work in multidisciplinary teams related to emergency care
• write reports on emergency cases

More generally, an emergency ambulance driver is also versed in:

• adhere to organisational guidelines
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• emergency cases
• empathise with the healthcare user
• first aid
• follow verbal instructions
• health care legislation
• health care occupation-specific ethics
• human anatomy
• hygiene in a health care setting
• infection control
• listen actively
• operate an emergency communication system
• operational tactics for emergency responses
• pathogenic microorganisms
• provide first aid
• resuscitation

It also helps to know the following:

• decontaminate ambulance interior
• disability care
• drive helicopter under emergency conditions
• handle patient trauma
• operate specialised equipment in emergency
• pilot boat for medical emergency services
• sanitary technology
• apply organisational techniques
• assess nature of injury in emergency
• childbirth
• communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
• maintain order at scenes of accidents
• perform multiple tasks at the same time
• pharmacology