J Korean Soc Emerg Med.  1998 Jun;9(2):207-219.

The present activity and job satisfaction of 119 rescuer

• Yoo IS
• Kwon SS

Abstract

BACKGROUND: It goes without saying for the importance of pre-hospital care in EMS system. At present 119 rescuers take charge of the majority for the pre-hospital care in Korea. But the present activity and job satisfaction of 119 rescuers is not studied. METHOD: The authors analyzed the questionnaire from the 98 rescuers had taken the lessons on emergency medical technician training program at the Central Fire Fighting School, Cheonan city. We used a Likert's five stage barometer for the analysis of job satisfaction.
RESULTS
On regional distribution of rescuers 29.6% was in metropolitan city and 70.4% was from each province. On sexual distribution male was 93%, average age was about 30 years old. The academic background was commonly below the high school graduation. Sixty-one of 98 rescuers (62.2%) was married. The monthly mean income is 1.07 million Won. There was a statistical difference of the monthly mean income between the age, sex, and the period of work (p<0.05). The average duration of job was 27 months. In most cases. the patients or relatives decided the evacuation hospital (89.8%). 67.0% of rescuers answered the necessity of emergency communication system during transport. The serious problems during transport were the lack of manpower, the knowledge of emergency care, the deficit of emergency equipment and telecommunication system. The priority of decision for evacuation hospital is the presence of special medical team, the severity of patients, the presence of modern hospital. The emergency equipment of ambulance was satisfactory in general. Almost all the rescuers (99.0%) want continuous education and 92.7% of them want at the emergency center or general hospital twice a year. The degree of job satisfaction was the job of special knowledge and skills, the professional work and self-assurance in order.
CONCLUSION
119 rescuers were gratified generally at the job satisfaction. But it was poor at work condition. The authors think that a government office and the korean society of Emergency Medicine must hard work for the improvement of work condition and the administration of continuous education.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Ambulances
Chungcheongnam-do
Education
Emergencies
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Medical Technicians
Emergency Medicine
Fires
Hospitals, General
Humans
Job Satisfaction*
Korea
Male
Surveys and Questionnaires
Telecommunications