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Mon 16 Mar, 2009 02:13 am
In my country, there are staff members who accompany the nurse in an ambulance. Their job is to carry the injured person on a stretcher into an ambulance. They are not paramedics or nurses.
Can I call them 'ambulance attendants'?
Thanks.
I believe people who fulfill a similar role in hospitals are called "orderlies".
Elaine Koh asked this at WordReference.com in September 2008. Do you know her? Ambulance Attendants ("AA"s) are employed in the Singapore Fire Service. The standard ambulance crew is a Staff Nurse, a driver and an AA.
Thanks, Contrex.
Finally, I know that they are called ambulance attendants. If only I had known that Elaine Koh had asked about the same topic at WordReference.com. Unfortunately, I do not know her.
In a British hospital, they would be called porters.
But porters don't go out with ambulances.
Thanks to all who have replied to my query.