Glossary
Ambulance Driver Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential ambulance driver terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key ambulance driver vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in ambulance driver training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Bariatric
- For larger patients.
- Defensive driving
- Anticipating hazards.
- Dialysis transport
- Common scheduled trip.
- Dispatch
- Assigns trips.
- EVOC
- Emergency driving course.
- Hours of service
- Limits on driving time.
- Infection control
- Preventing germs spreading.
- Non-emergency transport
- Scheduled patient moves.
- PPE
- Protective gear.
- Pre-trip inspection
- Vehicle check before driving.
- Route
- Planned path.
- Run report
- Trip record.
- Securement
- Strapping in.
- Stair chair
- Chair for stairs.
- Stretcher
- Patient cot.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Ambulance Driver practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Ambulance Driver training.
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