Curriculum

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  EMT Basic

• Emphasizes development of EMT-Basic student skills in patient assessment and examination.
• Recognition of basic signs & symptoms of illness or injury.
• Proper procedures when rendering basic emergency medical care including patient assisted medications, automated external defib, maintenance of non-medicated IVs, and the use of an advanced multi lumen airway device.
• Will also cover basic topics including: human anatomy & physiology; bleeding & shock; bandaging & splinting; med/behavioral emergencies; OB/GYN; environmental emergencies and ambulance operations.

 
National Register Paramedic

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a Paramedic within an EMS system, apply basic concepts of development, pathophysiology and pharmacology to assessment and management of emergency patients.
• Establish and/or maintain a patent airway, while practicing adequate oxygenation & ventilation.
• Integrate pathophysiological principals with assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the trauma patient.
• Integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for the medical patient.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, along with legible, well-organized, and comprehensible writing skills.
• Completes internship to integrate pathophysiological principals and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for neonatal, pediatric, geriatric diverse and chronically ill patients.
• Displays accountable and responsible professional behavior.
• Works in cooperation with many other health team members.
• Safely manage the scene of an emergency.