Basic Emergency Medical Studies, Certificate

PROFESSIONAL-TECHNICAL CORE

• PARM 102 - Emergency Medical Technician CREDIT HOURS MIN: 8

• OR

• PARM 103 - Emergency Medical Technician I CREDIT HOURS MIN: 5 AND
• PARM 104 - Emergency Medical Technician II CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3

TOTAL CREDITS: 8

* Individuals who successfully complete this certificate are eligible to apply to sit for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT).

DEGREE OUTCOMES

• Will understand his or her roles and responsibilities within an EMS system, and how these roles and responsibilities differ from other levels of providers.
• Will understand and value the importance of personal wellness in EMS and serve as a healthy role model for peers.
• Will be able to integrate the implementation of primary injury prevention activities as an effective way to reduce death, disabilities and health care costs.
• Will understand the legal issues that impact decisions made in the out-of-hospital environment.
• Will understand the role that ethics plays in decision-making in the out-of-hospital environment.
• Will be able to apply the general concepts of pathophysiology for the assessment and management of emergency patients.
• Will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles of pharmacology and the assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a pharmacologic management plan.
• Will be able to safely and precisely access the venous circulation and administer medications.
• Will be able to integrate the principles of therapeutic communication to effectively communicate with any patient while providing care.
• Will be able to establish and/ or maintain a patient airway, oxygenate, and ventilate a patient.
• Will be able to use the appropriate techniques to obtain a medical history from a patient.
• Will be able to integrate the principles of kinematics to enhance the patient assessment and predict the likelihood of injuries based on the patient’s mechanism of injury.
• Will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with shock or hemorrhage.
• Will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with cardiovascular disease.
• Will be able to integrate pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for the patient with a neurological problem.
• Will be able to integrate the pathophysiological principles and the assessment findings to formulate and implement a treatment plan for the geriatric patient.