EMS 210 Emergency Medical Technician I (5 credits)
Prerequisite Proof of college level reading, Washington State EMT Requirements 18.73 RCW, 246-976-141 WAC, local Hospital immunization/background check for clinical rotations, AHA Healthcare Provider/BLS or Military CPR Certification.
Course Description
A foundational course outlining the fundamental principles of the Emergency Medical System (EMS). Cognitive abilities include an introduction into lifesaving skills in airway management, topographic anatomy, and basic pharmacology. Course also concentrates on the safety and well-being of the EMS provider, medical and legal issues, and documentation.
Course Content
A. Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) – History, roles, safety, and evidence-based decision making.
B. Workforce Safety and Wellness – Infectious disease, personal protective equipment, stress management, and injury prevention.
C. Medical, Legal, and Ethical issues – Patient consent/refusal, advanced directives, criminal actions,
mandatory reporting, and ethics and morals.
D. Communication and Documentation – Interviewing techniques, verbal defusing, Transfer of care, and team dynamics.
E. Medical Terminology – Anatomical and medical terms.
F. Human body – Anatomy and pathophysiology.
G. Life Span Development – Identify developmental stages of all ages and safety aspects.
H. Lifting and Moving – Operational roles.
I. Patient Assessment – Scene size-up, primary assessment, history taking, secondary assessment, monitoring, reassessment.
J. Airway Management – Anatomy, physiology, management, and artificial ventilation.
K. Principles of pharmacology – Emergency medications, administration, indications, contraindications, routes, and actions.
L. Shock – Pathophysiology, causes, and management.
M. Basic Life Support Resuscitation – Cardiac arrest management.
N. Medical Overview – Basic care, complaints, and transport decisions.
Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate fundamental knowledge and skills based on the Emergency medical System (EMS), medical terminology for effective communication, and the basics of human anatomy and physiology pertaining to patient care.
2. Differentiate the major physiologic and psycho-social developmental stages of the human life span.
3. Evaluate understanding and decision making for positive patient outcomes, including medical direction, practical application of treatment, and interventions as indicated.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
1. Evaluate for and address potential hazards to the patient(s), civilians, and emergency management team during an emergency.
2. Access and utilize knowledge necessary to conduct a patient evaluation and administer emergency treatment short of those rendered by advanced life support personnel.
3. Effectively operate and care for equipment used in emergency patient care.
4. Operate as an emergency service provider using sound judgment; applying rationality, self-awareness, critical thinking and discipline in responding to emergency situations.
5. Communicate essential continuing patient care information to advanced life support personnel.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
Lecture Contact Hours 31.5
Lab Contact Hours 37
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 68.5
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