EMS 223 Providers Emergency Medical Technician (11 credits)

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. Operate as an emergency service provider using sound judgement; applying rationality, self-awareness, critical thinking, and discipline in responding to emergency situations.

4. Effectively operate and care for equipment used in emergency patient care.

5. Demonstrate communication of essential continuing patient care information to advance life support personnel.

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 of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable 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.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 70
Lab Contact Hours 80
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 150