2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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EMS 224 Paramedic Crisis Resource Management (3 credits)



Prerequisite Enrollment in the Paramedic Program.

Course Description
Mass Casualty Incident Management

Course Content
Crisis communication 
Scene management
Coping with stress as an EMS provider

Student Outcomes
 

  1. Describe the purpose and overall structure of the medical incident command system.
  2. Identify roles pertaining to EMS medical group supervisor, triage, treatment and transport.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:

1. Address potential hazards to the patient(s), civilians, and emergency management team during an emergency.

6. Administer emergency treatment rendered at an advanced life support level. 

Core Abilities:

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.

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.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

Potential Methods
Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments



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