EMS 250 Paramedic Clinical I (4 credits)
Prerequisite Enrollment in the Paramedic Program.
Course Description Initial in-hospital clinical experience for paramedic students.
Course Content Collaboration of didactic learning with live patient assessment and treatment.
Intravenous (IV) catherization
Advance airway skills
Electrocardiogram (ECG) 12-Lead administration
Medication administration
Student Outcomes
- Provide comprehensive patient care in the Emergency Department.
- Utilize constructive feedback from industry professionals to improve foundational knowledge and skills.
- Collaborate with medical personnel and other providers on continued patient care within the hospital environment.
Degree Outcomes Program Outcomes:
- Address potential hazards to the patient(s), civilians, and emergency management team during an emergency
- Conduct a patient evaluation
- Maintain equipment used in emergency patient care.
- Apply rationality, self-awareness, critical thinking and discipline in responding to emergency situations as an emergency service responder.
- Communicate essential continuing patient care information to responding and hospital personnel.
- Administer emergency treatment rendered at an advanced life support level.
Core Abilities Outcomes:
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.
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.
Lab Contact Hours 40 Clinical Contact Hours 60 Total Contact Hours 100
Potential Methods Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments
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