2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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EMS 227 Paramedic Skills Lab III (3 credits)



Prerequisite Enrollment in the Paramedic Program.

Course Description
Students demonstrate proficiency and prepare for the paramedic credentialing exam.

Course Content
Comprehensive collaboration of all skills and didactic knowledge used in simulated patient scenarios.

Student Outcomes
  1. Utilize equipment used in providing airway and ventilatory management techniques.
  2. Create a systematic method for assessing patients in simulated scenarios of critical and non-critical trauma and medical emergencies.
  3. Demonstrate the management of stable and unstable patients with various medical emergencies within the scope of practice of a paramedic.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:

  1. Conduct a patient evaluation
  2. Maintain equipment used in emergency patient care.

Core Abilities

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.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 60
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 60

Potential Methods
Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments



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