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    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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EMS 251 Paramedic Clinical II (Hospital) (4 credits)



Formerly EMS 251 Paramedic Clinical II

Prerequisite Enrollment in the Paramedic Program. Completion of EMS 250 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

Course Description
Completion of in-hospital clinical experience.

Course Content
A. Collaboration of didactic learning and live patient assessment and treatment.
B. Intravenous (IV) catherization
C. Advance airway skills
D. Electrocardiogram (ECG) 12-Lead administration
E. Medication administration

Student Outcomes
1. Provide comprehensive patient assessment and care in the hospital setting.

2. Utilize constructive feedback from industry professionals to improve foundational knowledge and skills.

3. Collaborate with medical personnel and other providers on continued patient care.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:

  1. Address potential hazards to the patient(s), civilians, and emergency management team during an emergency
  2. Conduct a patient evaluation
  3. Maintain equipment used in emergency patient care.
  4. Apply rationality, self-awareness, critical thinking and discipline in responding to emergency situations as an emergency service responder.
  5. Communicate essential continuing patient care information to  hospital personnel.
  6. 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.

Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 40
Clinical Contact Hours 60
Total Contact Hours 100

Potential Methods
Peer Evaluation
Instructor Evaluation
Written Assessments
Self-reflection



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