EMS 252 Paramedic Clinical III - Capstone Field Internship (11 credits)

1. Demonstrate communication skills as needed as an EMS professional.
2. Demonstrate proficiency in Advanced Life Saving skills.
3. Collaborate with medical personnel and other providers on continued patient care.
4. Perform required tasks to meet eligibility requirements for the National Registry Paramedic Exam (NREMT-P).  

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 responding and 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.

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 60
Clinical Contact Hours 240
Total Contact Hours 300

Potential Methods
Peer evaluation
Instructor evaluation
Written assessments
Group assessments