This course includes certification in Prehospital Trauma Life Support and covers techniques of rapid patient assessment, airway management, shock recognition and management, spinal immobilization, stabilization of fractures, kinematics, rapid extrication, geriatric trauma, pediatric trauma, thoracic and abdominal trauma, soft tissue trauma, trauma with pregnant patients, burns, crime scenes, and air evacuation. Students will receive a certificate for the National Association of EMS Providers. Student must be enrolled in the paramedic program or have current paramedic license.

Students rotate through a variety of clinical settings including emergency departments, operating rooms, respiratory therapy, critical care units, and pediatric intensive care units. There is an emphasis on gaining an understanding of the hospital and how intermediates and paramedics from pre-hospital services or transfer services interact with this environment. There is also an emphasis on skills including patient assessment, airway management, endotracheal intubation, medication administration, and intravenous cannulation.

This practicum focuses on the practical application of emergency care in the field setting including scene management, patient assessment, treatment, communications, report writing, and communication with hospital and dispatch personnel. There is also an emphasis on the following skills: Patient assessment, airway management, endotracheal intubation, medication administration, intravenous cannulation, and working with the public.

The focus continues on the practical application of emergency care in the field setting including scene management, patient assessment, treatment, communications, report writing, and communication with hospital and dispatch personnel. There is also an emphasis on the following skills: Patient assessment, airway management, endotracheal intubation, medication administration, intravenous cannulation, and working with the public.

Students rotate through a variety of scenarios designed to help them better prepare for the National Registry Skills Stations. The stations will include, but not be limited to, advanced airway, controlling bleeding wounds and shock, IV cannulation, securing patients to a long board, splinting, and cardiac rhythm recognition.

Upon completion of this course the paramedic student will be able to formulate a field impression and implement the treatment plan for a medical patient, an obstetric, neonatal, pediatric, and geriatric patients.

Students rotate through a variety of clinical settings including emergency departments, operating rooms, respiratory therapy, critical care units, and pediatric intensive care units. There is an emphasis on gaining an understanding of the hospital and how paramedics from pre-hospital services or transfer services interact with this environment. There is also an emphasis on skills including patient assessment, airway management, endotracheal intubation, medication administration, and intravenous cannulation.

This practicum focuses on the practical application of emergency care in the field setting including scene management, patient assessment, treatment, communications, report writing, and communication with hospital and dispatch personnel. There is also an emphasis on the following skills: patient assessment, airway management, endotracheal intubation, medication administration, intravenous cannulation, and working with the public.

Students rotate through a variety of scenarios designed to help them better prepare for the National Registry Skills Stations. The stations will include but not be limited to advanced airway, controlling bleeding wounds and shock, IV cannulation, securing patients to a long board, splinting, and cardiac rhythm recognition.

Upon completion of this course, the EMT-Paramedic student will be able to integrate Pathophysiological principles and assessment findings to formulate a field impression and implement a treatment plan for patients with medical problems. The EMT-Paramedic student will be able to integrate principles and assessment findings to implement a treatment plan for a variety of patients. Treatment plans and field impressions will be formulated for the neonatal, pediatric and geriatric patients. They will also be able to formulate a field impression for patients who have sustained or suffer from abuse, assault, acute deterioration, chronic care and coercive behavior. Students will also learn about operating in hazardous situations and on crime scenes.

Study of modern methods and procedures used in effective human relations and ethics including information on the following: definition and history of human relations, ethics, diversity, self-esteem, motivation, communication and personality styles, conflict management and resolution, and team building and rapport as well as self expression and effective listening skills.

Introduction to the basic principles of sociology including the study of culture, socialization, social structure, social institutions, investigative behavior, deviance, inequalities including race, ethnicity, stratification; demography, population, and theoretical perspectives.

An introduction to the science of psychology including the study of learning theory, memory, personality, growth and development, neurological aspects, abnormal behavior, therapies, intelligence, motivation, emotion, sensation, perception and theoretical perspectives.

Development of both oral and written communicative skills. Students will be able to organize and present effective presentations gaining audience rapport and sending appropriate nonverbal messages as well as formulate effective letters, memos, and reports for business and industry.

This course is designed to give the students a survey of mathematics topics including set theory, logic, geometry and dimensional analysis, financial calculations and management graph theory, probability and statistics. Main emphasis will be the application of problem solving methods while studying topics.

This course is a study of equations and inequalities; functions and graphs; polynomial and rational functions; exponential logarithmic functions; systems of equations and inequalities.

Covers the command and functions available on microcomputers including a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database. Basic keyboarding skills are essential.

This course will give the student practical experience in operating the word processing portion of the Microsoft Office suite.

This course will give the student practical experience in operating the database portion of the Microsoft Office suite.

Covers the basic principles needed for effective personal and business finance management, including the practical applications of budgeting, credit, insurance, taxes, along with business overhead, break-even analysis, and return on investment.

This course will cover the basic principles needed for effective personal financial management, including the practical applications of money management, budgeting, taxes, credit, insurance, housing, investments, and retirement planning.

Introduction to the nature and concepts of economics. Topics include economic systems, measurement and analysis of aggregate variables such as national income, expenditures, fiscal and monetary policy, employment, and inflation. Other policies for macroeconomic stabilization and growth are evaluated.