Emergency Medical Technology (EMT)

This course is the first of a two-part series that will prepare students to enter the workforce as an emergency medical service provider. Topics include airway management, patient assessment, and treatment/stabilization for common medical emergencies. Required: Student Petition.

This course is the second of the two-part series that will prepare students to enter the workforce as an emergency medical service provider. Topics include patient assessment, treatment/stabilization for environmental and trauma emergencies, providing emergency care to special patient populations, and EMS operations. Includes 20 hours of observational time in an emergency department and with an EMS unit. Upon successful completion, students will qualify to take the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians cognitive certification exam. Required: Student Petition.

Introduces the student to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Explores the career pathways for EMTs and Paramedics. Examines the history, structure, and function of our modern-day EMS system. Includes provider roles and responsibilities, operations, safety, legal considerations, and career opportunities. In addition, this class provides a foundation for the EMT certification course by including a review of anatomy and physiology; where things are and how they are supposed to work, pathophysiology; what happens when disease or injury causes those systems to fail, and patient assessment; how EMS providers evaluate for those conditions and make treatment and transport decisions.

Covers principles of communication via verbal, written and electronic modes in the provision of EMS. Documentation of the elements of patient assessment, patient care and transport, communication systems, radio types, reports, codes and correct techniques.