Emergency Medical Technician - Direct Entry Certificate

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to:

• List key developments in the history of EMS, the five types of services that provide emergency care, and discuss the role of the National Scope of Practice and the National EMS Education Standards as they relate to the levels of EMS education.
• Understand the body’s topographic anatomy, including the anatomic position and the planes of the body, and the major structures of the respiratory system.
• Explain how pharmacology relates to emergency medical technician clinical practice, and describe the regulatory measures affecting medications administered in the pre-hospital setting.
• Describe how to determine the mechanism of injury or nature of illness at an emergency and the importance of differentiating trauma patients from medical patients; discuss some of the possible hazards that may be present at an emergency scene, ways to recognize them, and the precautions to protect personal safety.
• Define the term trauma and explain its relationship to energy, kinetics, and biomechanics.
• Discuss the importance of the American Heart Association’s five links of the Chain of Survival to a successful code; describe how progressive communities can improve survival of pre-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
• Understand the normal changes that occur in the various body systems during pregnancy and the process of childbirth.
• Summarize the medical equipment, safety equipment, and operations equipment carried on an ambulance; provide examples of some high-risk situations and hazards that may affect the safety of the ambulance and its passengers during both pre-transport and transport.
• Perform CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) as instructed in the program.