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Dec 26, 2024
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2023-2024 SCC Catalog Archived
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EMS 272 - Paramedic Capstone Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Clinical Hours: 12 Credits: 4
Description: This course provides the opportunity for the student to function as a team leader in a 911 response agency by managing and accounting for all aspects of the emergency scene and patient care.
Prerequisite(s): Take EMS 240 , EMS 241 and EMS 242 with a minimum grade of C. Corequisite(s): Take EMS 270 . Course Topics:
- Scene safety
- Therapeutic communication and cultural competency
- Patient complaints
- Assessment
- Psychomotor skills
- Professionalism
- Decision making
- Practical application of emergency care principles as a team member on a 911 emergency ambulance
- Scene leadership
- Record keeping
Textbooks: Textbook information can be found on the Book Inn website Required Materials:
- EMS 272 Paramedic Capstone Competency Logs
- Paramedic Clinical & Internship Manual
- Stethoscope
Grading System: An overall grade of C or higher is required for transferability.
A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79
D = 60 - 69
F = 0 - 59 Student Learning Outcomes:
- Apply principles of safety to ensure the safety of the rescuer and others during an emergency.
- Demonstrate completion of a comprehensive history and physical examination to identify factors affecting the health and health needs of a patient.
- Formulate a field impression based on an analysis of comprehensive assessment findings, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
- Relate assessment findings to underlying pathological and physiological changes in the patient’s condition.
- Integrate patient assessments to formulate a treatment and disposition plan for patients with a variety of medical and traumatic complaints of varying acuity levels.
- Perform basic and advanced interventions as part of a treatment plan intended to mitigate the emergency, provide symptom relief, and improve the overall health of the patient.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and modify treatment plan accordingly.
- Integrate and synthesize the multiple determinants of health and clinical care.
- Demonstrate safe and effective performance of all psychomotor skills within the National EMS Scope of Practice Model and state Scope of Practice at the paramedic level.
- Express attributes of exemplary professional behavior including, but not limited to, integrity, empathy, self-motivation, appearance/personal hygiene, self-confidence, communications, time management, teamwork/ diplomacy, respect, patient advocacy, and careful delivery of service.
- Perform health screenings and referrals.
- Report and document assessment findings and interventions.
- Assemble and report data to be used for epidemiological and research purposes.
- Apply comprehensive knowledge to provide basic and advanced emergency care as an EMS team member on an emergency call.
- Integrate comprehensive knowledge to function as the team leader of a routine, single patient advanced life support emergency call.
For SCC Online Courses: If the course you are taking is online, please review the SCC Online Course Policies that include:
- Identity Verification
- Required materials for all online courses
- Mandatory Attendance Requirement
- Orientation and Support
- Proctored Exams
Standard SCC Course Policies: Please review the Standard Course Policies on the following topics:
- Academic Integrity
- Add/Drop period
- Attendance
- Classroom Conduct
- Equal Access
- IT Access
- Online Behavior
- Online Confidentiality
- Services For Students with Disabilities
- Student Concerns
- Student Help Services
- Withdrawals
Official Course Syllabus 2023-2024
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