EMSP 2110 Foundations of Paramedicine (2-2-3)

This course introduces students to the role of the paramedic in today's healthcare system, with a focus on the pre-hospital setting. This course will also prepare students to integrate scene and patient assessment findings with knowledge of epidemiology and pathophysiology to form a field impression. This includes developing a list of differential diagnoses through clinical reasoning to modify the assessment and formulate a treatment plan. Topics include EMS systems, research, workforce safety and wellness, documentation, EMS system communication, therapeutic communication; medical/legal and ethics, life span development, public health; incident management, air medical, scene size-up, primary assessment, history taking, secondary assessment; monitoring devices; and reassessment. Students must pay a $30 supply fee when registering for this course.

Offered Fall

Prerequisite

Prerequisites/Corequisites: EMSP 2120 with a grade of C or higher, EMSP 2130 with a grade of C or higher