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EMT 227LC - ALS Practicum: Clinical Lab-Emergency Room

1.5 Credits, 4.5 Contact Hours
0 lecture periods 4.5 lab periods

Techniques for performing skills and completing documentation in accordance with established guidelines, orders, and protocols for critical care, emergency department, labor and delivery, pediatrics, and other specialty units. Includes applying skills associated to the scope of practice for the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Professional.

Information: Acceptance into an Paramedic  program is required before enrolling in this course.
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Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify skills appropriate to the scope of practice for the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Professional.
  2. Apply skills to patients under medical supervision in accordance with established protocols.
  3. Utilize techniques for performing and documenting in the following areas: critical care, emergency, labor and delivery.
  4. Utilize techniques for performing and documenting in the pediatrics and specialty unit areas.

Performance Objectives:
  1. Demonstrate the cognitive (knowledge) learning domain while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
  2. Demonstrate the psychomotor (skills) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
  3. Demonstrate the affective (behavior) learning domains while performing all patient care assessments and therapeutic modalities in out of classroom environments (patient care settings) as well as case based scenario labs.
  4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as a team in a patient care setting.

Outline:
  1. Critical Care Unit
    1. Cardiac Catheter Lab
    2. Newborn Intensive Care
    3. Operating Room
    4. Pediatric Intensive Care
    5. Other intensive care units
  2. Emergency Department
    1. Main
    2. Pediatrics
    3. Trauma
    4. Triage
  3. Labor and Delivery
    1. Main
    2. Nursery
  4. Pediatrics
    1. Unit
    2. Department
  5. Specialty Units
    1. Anesthesiology and post anesthesiology
    2. Cardiac telemetry
    3. Emergency Medical Dispatch Center
    4. Psychiatry


Effective Term:
Full Academic Year 2018/19