Foundations of Paramedicine

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the role of paramedics 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.