Paramedic Clinical Internship

Catalog description

Occupational work experience course that provides instruction to enhance student's knowledge of emergency care in a clinical setting. Students are provided access to adequate numbers of patients, proportionally distributed by illness, injury, gender, age, and common problems encountered in the delivery of emergency care appropriate to the level of the Emergency Medical Services Profession(s). Hospital/clinical experiences include the operating room, recovery room, intensive care unit, coronary care unit, labor and delivery room, pediatrics, and emergency department, and include exposure to an adequate number of pediatric, obstetric, psychiatric, and geriatric patients. May be taken any number of times for a maximum of 16 units of Cooperative Work Experience. Transfer: CSU. Prerequisite: EMS 11 with a minimum grade of C, EMS 13 with a minimum grade of C.