Emergency Care and Safety

Catalog description

NURS 492 is a comprehensive emergency care and safety course that incorporates basic first aid skills and knowledge and advanced topics such as oxygen therapy, hazardous materials, farm/rural incidents, disaster planning, incident command, triage, and mass casualty incidents. The course includes discussion of infectious diseases and the standard precautions utilized by rescuers to prevent the transmission of disease. Critical thinking and decision-making skills are enhanced through practical exercises using various scenarios to improve the rescuers response in emergency situations. Students successfully passing the practical skill testing receives cards in First Aid/Emergency Care and CPR for the Healthcare Provider/Professional CPR. NURS 492 is a complimentary course to NURS 203 , which is a basic first aid/community CPR general education elective course designed for the non-nursing major who is required to have first aid/CPR certification for their course of study. NURS 492 provides emergency care at a higher level of training and is an excellent course for nursing students with advanced health care knowledge, community health care providers (i.e., school nurses), and any non-nursing major interested in emergency medical services (i.e., Kinesiology).