Emergency Medical Technician Refresher

This course is designed for students to become familiar with the overall aspects of workforce safety and wellness; understand legal issues and matters affecting infectious diseases.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Understand standard safety precautions
• Use personal protective equipment
• Maintain stress management/deal with death and dying
• Understand and apply preventative measures to avoid work-related injuries
• Apply proper techniques for lifting and moving of patients
• Understand disease transmission
• Understand and practice wellness principles

Blended Learning- Lecture and online learning materials will be presented in this course

This course will give students an awareness of hazardous materials.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Understand risks and responsibilities of a cold zone
• Understand other related special incidents

Method of Instruction: Blended Learning

This course will provide fundamental knowledge of basic emergency care and transportation based on assessment findings for an acutely injured patient.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Understand and apply trauma scoring to assess and manage the patient
• Know and understand rapid transport and destination issues
• Determine transport mode

Blended Learning- Lecture and online learning materials will be presented in this course

This course will provide fundamental knowledge of basic emergency care and transportation based on assessment findings for an acutely ill patient.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Understand the difference between medical emergencies and trauma emergencies
• Name the various categories of common medical emergencies
• Describe the evaluation of the nature of illness
• Understand and apply assessment of the patient
• Explain the importance of transport time and destination selection for the patient

Blended Learning- Lecture and online learning materials will be presented in this course

CPR Professional Rescuer

Course Pre-requisites: none

Blended Learning- Lecture and online learning materials will be presented in this course

This course applies a fundamental knowledge of the growth, development, and aging processes as well as assessment findings to provide basic emergency care and transportation for a patient with special needs.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Understand and be familiar with the various classifications of special patient populations: obstetrics, neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, and patients with special challenges

Blended Learning

This course will introduce students to FEMA’s Incident Command System (ICS), which is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management approach.

Course Pre-requisites: none

Course Outline:

• Allows for the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating within a common organizational structure.
• Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and functional agencies, both public and private.
• Establishes common processes for planning and managing resources

Technology Based; Technology Enhanced