EMS 242: PARAMEDIC PATIENT ASSESSMENT

Credits 3
This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to perform a comprehensive patient assessment, make initial management decisions, and to communicate assessment findings and patient care verbally and in writing. Content areas include: airway management, history taking, techniques of the physical examination, patient assessment, clinical decision making, communications, documentation and assessment based management.
Prerequisites

Admission to program. BIO 111 (EMS 189) or BIO 201 with C or higher.

Corequisites

EMS 241, 242, 244, & 257.