EMS 294 - Community Health Paramedicine

1. Paramedic standard of care and scope of practice: ethical and professional behaviors, social and cultural competence, and patient advocacy
2. Factors of effective communication and decision making in critical care team dynamics
3. Comprehensive needs and patient assessment
4. Equipment and diagnostic technology: laboratory analysis and diagnostic studies
5. Pharmacology
6. Comprehensive patient assessment
7. Differential diagnosis
8. Patient management with expanded scope of practice: medical conditions, behavioral health, special needs, and home health care
9. Management plan: on-scene management plan and social service resources
10. Health information technology

1. Synthesize community paramedicine standard of care and expanded scope of practice to perform a comprehensive patient assessment. (1, 2)
2. Demonstrate patient advocacy within the community paramedicine standard of care and expanded scope of practice. (1, 3)
3. Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior consistent with the community standard of care and expanded scope of practice. (1, 4)
4. Synthesize community paramedicine standard of care and expanded scope of practice to perform a differential diagnosis. (1-5)
5. Synthesize community paramedicine standard of care and expanded scope of practice to manage medical conditions, behavioral health, end-of-life situations, special needs, and home health care. (1-8)
6. Navigate social service resources and referrals as part of the management plan. (9)
7. Utilize types of health information technology. (10)