Community Health/Critical Care Paramedic

Program Requirements (16 credits)

• EMS 290 - Pediatric Emergencies Prehospital Professionals Initial Provider Credits: 2
• EMS 292 - Critical Care Paramedicine Credits: 8
• EMS 294 - Community Health Paramedicine Credits: 4
• EMS 298 - Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Credits: 2

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Community Health/Critical Care Paramedic Certificate program, the learner will be able to:

1.    Demonstrate ethical and professional behaviors consistent with Critical Care Paramedicine, Community Health Paramedicine, and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Paramedicine and expanded scope of practice.
2.    Integrate the pathophysiological significance of comprehensive assessment findings to manage Critical Care and high-risk patients.
3.    Synthesize Critical Care Paramedicine, Community Health Paramedicine, and TECC Paramedicine standard of care and expand the scope of practice to perform a comprehensive patient assessment.
4.    Integrate pathophysiologic principles, epidemiology, and comprehensive assessment to formulate a differential diagnosis for patients in critical care settings.
5.    Utilize diagnostic technology and resources to interpret lab values of Critical Care and high-risk patients.
6.    Integrate the pathophysiological significance of comprehensive patient assessment findings to implement a management plan according to Critical Care Paramedicine, Community Health Paramedicine, and TECC Paramedicine to expand the scope of practice.
7.    Synthesize Community Paramedicine standard of care and expand the scope of practice to manage medical conditions, behavioral health, end-of-life situations, special needs, and home health care.
8.    Differentiate the levels of threat and perform comprehensive trauma patient assessment and treatment according to levels of threat.
9.    Manage various trauma conditions according to scope of practice, levels of threat, and TECC guidelines.