Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
The EMS Certificate provides enhanced entry-level job training for employment in a Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance service and the EMS ride-along experience requirements for persons interested in entering a paramedic program. Included in the program is an 80-hour ride-along clinical with Metro Ambulance Services. Areas covered are special transportation training, an ambulance service operations and run simulation course, behind-the-wheel emergency driving course, proper lifting techniques plus interpersonal communication skills that paramedic schools and employers are seeking. Cleared criminal background check and completed TB skin test required.
Award Outcomes
- Demonstrate his/her role and responsibilities as a member of the emergency medical team
- Apply emergency medical safety principles in the work place
- Apply critical thinking skills in care management
- Assess patient for traumatic injuries
- Assess patient for medical illnesses
- Demonstrate clear oral communications
- Exhibit personal, professional and academic ethics
- Apply quality improvement concepts
- Classify patient conditions for treatments needed
- Demonstrate effective treatment skills
- Demonstrate safe transport of patients
- Demonstrate skills for the National Registry of EMT�s