Description
In this capstone course, students will demonstrate the ability to serve as the team leader in a variety of pre-hospital emergency medical situations. The student is responsible for managing and accounting for all aspects of the emergency scene and patient care. While still under the direct supervision of a precepting Paramedic, the student will lead the pre-hospital emergency. Students are required to complete 25 successful pre-hospital team leads. Each team lead will be evaluated individually by the precepting Paramedic. Students will also demonstrate the leadership skills of a Paramedic within the EMS community – teaching continuing education trainings at their service, organizing a blood pressure clinic, assisting in EMT or AEMT labs, etc. Students will be required to document all clinical time and complete a minimum number of assessments and skill sets. Prereq: EMS 204 and EMS 205 Coreq: EMS 206