EMT

TRAINING PROGRAMS

This four-month course provides the minimum certification to treat patients in an EMS setting.  The class includes lecture and hands-on practice for field work and National Registry testing.  Upon showing competency , students begin shift rotations at hospital emergency rooms and on ambulances.  Students work under  the direction of hospital staff and experienced Paramedics.  Upon successful course completion students will be eligible to take the National Registry Examination to obtain their State licensing.

EMT FOCUS

EMT-Basic training is divided into three main categories. 

The first and most important category focuses on the care of life-threatening or potentially life-threatening conditions.  Students will learn how to evaluate the scene and situation, ensure that the scene is safe, perform an initial assessment of the patient, obtain a history of the episode and a pertinent past medical history, identify life-threatening injuries or conditions, establish and maintain an open airway, provide adequate ventilation, manage conditions that prevent proper ventilation, provide high-flow supplemental oxygen, perform CPR, perform automated external defibrillation, control external bleeding, recognize and treat shock, care for patients in an acute life-threatening medical emergency, identify and rapidly prepare or "package" patients for transportation.

The second category covers conditions that are not life-threatening but are key components of emergency medical care or are necessary to prevent further harm before the patient is moved.  Students will learn to do the following: identify patient for whom spinal precautions should be taken and immobilize them properly, dress and bandage wounds, deliver a baby, splint injured extremities, cope with the psychological stresses on patients, families and  fellow EMS colleagues and themselves.

The third category covers issues related to the ability to provide emergency care such as understanding  roles and responsibilities, following protocols and orders, understanding ethical and medicolegal problems, emergency vehicle and defensive driving, dispatching and communication protocols, reporting and documentation and more.

PREREQUISITES

• High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent
• A valid Drivers License
• Felony free Criminal History
• Hepatitis B Vaccination, Current TB Test, proof of MMR Asset testing or Asset score in Math or Reading or equivalent

Program Cost: $800.00 (does not include textbooks)

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