EMS 505 - EMS Clinical II

Credits: 6
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 24
Course Type: Voc/Tech

Students successfully completing EMS Clinical 505 will transition the learned and mastered individual skills from Lab 401, application of those individual skills to simulated and live scenarios in EMS Lab 402, and Clinical 501 and begin transitioning into a team leader role under the guidance of an approved preceptor. A portion of Clinical 505 will include the completion of the students clinical capstone requirements as outline in CoA appendix G. During this time students will be expected to act as a team leader executing pt. assessments, treatment plan, individual skills, and pt. destination decisions, with the student preceptor acting as a safety net to the student acting as a team lead. All learned skills, assessments, and treatments from the entirety of the previous coarse work, can and often will be utilized during EMS clinical 505.
Prerequisite: EMS 501
Competencies

Formulate a treatment plan for the neonatal patient
1. Assess a neonate
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for the pediatric patient
1. Assess a pediatric patient
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for the chronically ill child
1. Assess a chronically ill child
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for the child with special health care needs
1. Assess a child with special health care needs
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for geriatric patients
1. Assess a geriatric patient
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for assault patients
1. Assess an assault patient
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for those who face physical challenges
1. Assess a patient with physical challenges
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for a patient with mental challenges
1. Assess a patient with mental challenges
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for a patient with social challenges
1. Assess a patient with social challenges
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for a patient with financial challenges
1. Assess a patient with financial challenges
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Formulate a treatment plan for chronically ill patients
1. Assess a chronically ill patient
2. Determine a plan of care
3. Initiate a treatment plan
Classify the epidemiology of high risk patients
1. Discuss the factors promoting the growth of home care
2. Discuss the Medicare act of 1965
3. Determine the number of patients who are considered high risk
Characterize the incidence of high risk patients
1. Determine typical medical problems encountered
2. Describe commonly found medical devices
3. Discuss chronic diseases requiring home respiratory support
Incorporate emergency medical services for children
1. Define the role of EMS-C
2. Identify pediatric health care concerns
3. Organize a program educating children about injury prevention
Identify common lethal mechanisms of injury in the pediatric population
1. Identify the most common mechanisms of injury
2. Describe special considerations for airway control
3. Determine differences in immobilization between the adult and child
Distinguish child abuse and neglect
1. Determine the perpetrators of abuse
2. Describe the types of abuse
3. Describe the management of the potentially abused child
Classify common issues surrounding children with special health care needs
1. Define tracheostomy tube
2. Describe common home care devices
3. Perform a gastrostomy feeding
Establish the dosage for medication administration in infants and children
1. Exhibit how to calculate from pounds to kilograms
2. Discuss how dosages differ in children from adults
3. Discuss how some medications are not appropriate for children
Distinguish the route of administration for medication administration in infants and children
1. Perform medication administration through a gastrostomy tube
2. Determine which medications need compounding to administer
3. Describe how some medications interact with feedings in infants and children
Discuss the demographics of increasing size of the elderly population in this country
1. Describe population characteristics in America
2. Define gerontology
3. Describe societal issues surrounding the elderly
Determine the impact of polypharmacy on the elderly patient
1. Define polypharmacy
2. Determine medication compliance with an elderly patient
3. Describe the factors which increase medication compliance in the elderly
Characterize the impact of dosing errors in the elderly patient
1. Discuss how physical changes in the elderly leads to overdose
2. Determine how mental status changes may be related to medication
3. Define drug toxicity problems due to renal efficiency decline
Examine common complaints of elderly patients
1. Discuss the impact of falls and mobility
2. Describe communication difficulties
3. Determine problems with incontinence and elimination
Determine principles to employ when communicating with the elderly
1. Demonstrate how to introduce oneself
2. Demonstrate ways of appropriate conversation
3. Simulate practices for preserving the patient’s dignity
Manage patients who are culturally diverse
1. Integrate psychosocial principles for culturally diverse patients
2. Anticipate the patient needs
3. Manage the treatment plan
4. Determine different assessment techniques

Competencies Revised Date: AY2022