PM V02 — Paramedic Clinical and Field Practicum
This course provides supervised clinical and field instruction to enhance student's knowledge of emergency care in multiple clinical in-hospital and pre-hospital settings. Students are provided access to adequate numbers of patients, proportionally distributed by illness, injury, gender, age, and common problems encountered in the delivery of emergency care appropriate to the level of the Emergency Medical Services Profession(s). The hospital/clinical experiences may include the operating room, recovery room, intensive care unit, coronary care unit, labor and delivery room, pediatrics, and emergency department, and include exposure to an adequate number of pediatric, obstetric, psychiatric, and geriatric patients. The field practicum experience provides opportunities for paramedic students to observe and participate in emergency medical care supervised by a preceptor on an emergency response vehicle. Requires a minimum of 480 hours, and students must document at least 40 advanced life support (ALS) patient contacts. Students will provide the full continuum of care from initial contact to transfer of care at the receiving facility for half (20 minimum) of all ALS contacts. Students must obtain minimum competency as a Team Leader. The field practicum provides the student with an opportunity to serve as Team Leader in a variety of pre-hospital advanced life support emergency medical situations. Upon successful completion of this course, the student is eligible to sit for the lic