The student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate proper hygiene techniques and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
2. Demonstrate the various techniques to establish intravenous routes.
3. Exhibit different basic and advanced airway management techniques.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of different components of cardiac monitor devices.
5. Demonstrate the different techniques of medication administration.
6. Demonstrate through simulated scenarios how to manage scenes and provide unbiased patient care.
7. Demonstrate the proper techniques for transferring patient care.
8. Demonstrate proper management of special population, pediatric, and trauma patients.
9. Analyze the pharmacokinetics of prehospital medications.
10. Apply an in-depth understanding of the pharmacodynamics of prehospital medications.
11. Select the appropriate pharmacological intervention based on the patient's needs.

1. Proper hygiene techniques
   1. Hand washing techniques
   2. Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment
   3. N-95 mask
   4. P-100 mask
   5. Donning and doffing medical gloves
2. Establishing intravenous routes
   1. IV techniques
   2. IO techniques
   3. Setting up, starting IVs
3. Basic and advanced airway management techniques
   1. NPAs, OPAs
   2. Suctioning
   3. Endotrachel intubation
   4. Tracheotomy care
   5. Multi lumen devices
   6. O2 therapy
4. Cardiac monitor devices
   1. 4 lead
   2. 12 lead
   3. Cardioversion
   4. Pacing
   5. Defibrillation
   6. EtCO2
   7. Pulse Ox
5. Medication administration
   1. Medication packaging
   2. Routes of administration
   3. Medication calculations
6. Simulated scenarios to manage scenes and provide unbiased patient care
   1. Various special population (OB, pediatric, geriatric) and trauma patients
   2. Scene approach and control
   3. General impression
   4. History and physical
   5. Working diagnosis
   6. Appropriate treatment
7. Transferring patient care
   1. Documentation
   2. Radio report
   3. Verbal report
8. Trauma management
   1. Bleeding control
   2. Fluid replacement
   3. Bandaging and splinting
   4. Cervical spine precautions
   5. Environmental emergencies
9. Pharmacokinetics of prehospital medications
   1. Drug absorption and distribution
   2. Metabolism and elimination
   3. Influencing factors in drug action
10. Pharmacodynamics of prehospital medications
    1. Mechanism of action
    2. Drug dose relationships
    3. Drug classes and therapeutic applications
11. Pharmacological intervention selection based of patient need
    1. Patient assessment
    2. Drug indications and selection
    3. Clinical decision making

1. Proper hand washing, Personal Protective Equipment
2. Patient assessment
3. Intravenous access, intraosseous infusion
4. Pharmacology, medication administration
5. Airway management, endotracheal intubation, oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway, suctioning, dual lumen airways
6. Prehospital advanced life support
7. Pediatric advanced life support
8. 911 call simulations and case studies
9. Special population, pediatric, and trauma management

Laboratory psychomotor skill test
National-style oral examinations of 911 call simulations
National-style paramedic affective evaluation: observe student behavior, document, and counsel student
Written assignments, including prehospital patient care report forms
Written tests: multiple choice, matching, essays, fill-in-the-blank, short answer

Students will practice skills in preparation for the NREMT skills testing
Lecture presentations and classroom discussion
In-class projects, group presentations

Foothill College Paramedic Program. Student Laboratory Manual. 2021.

1. Read 1-6 books throughout the quarter on paramedic: anatomy and physiology, pediatric advanced life support, respiratory emergencies, etc. Weekly reading assignments 60-100 pages
2. Writing assignments: weekly essays are assigned; for example, compare and contrast pulmonary edema secondary to left heart failure and cardiogenic shock
3. Workbook/writing assignments are given each week and include: matching, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, identify, ambulance calls, true/false, short answer, word find, place photos in order, fill-in-the-table, problem solving, labeling diagram
4. Medical research
5. Write prehospital patient care report form