The student will be able to:

1. Observe patients in the following specialty areas: Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit, Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Psychiatric Care Unit, and Intensive Care Unit.
2. Assist in the care of special patients: pediatrics definitive care units including Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit, Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Psychiatric Care Unit, and Intensive Care Unit.
3. Demonstrate beginning/intermediate clinical skills to provide optimal patient care within the confines of state and county guidelines.
4. Systematically process assessment findings and develop conclusions.
5. Describe clearly and concisely pertinent emergency medical information.
6. Facilitate understanding by hospital personnel through effective communication.
7. Demonstrate the ability to safely administer medications.
8. Demonstrate the ability to safely perform basic and advanced airway management techniques.
9. Demonstrate the ability to safely gain venous access in the specialty groups identified above.
10. Demonstrate the ability to perform a compressive assessment, formulate and implement a treatment on adult and pediatric patients.
11. Demonstrate the ability to perform history and physicals on geriatric patients to determine appropriate care and treatment.
12. Demonstrate the ability to perform history and physicals on patients with mental and physical challenge, e.g., Downs Syndrome, to determine appropriate care and treatment.

1. Special patients: Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit, Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Psychiatric Care Unit, and Intensive Care Unit
   1. Learn and discuss the challenges for the above patient groups
2. Assist in the care of special patients: pediatrics, obstetrics, spinal ward, burn, etc.
   1. Learn how to treat patients with special challenges
   2. Discuss with your preceptor your treatment modalities
3. Beginning/intermediate clinical skills to provide optimal patient care within the confines of state and county guidelines
4. Systematically process assessment findings and develop conclusions
   1. Collect patient information and develop a working diagnosis
5. Describe clearly and concisely pertinent emergency medical information
   1. Deliver verbal patient information
6. Facilitate understanding by hospital personnel through effective communication
   1. Communicate your findings for evaluation of assessment skills
7. Medications
   1. Calculations
   2. Modes of administration
   3. Monitoring patients post-administration
8. Perform basic and advanced airway management techniques
   1. Basic airway techniques
   2. Advanced airway techniques
9. Venous access in all age group patients
   1. Safe practices for starting IV
   2. IO techniques
10. Compressive assessment, formulate and implement a treatment on adult and pediatric patients
    1. Critical thinking process to generate a working diagnosis
    2. Make a determination of the best route of treatment according to treatment protocols
11. Compressive assessment, formulate and implement a treatment on geriatric patients to determine appropriate care and treatment
12. Compressive assessment, formulate and implement a treatment on patients with mental and physical challenge, e.g., Downs Syndrome, to determine appropriate care and treatment

1. Student will perform practical application of paramedic theory and skills in a clinical setting
2. Clinical assessment and management and management of adult and pediatric patient medical and surgical needs
3. Review anatomy and management of OB patient
4. Emergency care of adult and pediatric patients, including field assessment and planning
5. Field management of medical, surgical OBN, pediatric and behavioral emergencies
6. Correlation of didactic material with clinical experience
7. Management of interpersonal relationships in the work setting
8. Development of problem-solving strategies

Written tests: multiple choice, matching, essays, fill-in-the-blank, short answer
Assignments: matching, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, fill-in-the-table
Research
National-style paramedic affective evaluation: observe student behavior, document, and counsel student
Nurse preceptor clinical evaluations of psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domain

Hands-on patient care with oversight of an approved hospital clinician with a license of Registered Nurse or higher
Assigned reading, patient care homework given by Clinical Coordinator
Frequent discussion with program staff members

Caroline, L. Nancy. Emergency Care in the Streets. 2018.

Foothill College Paramedic Program. Student Policy Handbook. 2021.

1. Writing assignments: weekly essays are assigned; for example, compare and contrast pulmonary edema secondary to left heart failure and cardiogenic shock
2. Workbook/writing assignments are given each week and include: 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
3. Write prehospital patient care report form
4. Weekly documentation of clinical progress