Syllabus
Paramedic and EMT Recertification
| Course Name: Emergency Medical Services Department | Term/Session: 20222 |
| Course Number: Paramedic/EMT: CAE 0649 & 0650 712808 712809 | Reference Number: |
Table of Contents
Faculty Contact Information
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| Office Phone: | 954-201-6768 | ||||||
| Department Phone: | 954-201-6768 | ||||||
| Continuing Education: | Bldg 8 Central Campus | ||||||
| BC Safety Phone #: | 954-201-HELP (4357) |
Course Description
This course presents basic information with the application of skills and procedures involved in the latest United States Department of Transportation (DOT) EMT-Paramedic and/or EMT National Standard Curriculum and is designed to review and update the student in the delivery of emergency medical services. Successful completion of the course with a grade of (NC) = Completed will receive a certificate of completion of Florida Paramedic and EMT Recertification or (NG) = Not Completed.
General Course Outcomes
The students should be able to
- Provide ventilatory support for a patient
- Provide care to a patient experiencing cardiovascular compromise
- Attempt to resuscitate a patient in cardiac arrest
- Provide post-resuscitation care to a cardiac arrest patient
- Assess and provide care to a patient experiencing an allergic reaction
- Assess and provide care to a near drowning patient
- Assess a patient with a possible overdose
- Provide care to a patient with shock (hypoperfusion)
- Assess a patient with a head injury
- Assess and provide care to a patient with a suspected spinal injury
- Provide care to a patient with a chest injury, or open abdominal injury
- Assess and provide care to an infant or child with cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, shock (hypoperfusion), and trauma
- Prepare an emergency vehicle and equipment before responding to a call
- Drive an emergency vehicle in an emergency situation
- Assess scene safety
- Provide safety for self, patient, and fellow workers
- Infection control precautions (body substance isolation), dispose of sharps (needles, auto-injectors, etc.), dispose of materials contaminated with body fluids
- Use body mechanics when lifting an moving a patient
Prerequisites & Co-requisites
To maximize your chances for success in this course, make sure that you meet the following course prerequisites:
- Course Prerequisites and Co-requisites: none
Attendance and Participation Policies
Regular, active, and meaningful participation in both face-to-face class meetings and online learning activities is a critically important component of this course and is essential to your success. It is recommended that you log into the course several times during the online week. Frequency and quality of participation may affect your grade.
Student Responsibilities: When taking an online course the student needs to be an independent and self-paced learner and possess time-management skills. The student is expected to:
- Login to course web site first week of class.
- Remain in contact with the instructor by E-mail as necessary. (The instructor does not know that you are sick if you do not tell him.)
- Check course web site bulletin board and E-mail at least twice a week. (Once a day is preferred; once a week is not sufficient.)
- Be aware of all course announcements and due dates.
- Read the assigned textbook.
- Read the course notes posted on the course web site.
- Complete all assigned On-line Quizzes.
- Use appropriate communication tools (course web site e-mail and discussion board)
- Observe rules of Netiquette (Do not type in all caps; that is considered shouting on the Internet)
Instructor Responsibilities: The instructor is a facilitator or team leader and grader of the learning experience. The instructor is here to assist you in learning the particular material introduced in this course. The instructor will generally answer E-mail inquiries within 72 hours of posting during the week (Monday through Thursday). Please acknowledge that the instructor is not online 24 hours a day. Allow time for an answer. Also, we all need to be flexible in the event of a county-wide weather or other impact problem.
Assignments will be graded, grades posted, and a bulletin board message posted as to explanation of grade within 72 hours of assignment due date. The instructor cannot send individual grade critiques on assignments. The student must read the explanation of grade and compare their assignment to the explanation. You may submit assignments prior to the due date. But, no assignments will be graded prior to due date.
Consultation: The instructor may be contacted at the above number. If there is no answer, be sure to leave a brief message, with complete name and telephone number with area code. The student will be called back as soon as possible. Email is the best method for student correspondence.
Please familiarize yourself with BC's Attendance Policy.
See the list of activities required for participation and attendance on the General Course Policies page.
General Policies and Technical Requirements
You are responsible for being familiar with Broward College policies and procedures. See technical requirements in this section to "ready" your computer for online activities. A 24/7 helpdesk is available to address all technical issues.
Academic Success Centers (ASC)
- The Academic Success Centers at Broward College are here to ensure your success in this class. You will benefit from an array of academic support services provided in a comfortable, collaborative atmosphere specifically designed to advance your academic achievement. Statistics show that students who use the ASC early and often are more successful than those who do not.
- Smarthinking.com – is an online, web-based, tutoring program that is available 24/7 to all students currently enrolled at Broward College. Smarthinking supports student learning in most subject areas including Accounting, Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, English, Nursing, Math and more. Students can chat online and work on a whiteboard with a tutor, submit questions, and get extensive feedback on essays and research papers.
Academic Honesty
Your academic work must be the result of your own thought, research, or self-expression. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to the following: cheating, plagiarism, unacceptable collaboration, falsification of data, aiding and abetting dishonesty, unauthorized or malicious interference, hacking computer property or software, and online disturbances. Please refer to the Student Code of Conduct Policy and the Student Code of Conduct section located in the Student Handbook for more information. All required class activities are subject to submission to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers.
Types of Academic Dishonesty:
- Cheating: Is defined as obtaining or attempting to obtain, or aiding another to obtain credit for work by dishonest or deceptive means.
- Plagiarism: The use of words or ideas of the original creator without attribution as if they were your own. Plagiarism ranges from copying someone else’s work verbatim and elaborating on or altering someone else’s work.
- Self-Plagiarism: Submitting or reusing parts of a previous paper without referencing source it was first submitted. This includes retaking a course and turning in previously submitted papers and data.
- Unacceptable Collaboration: Using answers, solutions, or ideas that are the results of collaboration without citing the fact of the collaboration is improper.
- Falsification of Data: Making up or falsifying information and data. Examples include making up or altering data for an experiment or citing reference to sources you did not actually use.
- Pay Services: Employing an assignment writing service or having another write the paper for you.
- Enabling: Aiding and abetting another student in an act of academic dishonesty. Examples include giving someone a paper to copy and allowing someone access to your account.
- Unauthorized or malicious interferences: If one person deliberately interferes with the work or activities of another person on purpose to cause the other harm or irreparable damages. Academic honesty violations are considered a breach of policy and may result in academic penalties (zero points on the assignment/test in question, and/or a failing grade for the class), disciplinary action, and/or referral to the Dean of Student Affairs.
Class Policies
- Cell phone - Please turn your phone to silent as to not disturb the class..
- Arriving late/leaving early - Please be considerate of the class in progress and make every effort to arrive on time and do not leave class early.
Disability Services
If you need academic accommodations and/or disability services support, you must contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS). It is your responsibility to contact the ODS to document disability prior to receiving services. You must notify the instructor that you have registered with the ODS and provide the instructor a copy of the ODS letter. Your documentation and any related communication with your instructor remain strictly confidential
Technical Requirements
- Students taking blended courses are expected to be moderately proficient in using a computer. Please go to the Technical Requirements page for a complete list of computer skills and technical requirements.
Technical Issues
- If you need help using D2L, you can review the step-by-step tutorials
- For year-round, 24 hour technical assistance, please visit the 24/7 Help Desk page.
- If an online assignment is due but you are having computer issues, contact the helpdesk prior to the due date/time for a ticket number to submit to instructor.The ticket provides proof of time/date you tried to submit online assignment.
Communication Practices
Communication
- Use the course email tool in D2L is only for private, personal, one-to-one communication with a specific individual, or groups of individuals. Do not send course-related emails to the instructor's BC email address.
- In the event that the course communication tools are unavailable for more than 24 hours, the instructor will communicate with students (if necessary) via their BC email address. Access your BC email account at http://www.outlook.com
Faculty Response
- Course emails will be answered within "XX hours" or see instructor in class. Other students may have the same questions as you or may even be able to answer your questions. Therefore you may email another student. Additionally, you can contact your instructor during their online/in-person office hours or schedule an online/in-person meeting.
Materials
 | Required Text: AAOS, Refresher: Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured. ISBN-13: 9780763742294.Jones and Barlett Publishers, www.jblearning.com |
Methods of Instruction
There are two methods of instruction, online and lab (practical skills). The online coursework consists of 20 hours. The lab (practicetical) portion consists of Two - 8 hr class meetings. See the Course Schedule for a class meetings and out- of-class or online assignments. Students are responsible for regularly reviewing the Course Schedule and completing all required in- and out-of-class assignments.
Schedule and Assignments
Read and refer to this section regularly. It will provide you with an in-class and online schedule of due dates. Deadlines for assignments, assessments, discussions, quizzes, tests, and all other graded and non-graded activities are posted in the course schedule. Submitting work late will be permitted only under extenuating circumstances and only with prior notification and documentation (original funeral notice, original doctor note, etc.).
Suggested assignment schedule:
1. Read assigned chapter in text.
2. Review outlines online.
3. View chapter power point presentation online.
4. Take on-line assessment
Timelines: The course structure is a rapid paced refresher course designed so that a student may complete as many assignments as they wish at the student's pace. On average 1-2 chapters a week will be due by 10:00 PM the following Wednesday.
Example: Student 1 wishes to complete multiple assignments a week therefore will complete this portion of the course early.
Student 2 completes the minimum assignments each week providing the assignment is complete by the Tuesday of that week.
LABS: Students must attend One (Lab 1) and One (Lab 2).
COURSE SCHEDULE: Suggested schedule to complete assessments.
Assignment
| Week 1 Chapters 1 - 7 | |
| Week 2 Chapters 8 - 22 | |
| Week 3 Chapters 23 - 26 | |
| Week 4 Chapters 27 - 29 | |
| Lab #1 | March 19th 0900 - 1800 |
| Lab #2 | March 26th 0900 - 1800 |
Grading and Exam Policy
GRADING POLICY:
Final grade evaluation:
| 1. Lab Participation | 40 Points |
| 2. Assessments 29 Chapters (weighted equally) | 60 Points |
Grade Scale
| NC - Completed |
| NG - Not Completed |
ATTENDANCE: Two mandatory class attendances are required for this course. See Grading Policy to where class participation with online activities is a requirement.
CHAPTER ASSIGNMENTS:
Each Chapter will follow the same pattern. Read the chapter in the text, review chapter outlines and view power point presentation online. After completing the above reading and power point presentation, complete each chapter quiz online. Quizzes are completed online and have no time limit set for the duration of the quiz. However, students completing quizzes must keep in mind that no quizzes will be accepted by the computer after the due date and time.
- Cheating will be considered a breach of BC's Code of Conduct Policy and may result in academic penalties (zero points on the assignment/test in question, a failing grade for the course), disciplinary action, and/or a referral to the Dean of Student Affairs. Examples 1) If it appears that two or more students have submitted the same material for any solo assignments, each student involved will receive zero points for that assignment. 2) If it appears that a student has copied an assignment from published material (including Internet sites), the student will receive zero points for that assignment.
Critical Event Procedure
- In the event of a school closing due to weather or other major event that might impact class schedules, the instructor will post an announcement indicating what changes, if any, the event will have on the course schedule and due dates.
Access to institutional support services
Changes to the Syllabus
- The instructor reserves the right to make changes to this syllabus. In the event that changes become necessary, students will be notified through BConline Email and or an announcement.
Lab Safety (if applicable)
- Students must follow approved safety procedures when completing lab work.
Student Success Tips
In order to be successful in this course, you need to be organized and manage your time well so that you can complete all assignments and assessments on time. You will need to devote at least (5) hours per week to complete the learning activities required in this course. Make sure that you do not allow yourself to procrastinate, and that you communicate with the instructor or your classmates, via BConline email, if you have any questions on any course materials or need assistance completing any assignments.
