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  • 4.00 Credits

    This lecture course helps students to understand the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease and to recognize and treat the associated dysrhythmias. Students will develop a broad understanding of the anatomy and physiology (review), general pathophysiology, assessment and management of emergencies in the areas of hematology, gastroenterology, toxicology and substance abuse, urology and nephrology, behavioral and psychiatric disorders, and environmental emergencies. This course completes with a special section on geriatric considerations. Prerequisites: EMS 200, EMS 205, EMS 210, and EMS 290. These courses must be successfully completed within the immediately preceding fall semester. All program entry prerequisites, without exception, must be completed by this time. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in EMS 230, EMS 220, EMS 215, and EMS 295 is required. Suggested Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132. It is recommended that students place into ENG 131 prior to attempting any EMS course. Note: All advanced-level EMS students must maintain a current CPR card for the Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This lecture course covers specialty topics such as OB/GYN, newborn resuscitation, and pediatrics. 12-Lead ECG is also covered. This includes 12-Lead ECG application and interpretation. Prerequisites: EMS 220, EMS 215, EMS 230, and EMS 295. These courses must be successfully completed within the immediately preceding winter semester. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in EMS 240, EMS 225 and EMS 299 is required. Suggested Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132. It is recommended that students place into ENG 131 prior to attempting any EMS course. Note: All-advanced level EMS students must maintain a current CPR card for the Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This competency-based course provides the paramedic student with a structured clinical experience in hospital and field environments. Students must complete designated tasks in specific topic areas. This set of clinical rotations emphasizes intravenous access and global patient management for patients in the operating room and the emergency department. Students are also exposed to a variety of cardiac diseases and dysrhythmias. Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Paramedic program. This is done via a waiting list and is managed through the EMS Program Manager in Health Careers. Note: Minimally, students must have a current NREMT certificate or a current EMT-MI state license, and have passed the following courses with a C or better: AH 100, AH 120, BIO 233 and BIO 234. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in EMS 290, EMS 200, EMS 205 and EMS 210 is required. Suggested Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132. It is recommended that students place into ENG 131 prior to attempting any EMS course. Note: All advanced-level EMS students must maintain a current CPR card for the Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This competency-based course provides the paramedic student with a structured clinical experience in the hospital and field environments. Students must complete designated tasks in specific topic areas. This set of clinical rotations emphasizes airway management skills in the operating room and in the field, global cardiac patient management in the intensive care unit, neurologic assessments and trauma patient management in a variety of clinical settings. Prerequisites: EMS 200, EMS 205, EMS 210, and EMS 290. These courses must be successfully completed within the immediately preceding fall semester. All program entry prerequisites, without exception, must be completed by this time. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in EMS 295, EMS 220, EMS 230, and EMS 115 is required. Suggested Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132. It is recommended that students place into ENG 131 prior to attempting any EMS course. Note: All advanced-level EMS students must maintain a current CPR card for the Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This competency-based course provides the paramedic student with a structured clinical experience in the hospital and field environments. Students must complete designated tasks in specific topic areas. This set of clinical rotations emphasizes a multitude of situations experienced in an urgent care facility. Students focus on pediatric and obstetrical/ gynecological patients. Students who need extended rotations to complete tasks from earlier in the year (who received permission to continue on) can do so after the requisite skills for this rotation have been met. Students who do not need extended rotations may (depending on contracts and availability) choose a "global" rotation at a specialty site. This may includeany one of the following (based on contracts and availability): flight team, intubation animal lab, burn unit, advanced morgue, human cadaver lab, geriatric facility, dialysis lab, cancer center, or psychiatric center. Prerequisites: EMS 220, EMS 215, EMS 230, and EMS 295. These courses must be successfully completed within the immediately preceding winter semester. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in EMS 299, EMS 225 and EMS 240 is required. Suggested Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132. It is recommended that students place into ENG 131 prior to attempting any EMS course. Note: All advanced-level EMS students must maintain a current CPR card for the Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association.
  • 1.00 Credits

    (1 Credit Hour) A course designed to improve reading proficiency to prepare students to pass the Nursing Entrance Test (NET) or COMPASS test required for medical fields with the aid of laboratory instructors, computer software, handouts, and other lab materials. Any student interested in preparing for these tests may enroll in laboratory courses where individualized attention is given based upon diagnostic test results. Students will spend a minimum of 17 hours a semester in the laboratory for ENG 076.
  • 3.00 Credits

    (3 Credit Hours) A developmental course to prepare non-native speakers to read at an acceptable reading level for ENG 081. This course is required for all non-native speakers whose scores on the ESL COMPASS Reading Test fall between 70-81. These students must take ENG 078 prior to or concurrently with ENG 091 or ENG 092. Laboratory work is required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A developmental course to prepare native speakers to read at an acceptable level for ENG 081. Students who are placed into ENG 079 by their ASSET/COMPASS test scores must take it before or concurrently with their first developmental writing course. Laboratory work is required. A minimum COMPASS Reading score of 25 is required to place into ENG 079.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A developmental course designed to prepare students to read at an acceptable level in ENG 131 and 132 or 135. This course is required of students who must enroll in ENG 093 and whose score on the ASSET Reading Test or the COMPASS test is below the cut-off established by the English Division. Students required to take this course must achieve the equivalent of a 10.5 Reading level to pass this course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    (3 Credit Hours) ENG 082 is a three-credit hour, generally non-transferable reading course, emphasizing reading strategies and skills that will prepare nonnative speakers for success in college level content-area and English composition courses. Students will learn how to make connections with a variety of authentic texts; practice strategies needed for critical reading; and expand their academic English vocabulary. Lab/online assignments that complement classroom activities will also be required. Students who are required to complete ENG 091or ENG 092 are strongly encouraged to take ENG 082 first or at the same time as the writing class. Prerequisites: Students must earn an ESL COMPASS reading test score that falls between 82 - 87, successfully complete ELI 05 or pass ENG 078 with a grade of satisfactory (S).
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