Explain multiple determinants of professional roles and responsibilities of the emergency medical services system as well as emergency medical services system operations.

Exhibit complex knowledge in EMS systems, research, public health initiative, workforce safety and wellness, record keeping, quality improvement, therapeutic communication and medical/legal and ethics.

Identify operational roles and responsibilities to ensure patient, public, and personnel safety in performing emergency care and operational aspects as a pre-hospital care provider.

Develop and demonstrate complex knowledge and application of clinical behaviors and judgement as related to advanced assessment, therapeutic communications, cultural competencies, psychomotor skills, professionalism, decision-making, record keeping, patient complaints and differential diagnoses, scene safety, and leadership in performing advanced emergency medical care to critical medical and/or trauma emergent patients.

Apply complex knowledge relative to the multiple determinants of professional roles and responsibilities of the emergency medical services system as well as emergency medical services system operations.

Utilize complex knowledge of anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, pathophysiology, and lifespan development relative to advanced patient assessment.

Demonstrate complex knowledge of the principles of pharmacology, medication administration, and emergency medications interventions to safely provide advanced emergency medical care to critical medical and/or trauma emergent patients.

Develop and demonstrate complex knowledge and application of patient airway management including oxygen administration, airway adjunct application, intubation, difficult airway, respiration, and artificial ventilation.

Apply scene information to guide advanced emergency medical care to critical emergent patients by using scene size up information, patient findings related to primary and secondary assessment, patient history, using monitoring devices, and reassessment.

Demonstrate critical thinking skills to enhance the ability to analyze and develop the most effective means of caring for age-related patient management of pre-hospital advanced emergency medical care for patients.

Demonstrate complex knowledge and critical thinking skills to guide advanced emergency medical care to critical emergent patients of all age groups and patients with special challenges within the scope of practice of a Paramedic in caring for a medical patient including but not limited to neurologic emergencies, abdominal and gastrointestinal disorders, immunologic emergencies, infectious diseases, endocrine disorders, psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular emergencies, toxicological emergencies, respiratory emergencies, hematologic emergencies, genitourinary/renal emergencies, gynecological emergencies, obstetrics, non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders, diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat.

Demonstrate complex knowledge to perform age-related management of shock and resuscitation.

Demonstrate complex knowledge and critical thinking skills to guide advanced emergency medical care to critical emergent patients of all age groups and patients with special challenges within the scope of practice of a Paramedic in caring for a trauma patient including but not limited to bleeding, chest trauma, abdominal/genitourinary trauma, orthopedic trauma, soft-tissue trauma, head, face, neck, and spine trauma, nervous system trauma, special patient population trauma, environmental emergencies, and multi-system trauma.

Demonstrate complex knowledge in the care of special populations to include but not limited to gynecologic/obstetrical, neonatal care, pediatric patients, geriatric patients, and patients with special challenges.

Demonstrate and a apply complex and comprehensive knowledge of EMS operations, safety operations of the ground ambulance, lifting and moving patients, vehicle extrication, special rescue, incident management, multiple casualty incidents, air medical operations, hazardous materials awareness, and terrorism response.

Demonstrate complex knowledge and skills of the three domains (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective) to successfully apply for state licensure and employment.  

PMD 1- PMD 5

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