Paramedic Certificate

Health Career Admissions
Program Code: G.EMT.CER

Graduation requirement: 29 credit hours

The paramedic is a health professional whose primary focus is to:

• Respond to, assess, and triage emergent, urgent, and non-urgent requests for medical care;
• Apply basic and advanced knowledge and skills necessary to determine patient physiologic, psychological, and 21 psychosocial needs;
• Administer medications;
• Interpret and use diagnostic findings to implement treatment;
• Provide complex patient care; and
• Facilitate referrals and/or access to a higher level of care when the needs of the patient exceed the capability level of the paramedic.

A paramedic often serves as a patient care team member in a hospital or other health care setting to the full extent of the paramedic’s education, certification, licensure, and credentialing. Paramedics may work in community settings where they take on additional responsibilities monitoring and evaluating the needs of at-risk patients, as well as intervening to mitigate conditions that could lead to poor outcomes.

Paramedics help educate patients and the public in the prevention and/or management of medical, health, psychological, and safety issues.

Paramedics:

• Function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, community, health, or public safety system with advanced clinical protocols and medical oversight.
• Perform interventions with the basic and advanced equipment typically found on an ambulance, including diagnostic equipment approved by an agency medical director.
• May provide specialized interfacility care during transport.
• Are an important link in the continuum of health care.

Graduates of this program are eligible to take the National Registry for Emergency Medical Technicians Paramedic examination.