- Prerequisite Course(s): None
- High School Credit = 1/2 credit per semester (Postsecondary credit = 0)
- This course will be offered: every year
- Pathway (Optional): Health and Human Services
- Career Cluster Area: Health Occupations
- Source of Occupational Skills Standards: Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
- Eligibility for Nationally Recognized Skill Certificate(s)/State License? Yes, ETT Certificate
- Tech Prep: No
- Is this course brokered through another institution or agency? No
- Course Description: This is a State of Alaska Health Department course where students learn to work as a pre-hospital/first responder medical team. Certification is available if students successfully complete the exit exam.
- Content Headings/Topics
- Basic anatomy and function
- Patient assessment
- CPR
- Shock management
- Soft tissue injury
- Splinting of fractures
- Trauma assessment
- Burn management
- Oxygen therapy
- Patient transport
- Common medical emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
| Performance Standards (Learner Outcomes) | Specific Occupational Skills Standards | Alaska Reading, Writing, Math, Science Performance Standards | Alaska Content Standards | Alaska Employability Standards | Alaska Cultural Standards | All Aspects of Industry | Assessments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Describe the basic human anatomy and function of the respiratory, circulatory, muscularskeletal, nervous, digestive, and endocrine systems. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | R4.1 W4.3 | A1 H1 | A2 | E4 | 1WE4 | P/P |
| 2. Demonstrate the appropriate means of assessing a patient’s emergency condition. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | R4.1-R4.6 | M.AB S.HD | A2 | B4 | 1WE4 | Demo Test |
| 3. Properly demonstrate CPR. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | R4.1-R4.6 | M.AS S.HD | A2 | B4 C3 | 1WE8 | Demo Test |
| 4. Identify the characteristics of shock management. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | A2.4.2 W4.1 | H-l T-A,C | A2 | B4 | 1WE8 | Demo Test |
| 5. Identify the proper techniques for soft tissue injury management. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | A2.4.2 W4.2 | M.AB S-A | A2 | B4 | 1WE5 | Demo Test |
| 6. Demonstrate the method of splinting fractures. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | A2.4.2 A6.4.1 | S-D T-A | A2 | B4 | 1WE4 | Demo Test |
| 7. Identify the steps in trauma assessment. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | C1.41 W4.5 | H-A T-C | A6 | B4 | 1WE9 | Demo Test |
| 8. Demonstrate the response process for burn management. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | E1.4.1 A2-4 | S-D H-A T-C | A2 | B4 | 1WE7 | Demo Test |
| 9. Describe the proper techniques for oxygen therapy. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | R4.6 B1.41 | S.A10 M-A1-3 | A2,6 | B3 D6 | 1WE4,5 | P/P |
| 10. Demonstrate the proper technique of patient transport. | W4.3 R4.4 | B3 | A2,6 | B3 | 1WE4,5 | Demo | |
| 11. Demonstrate and apply knowledge in response to common medical emergencies. | ADHSS NREMT EMST-C | A2.4.2 | L-B S-A | A6 | C2 | 1WE7,8 | Evaluation |
| 12. Demonstrate and apply knowledge in response to environ-mental emergencies | A6.41 W4.5 | L-B S-D | A6 | B2 | 1WE7,8 | Evaluation |