Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

This course prepares students for National Registry Certification.  An EMT 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 knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care and medical transportation to/from an emergency or health care facility. Depending on patient’s needs and/or system resources, EMTs are sometimes the highest level of care patients will receive during ambulance transport.

An EMT is often paired with higher levels of personnel as part of an ambulance crew or other responding group.  With proper supervision, an EMT may serve as a patient care team member in a hospital or health care setting to the full extent of the EMT’s education, certification, licensure, and credentialing. In a community setting, an EMT might visit patients at home and make observations reported to a higher-level authority to help manage a patient’s care. When practicing in less populated areas, EMTs may have low call volume coupled with being the only care personnel during prolonged transports. EMTs may provide minimal supervision of lower-level personnel. EMTs can be the first to arrive on scene; they are expected to quickly assess patient conditions, provide stabilizing measures, and request additional resources, as needed.

The course consists of online and in-person classroom instruction, psychomotor skill training, clinical observation, and training in an ambulance setting.

Course completion provides eligibility to participate in the NREMT certification process by preparing EMT’s who are competent in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains to enter the profession.

ELIGIBILITY ADVISORY

To participate in this course, you must be over 18 years old: · EMT students under age 18 may be allowed to begin the EMT course with parental approval and may not participate in hospital clinicals, field experiences or final testing until after they reach 18 years of age. Minor applicants are considered on a case-by-case basis by the program director and/or medical director.

and have:

· High school diploma or GED.

· Valid driver’s license or state issued photo ID.

· Personal Health Insurance

· Clean Background check and 11 panel drug screen

· Clear Physical and meet the Technical Requirements

· Computer with reliable internet access, email, and printer for homework.

· Course Participation and Clinical Clearance Co-Requisites

If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to contact us. virginia.wilson@kcmo.org