Become an EMT
Offered By: University of Colorado System via Coursera
Course Description
Overview
Health care is an exciting and ever growing profession that can take you many different directions. You can apply the fundamentals you learn here about emergent patient care, stabilization, and disease processes toward becoming an EMT or further health care pursuits. In this specialization you will learn to care for stable and unstable patients before they get to a hospital, how to identify time sensitive diseases, and medical and traumatic conditions that affect both adults and pediatric patients.
Course 1 ensures you can assess a scene and prepare to provide care, understand the framework for patient assessment, history of emergency medical services, and the personal requirements to be an EMT. Course 2 addresses airway, breathing and circulation, medications and medication administration that EMTs are allowed to provide, and how to identify a patient having a stroke or diabetic emergency. Course 3 covers skills related to high performance CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, toxicology, and wilderness emergency medicine. Course 4 offers skills for trauma emergencies and Course 5 focuses pregnancy, infants and pediatrics.
Essential skills are demonstrated throughout the specialization. Finally, apply the course materials to real patient scenarios in the Capstone to help prepare you for national registry testing. For more information regarding educational requirements for licensure in U.S. states or U.S. territories see FAQ below.
Syllabus
Course 1: EMT Foundations
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will get a thorough introduction to the emergency medical services system, and ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Medical Emergencies: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Trauma Emergencies and Care
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to Trauma Emergencies and Care. In this course, you will learn about some of the mechanics ... Enroll for free.
Course 5: Emergency Care: Pregnancy, Infants, and Children
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to the final course of lectures in your quest to master EMT basics. In this course, we ... Enroll for free.
Course 6: Prepare for the EMT Certification Test
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to your final course in Become and EMT! Prepare for the National Registry exam. The ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will get a thorough introduction to the emergency medical services system, and ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Medical Emergencies: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness
- Offered by University of Colorado System. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Trauma Emergencies and Care
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to Trauma Emergencies and Care. In this course, you will learn about some of the mechanics ... Enroll for free.
Course 5: Emergency Care: Pregnancy, Infants, and Children
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to the final course of lectures in your quest to master EMT basics. In this course, we ... Enroll for free.
Course 6: Prepare for the EMT Certification Test
- Offered by University of Colorado System. Welcome to your final course in Become and EMT! Prepare for the National Registry exam. The ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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Welcome to your final course in Become and EMT! Prepare for the National Registry exam. The title for this course is a little bit misleading. We do hope that at the completion of this course that you feel more prepared to take the skills portion as well as the written portion of the national registry exam. More than anything else, however, our greatest hope is that we have given you the knowledge and tools to provide high quality patient care once you are certified as an EMT or once you achieve whatever level of patient care provider you aspire to. I think many of you have experienced in school or other training the difference between knowing the information needed to pass a test and being able to apply that information to a real life problem. We want you to be able to apply your knowledge! To accomplish this, there will be videos from prior courses to review, links to the national registry patient care checklists, and you will use these resources to complete a series of patient care scenarios that challenge you to apply what you have learned over the past 5 courses. The next couple of weeks are designed to stretch your knowledge and guide you to apply it to potentially real patient presentations. In addition, you will have the opportunity to practice peer review on the care plans that your fellow learners put together. Not only does this provide you the opportunity to see what other people would do in a similar situation but also reinforces your understanding of the material. Good luck and have fun with this last portion of the specialization!
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In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of patients for transport. By the end of this course, you will be able to: (1) Identify the signs and symptoms associated with a patient in shock, to describe the major categories of shock, to assess a patient with signs of shock and formulate a plan for treatment to stabilize the patient for transport, (2) Identify a patient in cardiac arrest and to describe the components of high performance CPR including placement of an AED, components of quality chest compressions, and options for oxygenation, (3) Identify a patient with under the influence of a drug of abuse or a toxicologic ingestion, assess a patient with a potential or known ingestion, and to formulate a plan for treatment and stabilization for transport including that of a violent patient, (4) Identify the symptoms associated with the most common environmental emergencies including hypothermia, hyperthermia, lightning strike and drowning, to assess patients with an environmental emergency and to describe initial treatment and stabilization for transportation and (5) Understanding your patient's story as well as to think critically about the complaint and symptoms associated with the gastrointestinal track, renal system, and the reproductive system.
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In this course, you will get a thorough introduction to the emergency medical services system, and learn the foundation components to how it works as a whole. You will also learn the nuts and bolts of becoming a healthcare provider, and gain some basic knowledge about the human body. By the end of the course, you will be able to 1) understand the history and components of the EMS system, 2) speak the language of medicine with basic medical terminology, as well as have an understanding of basic human anatomy, 3) understand the different types of communications and how they are specific to EMS, 4) take vital signs and master the normal from the abnormal, and 5) master personal and scene safety, and begin the process of patient assessment.
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Welcome to Trauma Emergencies and Care. In this course, you will learn about some of the mechanics and physics of trauma on the human body, and how this can cause injury. You will continue to expand your new vocabulary with medical terminology, and learn how to describe the different injuries you may see. You will also learn about the trauma system itself- and when it is important to transport patients to a trauma center. Then we will dive into specific injuries based on what part of the body may be injured- or trauma by system. There are different considerations in the trauma patients depending on both how, and where, they are injured. And of course- you will learn your standard approach to a history and physical exam of the trauma patient. Finally, you will learn about something that you hope to never encounter: mass casualty incidents, or MCI’s. These are occurrences where you may have multiple patients, and there is an organized and specific approach as a provider in these circumstances.
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Welcome to the final course of lectures in your quest to master EMT basics. In this course, we will cover some of the highest-stress patient populations: pregnant patients and kids, also known as pediatrics. To wrap up your EMT knowledge we will end this course with information about hazmat situations, extricating patients from tight spots and finally how you write a note about your patient care. You will learn to ensure it communicates what your assessment of the patient was, what interventions you performed and why you did them. You will build on your knowledge of anatomy, patient assessment and scene safety to develop an approach to these new patient populations. We will walk through the things that make pregnant patients and pediatric patients different but also what makes them the same as all the patients you care for. Prepare yourself for some noisy kids, some uncomfortable moms and hopefully a lot of fun learning new things.
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In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills to assess and stabilize certain types of patients for transport. By the end of this course, you will be able to: 1) assess a basic medical patient 2) describe general pharmacologic principles and the skills associated with medication administration, 3) explain airway physiology, the assessment of the airway and available interventions for airway management, 4) identify, assess and formulate a plan to stabilize a patient with a respiratory emergency for transport, and 5) identify, assess and formulate a plan to stabilize a patient with a cardiovascular emergency for transport. 6) describe the most common neurologic and endocrine emergencies and what you can do for them as an EMT.
Taught by
Angela Wright, MD, Arthur Pliaconis, Kathrine Lopez and Whitney Barrett, MD
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