To prepare competent entry-level paramedics in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills) and affective (behavior) learning domains with or without exit points at the Advanced Emergency Medical Technician and/or Emergency Medical Technician, and/or Emergency Medical Responder levels. 

Chemeketa’s EMS Degree with a paramedic focus is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP).

Program Outcomes

Students completing this degree should be able to satisfy the following outcomes:

1. Perform complete and accurate patient assessments in a variety of settings, including laboratory and the clinical setting with hospital patients.
2. Assess and treat appropriately a wide variety of airway and ventilation problems, in both the laboratory and clinical settings.
3. Assess the need for and initiate intravenous therapy in both the laboratory and clinical settings.
4. Differentiate between and among a wide variety of respiratory ailments, cardiac patient presentations, neurological patient presentations, behavioral patient assessments, acute abdominal complaints, special populations, trauma and interpersonal communication and apply appropriate interventions, both in the laboratory and clinical settings.
5. Identify and interpret ECG rhythms and demonstrate appropriate treatment modalities.
6. Determine appropriate medical therapies, including pharmacology, based on patient assessment, both simulated and actual patients and calculate drug dosages and administer medications.

You may earn an associate applied science degree by successfully completing the required 94 credit hours with a grade of “C” or better in all courses.

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