Paramedic - Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley - Kansas City MO

Paramedic from Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley - Kansas City MO is a Campus Associate Medical Emergency degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Description Saving lives - that's the work of emergency medical technicians (EMT). They stabilize trauma victims and medically ill patients, provide life support and assure safe transportation to a medical facility. An EMT-paramedic is a person with more training who can provide advanced cardiac and trauma life support. Our program gives you training in a new state-of-the-art facility with the latest equipment. You'll get hands-on training you can put to use right away. In-hospital exposure and field internships with local EMS agencies cap off your training. We provide three ways to enter this career: Basic Emergency Medical Technician course that prepares you to take the EMT exam. Paramedic certificate that builds upon already learned skills and prepares a licensed EMT for a career as a paramedic. Paramedic associate's degree that adds general education courses for promotion into leadership positions. For the degree, you will learn to: assess patients evaluate entire body systems treat specific illnesses or injuries give intravenous injections deliver medications evaluate of heart rhythms perform advanced airway management View more details on Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Medical Emergency courses.