EMER 315 EMS Risk Safety and Management

This course introduces the student to the risk management principles of an EMS agency. Students will focus on safety from the perspective of a field provider.

This course will examine risk management and safety within emergency medical services.  EMS is a dangerous field and contains a high rate of line of duty deaths and injuries.  This class will help the student target risks, threats and safety concerns and create mitigation tactics to help lessen these risks. 

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After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each Discussion. Each thread must be 300 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 150 words.   

Policy, Procedure, or Guideline Assignment

The student will write a 750-word minimum research-based paper in current APA format that focuses on risk identification and mitigation The paper must include at least 4 reference(s) in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible.  

Line of Duty Death Final Assignment

The student will write a 1,000-1,600 research-based paper in current APA format that focuses on causes of line of duty deaths in emergency medical services. The paper must include at least 5 reference(s) in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible.