Emergency Medical Services

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to use proper body mechanics when lifting and moving patients as well as the various methods and equipment to do so individually and in teams.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe appropriate and effective procedures for handling multiple casualty incidents including role of NIMS and ICS, MS responsibilities, purpose and procedures of different types of triage, logistics involved in staging and transport, and psychological impact of these kinds of incidents.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the proper procedure for measuring vital signs and taking a medical history for all types of patients including the physiological basis and proper operation and maintenance of associated equipment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the laws and ethics that govern EMT practice including the scope of practice for EMTs, standard of care, duties, the Good Samaritan laws, legal protections and obligations, ethical responsibilities and dilemmas advance directives, criminal and civil liability, negligence, common torts, patient rights, COBRA and EMTALA provisions as they apply to EMS, and ways to prevent legal problems on the job.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain procedures for patient access and extrication including interpretation of dispatch information, sizing up a scene to anticipate problems and needs, actions that can be used to gain access to and extricate patients in different situations, methods of stabilizing a vehicle in different situations, and procedures for caring for a patient entrapped in a vehicle or similar situation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic physics concepts and other considerations that EMTs can use to understand injury, trauma, impacts of various types of accidents, and patterns of injury.

This credential documents the essential competencies involved in managing emergency trauma including understanding the physics related to various types of accidents leading to trauma, understanding the special considerations needed for trauma care as a first responder, understanding the characteristics associated with various types of traumatic injuries, assessing a victim with various traumatic injuries and multisystem injuries, and handing a variety of patient types.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the principles of care for multisystem trauma patients including the characteristics of types of trauma centers and the "golden principles" and special considerations in trauma care.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the procedures involved in a thorough patient assessment.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the purpose, goals, and procedures for sizing up an emergency scene including use of dispatch information, determining when additional EMS services are required, procedures for entering a scene, procedures for self-protection and protecting the patient and bystanders, and methods for determining the mechanism of injury, mature of illness, and number of patients.

This credential documents the essential competencies involved in managing emergency trauma including understanding the physics related to various types of accidents leading to trauma, understanding the special considerations needed for trauma care as a first responder, understanding the characteristics associated with various types of traumatic injuries, assessing a victim with various traumatic injuries and multisystem injuries, and handing a variety of patient types.