Key Skills and Competencies

It is essential that students practice and perfect skills using human subjects. The purpose of these practice sessions is to develop the tasks, dexterity, and tactical feel, necessary for each skill, in situations as real as possible, under the control and supervision of program instructors.

Specific skills which will be practiced in this program, and which may involve practice in or around the chest or pelvis include:

• Traction splint
• Foreign body airway obstruction
• Patient assessment/Physical Exam
• Blood pressure by auscultation
• Blood pressure by palpation
• Dressing and bandaging
• Splinting
• Auscultation of breath sounds
• Assessment of pulse and respirations
• Application of ECG electrodes
• Application of 12-lead ECG electrodes
• Supine spinal immobilization
• Seated spinal immobilization