2011 Paramedic Technician SLO-student
Western Student Learning Results (Program Outcomes) for 2011 # of Grads: 1 Source: Student # of Responses: 6 Program: Paramedic Technician Outcome What did you like about this program? Yes 6 100.00% No 0 Unk 0 NA Result 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes What would you change about this program? 6 100.00% 0 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 100.00% 0 0 I don't know how it would happen, but I would like to take the registry right after class ended and not wait the whole summer. There was alot of difficulty in attaining clinical experience some times. The clinical schedules need to be set up alot faster, especially we are seeing now that the ambulance clinicals are what I feel are not being scheduled and provided to us in an acceptable period of time. Having a structured clinical schedule is good, but we need to have a schedule availible to us faster, and need to have the ability to schedule additional times. The way it was set up it was very difficult to add aditional clinical experience, even if asking Mike Foster several times to schedule you or even let you know when openings would be availible. Let students schedule their own clinicals!!!!!!!!!!! more sim lab time and more maybe spend the summer for classes as well as ambulance ride time. The program seemed kind of demanding and cramped at times. It became overwhelming being at school for 9 hours one day, and then clinicals for 8 hours the next day. Maybe classroom time could be spread out more. 0 Yes Yes Yes Monday, September 19, 2011 I liked how the program was condensed and fairly fast pace. It alows for a good introduction to paramedic and the clinical setting. I like the fact that the school implemented the accelerated paramedic program. It's more practical for people with careers. I liked the atmosphere of class. The scheduling was fine. We need more time in pharmocology and cardiac. I liked the breakout groups and moc testing. We need more sim lab time (once was not enough for the program). The program was short but thourough. It was also challenging. 0 Yes Use effective communication skills. Feedback Western Wisconsin Technical College There was effective communication, however there was a lot of drama within the class that was unecessary. The teachers could have found ways to deal with this, possibly by dividing the class up, and placing students with other ones. Comunications skills were taught well, and are put into good use in the clinical setting. Alot of the way you use these skills depends on how you aproach the clinical setting, we are taught to go in and be agressive with aproaching paitients and preceptors, and if you do this it really pays off. We have learned how to communicate with the elderly, the young, the handicapped/disabled. Without some of the points in class about communicating with them, I think we would have struggled. Page 1 of 5 Outcome Apply mathematical concepts. Yes 6 100.00% No 0 Unk 0 NA Result 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Transfer social and natural science theories into practical applications. 6 100.00% 0 0 Yes Yes Yes 6 100.00% 0 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 100.00% 0 0 Yes Yes 6 100.00% 0 0 Working together within the class was encouraged and done well. Even in class, it was a diverse group of people. We were all civil with each other, but I'm sure there were people that just didn't want to be around others. To get stuff done in class, we had to get past all the nonscence and get it done. I've never had a problem working with others. Coming into this class we did not trust ourselves or our peers. Now we have gained a new knowledge and understanding and have learned to work together. 0 Yes Monday, September 19, 2011 The teachers put us in situations in our skills practice that made us make a life or death decision for our "patient". They made us think things through and how the decision would effect the patient. Breakout groups did a great job with critical thinking I think that we are given many oportuinties and challenges that force us to think and then enact critical decisions. This program was challenging and allowed us to think outside the box on a daily basis. I am now more cautious, and better at looking at the big picture when is comes to the process of developing field diagnosis. 0 Yes Yes Use technology effectively. It was fun to be able to apply our knowledge from the classroom into situations in clinicals and also within lab. The anatomy and physiology was helpful in understanding the body/injury processes. Yes, I can take information gathered and put it to use with the knowledge I have obtained in regard to pathophysiology. There is definitly a large difference between the material taught in class to the practical application in a real life setting, however it is good to have a good basis for that back ground information. 0 Yes Demonstrate ability to value self and work ethically with others in a diverse population. More time could have been spent in Pharmacology and with drug adminsistration and mathematics. Since we learned drug doses back in the fall, maybe a refresher in the spring about calculating them again. I felt that the mathematical protion of this class was sufficient. We used the math concepts but did not use them enough to retain them I can caculate drug doses. 0 Yes Demonstrate ability to think critically. Feedback Western Wisconsin Technical College I thought it was great that we had alot of equipment at our disposal to learn from. I think we should have a general idea on how to operate equipment in the field. Page 2 of 5 Outcome Yes No Unk NA Result Yes Yes Yes Yes Make decisions that incorporate the importance of sustainability 6 100.00% 0 0 Feedback we still need to see the sim lab more. patients are our job, we need the sim lab to have the closest thing to real. I feel comftorable with most of the tech presented. My computer skills have improved because of this course. We have learned how to use all equipment effectively and to the best of our knowledge. 0 Yes Yes Yes Perform adavanced patient assessment 6 100.00% 0 0 We learned how to make decisions safely and back them up. Not quite sure what that means. In the skills practice we practiced alot on patient assessment. I don't think we ever got into neuro assessment thoroughly enough. My assessments are much better than before this program. I have a much broader knowledge of the human body as a result of this program. Yes, however, I think we could have practiced our assessments more. from the beginning of class we should have done a group assessment every morning as a class to keep the assessment fresh and consistant. This was done quite well. 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Interpret the nature and seriousness of the patient's condition. 6 100.00% 0 0 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Understand organ systems and pathopysiology pertaining to these systems. 6 100.00% 0 0 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Monday, September 19, 2011 We'll find out during ride alongs! We have learned to look at the whole picture. I now have the ability to recognize and interpret what may be happening with a patient. In our clinical rotations we saw first-hand the patients and the problems. Seeing patients is very helpful in understanding patients condition, not every patient is going to look the same. Western Wisconsin Technical College Coming into the paramedic program, I think it should be mandatory to have taken a Math class to have a basic knowledge of drug calculations, and anatomy class to have a basic understanding of the human body, and a chemistry class to understand how drugs react, as well as, the EMT basic class. my understanding of organ systems is way beyond what it was before I took this training. Yup. We had a some good classroom discussions about A&P and pathophysiology. I think A&P was very helpful in understanding the systems. General A&P would be sufficient enough. Page 3 of 5 Outcome Provide appropriate treatment procedures according to protocols while in various settings and situations. Yes 6 100.00% No 0 Unk 0 NA Result 0 Yes Yes Yes Utilize effective communication skills when working with patient's, family, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals. 6 100.00% 0 0 Feedback I have been doing this for years as an EMT. Now my scope of practice is expanded. There are different protocols, so learning the different protocols is essential. Skills were taught very well. 0 Yes Yes Yes Things like this get reviewed in class, but are learned more in the clinical setting more so than anything else. we didn't get to work on the ambulance at all during our classroom time, so we did not communicate with the family in the prehospital setting (ambulance ride time should start during classroom time, even if observation only is all we can do). I have always been pretty good at this. We were taught enough on HIPPA and confidentiality. Yes Yes Yes yup I have a lot of experience in regard to this. In our labs, we learned how to perform skills safely and effectively. Yes Yes Yes Yes We didn't go over run reports very much. We could heave learned more about proper documentation. yup PCR should have been touched on more than once. We need to practice a real call from start to finish with PCR/Run report and radio practice. Yes Yes Have a good dimeanor/presence. Respect other people. Learning about living wills was confusing and could have been more in depth Yes Yes Put the problems aside and get the job done, care for the patient. This is where working with different classmates instead of sticking to our regular groups could have come in handy. Yes I've been doing this for 8 years. Yes Operate all equipment safely, effectively and efficiently Gather, interpret and report information verbally and in writing Apply legal and ethical principles to professional behaviors. Work collaboratively with a diverse range of people Make decisions under stress. Monday, September 19, 2011 6 100.00% 6 100.00% 6 100.00% 6 100.00% 5 83.33% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16.67% 0 0 0 0 0 0 Western Wisconsin Technical College Page 4 of 5 Outcome Yes No Unk NA Result Feedback Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Establish a safe environment for patient care. Aggregate Assessment of Achievement Monday, September 19, 2011 6 100.00% 119 99.17% 0 1 0 0.83% 0 We were put in stressful situations in class and in clinicals. The mega code was a great lesson. Havn't been in very stressfull situations yet. this is common sense. Scene safety at all times. crime scene lab is a great tool for helping us understand what we need to be looking for. 0 0 Western Wisconsin Technical College Page 5 of 5
