Division Goal 1: Enhance the effectiveness and preparedness of faculty and staff through professional development activities.

Program Goal: Maintain the highest professional standards in the education of MCC EMS students.

Objectives: Full-time instructors will maintain current certifications as Nationally Registered Paramedics, ACLS Instructor, PALS Instructor, BTLS Instructor, and BCLS Instructor. This will ensure that the EMS students receive the most current research and practices performed by EMS professions as well as graduate students with ancillary certifications that employers typically have to pay the employee to receive after hiring.

Action Plan:

1. Provide the opportunities necessary to maintain continuing education requirements for re-certification.
2. When appropriate, factor professional re-certification needs into instructional schedule.

Assessment Strategy: Yearly audits for certification cards of full-time instructors.

Assessment Outcomes: All full-time and part-time instructors have had the opportunities and attended functions to recertify all professional certifications needed for instruction.

Use of Results: None

Division Goal 2: Meet training needs for expanded employment opportunities of the service area as a result of changing workforce demographics.

Program Goal: Provide courses in a manner more fitting to the type/need of current and potential EMS students.

Objectives: Purchase most current multimedia resources to enhance instruction.

Action Plan: Purchase DVD’s and VHS resources for instruction enhancement. Currently most multimedia resources are outdated and unusable in the field of Emergency Medical Care.

Assessment Strategy: Keep running library of resources.

Assessment Outcomes: Did not purchase any VHS or DVD resources for instruction due to the cancellation of the EMS Associate Degree program.

Use of Results: None

Division Goal 2: Meet training needs for expanded employment opportunities of the service area as a result of changing workforce demographics.

Program Goal: Work with Continuing Education to assist with a smooth transition from degree program to credentialing courses for EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, EMT-Paramedic.

Objectives:

1. Con Ed must have an understanding of state requirements for the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS).
2. Con Ed must ensure that state mandated paperwork is kept in a manner compliant with the NCOEMS regulation.

Action Plan:

1. Work with Con Ed to ensure the understanding of state requirements from the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS).
2. Work with Con Ed to ensure that state mandated paperwork is kept in a manner compliant with the NCOEMS.

Assessment Strategy: Use of equipment in classrooms.

Assessment Outcomes: The EMS Program Lead Instructor made numerous attempts to stress that decisions and planning were key to a smooth transition.

Use of Results: As of March 1, 2008, no decisions and planning were allowing the current EMS Lead Instructor to assist with the transition. On March 13, 2008 the EMS Program Lead Instructor distributed a letter outlining the steps that needed to be completed as well as the decision that needed to be made on obtaining a new EMS Teaching Institution number, as when the current Level II Instructor/Coordinator’s contract ends the college looses the ability to teach any EMS courses (continuing education or curriculum) until a new North Carolina Office of EMS Teaching Institution Credential is obtained which is dependent upon having a new Level II EMS Instructor/Coordinator for Montgomery Community College.

Division Goal 2: Meet training needs for expanded employment opportunities of the service area as a result of changing workforce demographics.

Program Goal: Provide courses in a manner more fitting to the type/need of current and potential EMS students.

Objectives: Use more PowerPoint lectures in the new EMS classrooms.

Action Plan: Purchase an overhead LCD projector for room 513.

Assessment Strategy: Use of equipment in classrooms.

Assessment Outcomes: Due to not accepting any new students, the EMS courses added the addition of a seminar type style of instruction where a certain portion of the class time was devoted to a more conversation style of instruction. Also, more patient scenarios were able to be used as a teaching aide.

Use of Results: None