Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu recommended the city participate.
“Students will be able to obtain important clinical skills that cannot be provided in any other environment,” he said.
Hasselfeld said the students will begin training with the paramedics as soon as Monroe City Council approves the partnership.
“What this will allow our students to do is to get some of their clinical requirements at the City of Monroe. When you’re becoming an EMT or a paramedic, to obtain those certifications requires a certain amount of ride time,” he said.
“The paramedic actually requires about 500 hours worth of clinical time of which a certain portion of that will be spent in the field.”
Hasselfeld said Butler Tech also has cooperating clinical contracts with other surrounding municipalities and townships.
The two most important things in the program, he said, is that students spend the proper time meeting certain criteria — whether that be in emergency and operating rooms, intensive care units or life squads.
“They also have a certain amount of procedures that have to be completed. They have to have 30 contacts where they do two or more advance life support procedures — establishing intravenous lines, administering medications both cardiac and diabetic and performing 12 electrical cardiograms in the field — on a patient,” he said.
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