ES 295 - Emergency Services Wellness

3 Credit(s)

Course Description: Provides students with the necessary health and wellness foundation needed prior to entering the emergency services fields of firefighting, paramedicine or law enforcement. Students receive an overview of the key topics that promote a life of health and wellness. Students are given the opportunity to assess their current lifestyles and their relationships to wellness, physical fitness, nutrition, and risk for illness/disease. With appropriate participation and study, students will receive a firm understanding of community health issues, and the relationship of lifestyle to health and longevity so as to plan realistic short- and long-term goals for their health.

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate an understanding of the health and wellness trends in the fire service and other emergency service professions.
CLO#2: Describe “healthy emergency workers;” exploring the concepts of wellness and disease prevention.
CLO#3: Evaluate one’s own current state of general health and wellness, risk, and personal safety in the emergency services professions.
CLO#4: Research and present the effects of psychosomatic and spiritual health on the human body systems. (ILO: Information Literacy)

ACTI Code and Course Type
210 Career / Tech Preparatory

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (60) and a standard RCC delivery of (66) lecture/lab hours per term, not to exceed (72) hours per term.