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• EMGS 211: Rope and Rough Terrain Rescue

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Technical rope rescue, with extensive hands-on training; proficiency in the fundamental techniques used in technical rope rescue; search, rappelling, haul systems, and lowering systems. Students will be required to carry and maintain accident and health insurance and/or workman's compensation and sign a waiver of liability.
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• EMGS 216: Emergency Fiscal Administration

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  The course will examine the techniques and operations of fiscal administration as it relates to the public sector with an emphasis on emergency services and public safety. Subject matter will include public funding, spending, budgeting, risk management, and grant writing. . Information and procedures will be introduced and practiced to allow students to complete a functioning budget, as well as develop future budget projections and funding scenarios. Offered fall semester only.
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• EMGS 217: Public Information and Relations

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course will provide an effective way to manage public information at an incident or event, regardless of the size and complexity of the situation or the number of entities involved. Emphasis is placed on understanding the perspective of media personnel arriving on the scene. Students will learn how to prepare for media arrival along with agency interface. Presentation skills that afford concise and accurate information distribution will be discussed and practiced. Offered spring semester only.
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• EMGS 218: Incident Command and Management

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course is a collection of FEMA course that comprise IS 100: Introduction to Incident Command System; IS 200: ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents; IS 300; IS 700 National Incident Management System an Introduction; and IS 800: National Response Framework an Introduction. Through an interrelated progression, the student will be exposed to the comprehensive approach of the National Incident Management System. Offered spring semester only.
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• EMGS 219: Regulatory Compliance

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Provisions of the regulatory agencies comprising Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Transportation (DOT) as well as state agencies with similar responsibilities require that entities engaged in emergency response provide awareness and adequate training to ensure compliance with a multitude of regulations. This course is an overview of regulatory requirements along with the regulations that are pertinent to the response community. Offered spring semester only.
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• EMGS 220: Methods of EMS Tactical Response

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course provides education and training designed to decrease deaths in tactical situations while focusing on managing trauma in the civilian tactical or hazardous environments such as mass casualty, active shooter, hazardous materials, and other incidents outside the normal operating conditions of most emergency medical services (EMS) agencies. Prerequisite:    EMGS 115
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• EMGS 221: Emergency Service Management

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course introduces the basic concepts of management theory as applied to various operations specifically related to emergency service organizations. Topics include historical foundations, administration, management, leadership, finance and managing change. Emphasis is placed on aspects of human resources within a context of education and training to achieve critical outcomes. Health and safety responsibilities within regulatory compliance parameters are discussed as are all pertinent laws and regulations that directly impact emergency service organizations. Ethics and public policy conclude the topical discussions to provide awareness for those who are managers or administrators of emergency service organizations.
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• EMGS 231: Law for Emergency Services

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course will discuss the legal aspects of emergency service organizations to include; arson law, legal rights and responsibilities of emergency services providers, their officers and related court procedures. Students will learn about specific laws and legal procedures as they relate to both criminal and civil topics and their subsequent relationship to the emergency services community.
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• EMGS 235: Security Management

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course provides essential introductory information as it relates to basic security management principles and practices. Discussion provides managerial awareness within the variety of challenges associated with the provision of adequate security measures. Subjects and topics covered will allow students to consider managerial aspects associated with security practices that involve prevention, response, risk assessment, insurance and liability, workplace violence and inappropriate activities of others associated with negative outcomes. Additional discussion includes critical thinking concepts that will provide an operational competency to mitigate or respond to actions and conditions associated with threats, acts of terror, disasters or catastrophes. Focus within the context of laws, regulations and interfacing with law enforcement will offer insight to the comprehensive topic of security management.
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• EMGS 255: First Responder Training

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  For police, fire, and rescue personnel responding to the scene of injury or illness; procedures used to initiate treatment while awaiting arrival of a higher level of care includes but not limited to CPR, shock and bleeding, and patient survey. Students will be required to carry and maintain accident and health insurance and/or workman's compensation and sign a waiver of liability.
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