This Week in EMS: Chronicles of EMS Reality Series...H1N1 OSHA Guidelines...Grant-Writing Tips
There should be little doubt that the nation's emergency medical providers have a friend in a very high place.
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There should be little doubt that the nation's emergency medical providers have a friend in a very high place. Richard Serino, the newly appointed deputy administrator of FEMA, told a group of providers at a conference in New Hampshire that he fully intends to use newly acquired political clout to get more funding for EMS.
Chronicles of EMS: New Reality Series Will Portray the Real Side of EMS
Chronicles of EMS is a new reality series that will take a look at how social media and the EMS industry are coming together to provide both real-time communication and the sharing of best practices, thus demonstrating how paramedics from around the world are able to share ideas and thoughts, as well as some dreams, as to how to improve the EMS profession as whole.
AHA Launches Hands-Only CPR Campaign
The Ad Council and the American Heart Association have launched a national multimedia campaign to encourage bystanders to use Hands-Only CPR when an adult collapses and is unresponsive.
Avoiding H1N1: OSHA Offers Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel
To help protect healthcare providers and those working in medical settings, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released specific guidelines that go beyond its recommendations for the general public.
Featured Articles
EMS can be a good fit for a lot of grant programs, if you take the time to educate and approach granters appropriately. Granters are commonly interested in areas like education, health and safety, human services, and assisting children and seniors--all things that can fall within the EMS sphere.
Bad things happen to good people, and good services too. And when they do, Chief Skip Kirkwood told attendees at EMS EXPO, you can't be caught flat-footed in dealing with them. Having a plan to manage crisis situations can be crucial to a chief officer's survival.
MONOC Mobile Health Services recently won the fifth annual EMS Safety Award from the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation. The Safety Awards mark excellence in four categories: enforcement, education, engineering and EMS. MONOC's award recognized its efforts to improve the safety of its ambulance operations.
Industry Best Practices
Training Teens for Emergency Response
While schools have become much better at preparing kids for going out into the "real" world than they were a few years ago, they continue to be caught off guard when a bomb threat, shooting or natural disaster happens--unless they've participated in Teen School Emergency Response Training (Teen SERT), that is. Derived from the national Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept developed in 1994 by the Los Angeles City Fire Department, the Teen SERT program trains high-schoolers, ages 14 to 18, to act as emergency responders in the event of an incident on their campus or in the community.
Training & Resources
The knee is integral to all lower body movements and daily activities, and is easy to injure, both from trauma and from postural and repetitive strain patterns. There are three things you can do to alleviate many knee problems: stretch, massage and strength.
EMS Field Instruction: Part 3--How to Be an Effective Field Instructor
The third article in a four-part series, Elements of an Effective Field Instruction Program outlines what it takes to be an effective field instructor. Field instructors have two main jobs: to teach and to evaluate. Balancing those functions will often be a challenge, so begin as approximately 80% teacher and 20% evaluator and slowly transition throughout training to the opposite. Look for part four of this article next month.
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