NAEMT - EMS Safety - Powhatan - March 3-4, 2015
NAEMT's EMS Safety course aims to promote a culture of EMS safety and help reduce the number and intensity of injuries incurred by EMS practitioners in carrying out their work. The course increases the practitioners' awareness and understanding of EMS safety standards and practices and develops their ability to effectively implement them. EMS Safety is the first national and most comprehensive education program of its kind that teaches techniques on how to best achieve safety on the job.
The curriculum covers crew resource management, emergency vehicle safety, responsibilities in scene operations, patient handling, patient, practitioner and bystander safety, and personal health. It offers an overview of current issues surrounding safety in EMS, presents and discusses case studies, builds risk assessment and decision-making skills and provides an opportunity for participants to relate their own experiences with EMS safety issues.
EMS Safety is for all EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, EMS supervisors and administrators concerned with safety. All NAEMT continuing education courses are accredited by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS). They also are recognized for recertification requirements by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT).
8 hours of VA EMS Continuing Education awarded.
**Loaner book included in registration fee. If you choice, a textbook can be purchased on the registration page.***
- Crew resource management — Adapts airline industry concept of a “sterile cockpit” to ambulance cab and patient compartments, stressing clear communications and situational awareness.
- Emergency vehicle safety — Reviews principles of defensive driving, ambulance design dangers, use of warning lights and sirens, common driving distractions, risk mitigation techniques, and the importance of securing patients, equipment and personnel.
- Responsibilities in scene operations — Addresses roadside safety, warning device use, apparatus, lighting, and high-visibility clothing, and interagency planning and cooperation, giving students the opportunity to describe how they would protect the scene in a series of simulated incidents.
- Patient handling — Covers body mechanics and safe moving of patients using proper lifting techniques and mechanical and other transfer aids, strategies to avoid common back injuries, the “EGGS” methodology, proper evaluation, planning and preparation for patients and the environment, and equipment selection and use.
- Patient, practitioner and bystander safety — Discusses crime scenes and dangerous facilities, commonly improvised weapons, handling of weapons found at the scene, techniques of verbal de-escalation and self defense, chemical and physical restraints, and incidents of violence.
- Personal health — Outlines the importance of personal health in preventing accidents and injuries, stresses unique to EMS, caring for mental health, techniques to ensure sleep despite demanding or erratic schedules, and the importance of fitness, exercise, and proper nutrition and hydration.