NAEMT’s EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides participants with a forum to share their own experiences. Critical thinking stations help build participants’ risk assessment and decision-making skills.
| Participants are taught: | |
| - | To identify and remove the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress. |
| - | Practical strategies that they can apply in the field, from situational awareness to defensive driving to verbal deflection. |
| - | How to strengthen their resiliency skills in order to combat both chronic and critical incident stress. |
| Topics covered include: | |
| - | Applying crew resource management in EMS. |
| - | Utilizing situational awareness and defensive driving for safe emergency vehicle operations. |
| - | Employing multi-agency pre-planning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices at roadside incidents. |
| - | Utilizing lift assist teams, lifting and moving equipment, and behavioral controls to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from injury. |
| - | Employing situational awareness to continually assess for the potential of violence on the scene and verbal and physical techniques to deescalate potential threats. |
| - | Practicing infection and contagion control to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from emerging threats. |
| - | Strengthening resiliency skills to help EMS practitioners cope with daily and critical incident stress. |
| - | Ensuring personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field through optimal personal health. |
Course Format/Target Audience:
EMS Safety is offered as an 8-hour classroom course and is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators.
Certification:
Students who successfully complete the course receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card good for 4 years.
Outcome: Certification from NAEMT
8 CPC Education Hours.
Course Fees:
| €185.00 | per person |
| Includes: | Course |
| Course Manual | |
| Light Lunch on Course Days | |
| Full Certification (On successful completion) |
How to apply: For further information please e-mail training@medicall.ie or phone (01) 4 966 933 - Option 2 or click on Book a Course.