**APPLICATION DUE Friday 2/19/2016***

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Illini EMS Training Officer Application

Before completing, please read through the Training Officer’s duties found at the bottom of this application.

Name:

Illinois EMT License #:

CPR Certification Expiration Date:

Year in School/Affiliation with the University of Illinois:

Major if applicable:

What is your career goal:

Years you have been an IEMS member:

Are you a CPR-Instructor?

Are you an IEMS Weekly Supervisor?

Are you willing to train as a football supervisor and make yourself available for all home football games?

Will you be available to help supervise graduation weekend?

  1. Please outline your complete involvement in IEMS. Include which events/involvement has been the most enjoyable to you.

Estimated number of patient contacts:

  1. Please outline any medical experience you may have outside of IEMS whether it is paid or volunteer. If this includes paid work in an emergency room, paid work in a hospital, or work with a volunteer fire department or ambulance service, please outline that information first.

Estimated number of patient contacts:

  1. What new ideas do you have that would be beneficial to IEMS which you would like to consider implementing if you were given this position?
  1. Identify your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Please identify how you plan to eliminate your biggest weakness with respect to your work as an IEMS officer.
  1. Why should you receive the Training Officer position over the other applicants who may be equally or more qualified than yourself?

Training Officer Duties

The duties of the Training Officer are listed below. The position is very flexible and depending on the make up of the operations department, more duties can be undertaken if there is a need or desire. It is recommended that the Training Officer become CPR-I certified upon being appointed to the position. The training officer handles CE’s for EMT’s and First Responders, whether that be classes in person or emails about CE opportunities. The Training Officer runs both Critical Skills for EMTs and CPR Member Training Sessions. The Training Officer holds bike team training in April and again in August if need be. The position requires becoming certified as both a weekly supervisor and football supervisor. In order to hold the position, NIMS 100, 200, 700, and 800 must be taken online at In addition, the Training Officer should be ready to help out the operations department in whatever way possible and assist other ops members with their duties as well.

Time Table

  • February through May of appointment year
  • Become CPR-I Certified
  • Train as a weekly supervisor and football supervisor
  • Familiarize yourself with the duties of the previous Training Officer, office procedures, and the role of the operations department
  • June through the middle of August
  • Become familiar with Region 6 protocols
  • If Region 6 protocols have been updated, familiarize yourself with these protocols and update the protocol exam and critical skills test to reflect these changes
  • August
  • During the week before school starts, choose 4 days to do Critical Skills
  • Email all the supervisors (they are the ones who will help you run Critical Skills) and make sure that the dates work for enough of them to help out (usually 5 to 6 supervisors plus yourself)
  • Make a events for each day at 30 minute segments over a 4 hour time frame (6 groups)
  • Once you have enough supervisors to help, send an email to the EMT and CPR listserv
  • State the dates and times, purpose of the training, and emphasize that it is only for EMTs
  • The purpose is to acquaint people to Region 6 Protocols, make sure their skills are up to par, and for them to feel comfortable using the equipment and protocols
  • Supervisors do not have to take the Critical Skills, but will need to either have an EMS related job or do ride time with a service
  • Inform members that the session will take 3 hours and maybe longer if they have to take the protocol exam, but that they can retake the protocol exam as many times as possible
  • The weekend before Critical Skills
  • Make sure that you have enough packets for all the EMTS (Make copies at Notes-n-Quotes on campus using the IEMS account)
  • The packets include information for all the stations, they are like check off sheets
  • There are five stations: 1. Lifting and moving (make sure you do rolling CPR) 2. Spineboarding/RTA 3. Airway 4. Medical Legal 5. CPR and AED
  • Have enough packets for the stations for each supervisor
  • These packets contain everything that should be discussed for each station
  • Make enough protocol exams for all EMTs and have several answer keys available
  • The night before, talk with the education equipment officer and procure all the equipment needed
  • Airway
  • O2 tanks, nasal cannula, NRB, OPA, NPA, and combitube
  • Airway dummy, BVM
  • CPR
  • AED, BVM, Annie
  • Lifting and Moving
  • Cot and stair chair
  • Spineboarding
  • Spineboard, CIDS, 4 straps
  • Medical/legal
  • Aspirin, nitro, albuterol packet, nebulizer, epi pens, narcan
  • The day of, set up stations for everything- Have the president get room reservations for one of the buildings on the quad if possible
  • Also, if someone can’t finish the stations or exam, let them know that they can complete the session at an operations officer’s office hours
  • This includes retaking protocol exams
  • Once a protocol exam is taken, it is kept on file and the EMT never has to take another exam unless protocol changes
  • Note on the website under each EMTs profile that they have completed critical skills and passed the protocol exam
  • September
  • Middle of September
  • Plan a CPR Member Training
  • Email supervisors and EMTs to help out once you pick a date that works
  • When you have enough help (four EMTs)
  • Send out an email to the list serve and talk about the class and what is covered, emphasize that the training looks good when you are applying to the EMT or FR class
  • If you don’t emphasize this, then you will get a poor response
  • The class usually covers CPR, lifting and moving, superpacks and BSI/scene safety/HIPAA, spineboarding and rolling CPR (feel free to combine these different things into different sessions depending on your help and the students)
  • Through the football season assist the equipment officer with equipment and any other ops member with anything they need help with
  • Bike team training
  • Help get EMTs to staff football
  • Make yourself available for all football games and other operations designated events
  • January
  • Repeat Critical Skills steps, usually only 1 or 2 days for critical skills this semester
  • This Skills session will be considerably smaller so plan accordingly; it’s a good idea to determine the level of interest by emailing the EMT and CPR listservs
  • February
  • Hold another CPR Member Training
  • More of these can be held throughout each semester if there is interest and time
  • Start training the next Training Officer once they are appointed
  • Continuing Education
  • Send emails and make announcements on the EMT listserv about Continuing Education sessions
  • Provena has powerpoints for each month over different topics
  • Classes can also be held by yourself, another officer, or another health care provider outside of IEMS
  • CE credit values
  • Provena Power Points= 2 CE hours
  • Teaching healthcare provider CPR courses= 4 CE hours
  • Classes in science such as biology, physiology, anatomy, psychology, sociology, chemistry, and physics taken after receiving EMT license= 1 hour of CE per hour of credit (3 credit class equals 3 CE hours)
  • Only half of your CE hours for a license can come from academic classes, the rest must be EMS related
  • NIMS= .3 CEs a piece
  • ITLS= 16 CEs
  • Critical Skills= hour per hour
  • Practical= hour per hour, so five hour practical equals five CEs (it is helpful if the EMT records classes, practicals, CPR classes taught, academic classes taken and credit worth as time progresses, recommend they do this or else they will be running around trying to gather all the information when they need to recertify)
  • EMT class= for every hour sat in on the class, they get 1 CE
  • Any others are at the discretion of the EMS Education Coordinator at Provena who is currently Mary Butzow (), the coordinator approves CE hours and recertifications
  • NREMT Renewal
  • NREMT Basic renewal requires 72 hours of CEs to renew
  • A NREMT should have a NREMT ID and be able to log in to the NREMT website (nremt.org)
  • Once they log in, they go to My Certification, then to the Dashboard, and Manage Education
  • Make sure the EMT associates themselves with PREMSS
  • 24 hours must be over certain subjects
  • 1 hr preparatory, 2 hrs airway, 3 hrs for patient assessment, 4 hours medical/behavior, 4 hours trauma, 2 hours OB, infants, and children, and 8 hours of electives
  • This can be done by doing the powerpoints and going to these lectures at EMT class
  • 48 hours can be of anything else and classes can be repeated
  • All classes, subjects, locations and time should be recorded on the dashboard portion of the site
  • EMT’s must also have a current certification in Health Care Provider CPR
  • Once they have all the hour requirements met, they should inform Mary Butzow and she will certify that they have met the CE requirements and practical requirements (which are met by doing Critical Skills)
  • Once they have all this and submitted the application via the online process, they pay the fee and receive a new card in two weeks
  • NREMT expires every 2 years
  • State Renewal
  • Expires every four years
  • Requires 120 CE hours to recertify
  • The EMT should keep a CE booklet up to date on this (found in the ops drawer in the black filing cabinet)
  • An EMT needs to do less than half of their CEs in the different categories (i.e. cardiac)
  • A site code that is contained and should be updated each year is provided by PREMSS, this is contained in a document online and should be updated each year
  • Once 120 hours have been taken and four years met, then the EMT should go to PREMSS and submit their booklet for renewal to the Education Coordinator