Responding to calls from patients who require accurate pulse oximetry readings can happen often. It’s important to be prepared to do so and understand different aspects of pulse oximetry. For example, reasons you may get an erroneous reading and different parts of the body to use to get a reading from. In this course, we will review these topics and more to create a list of ten things EMS providers should know about pulse oximetry.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Baker gives this rapid-fire lecture on the best extrication tactics at motor vehicle accidents.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 120 min
To be a good leader, you must be willing to have a positive attitude, maintain your credibility, and be humble. In this course, Paul Combs invites you to learn the 12 recipes for success in a leadership role. These recipes are standards the foundation for success. As Lieutenant (ret.) Paul Combs walks you through the recipes for success, he shares key advices, stories, and his cartoons proving that if you have a passion for the fire service and follow the recipe for success, you will find success as a leader.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
This hour-long presentation will cover the meaning of command and control on today’s firegrounds. The session will provide you tools, tips, and processes that will allow the incident commander and the company officer to better interact with each other to ensure tasks have been completed and information is shared on the fireground.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 70 min
Mitchell and Shaw look at 25 modes of preperation that each firefighter should follow that will result in a successful career.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 75 min
There are several simple changes organizations can implement to create a more trans-inclusive environment. Doing so allows trans volunteers and personnel to feel more welcome to be themselves at work. This microlearning course will discuss 4 ways to make your organization more trans-inclusive.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 5 min
Did you know that a coffee nap can be an effective way to recharge? There are also a few other tips to keep in mind when taking a nap. Whether you've had a busy day or just need a quick break, this micro-learning will highlight five things to consider for a successful nap.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 5 min.
As first responders, we deal with stress day in and day out. Stress has been proven to have harmful effects if unmitigated. While stress may be part of daily life, there are many things you can do to help mitigate the effects of stress. This micro-learning will highlight nine easy ways to help manage your stress.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 5 min
Donovan gives this history lesson on the Boston (MA) Fire Department, going back through the centuries to look at the city's landscape and how the BFD made its tactical considerations.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Taking proactive action towards mental health is a proven means to combat the many mental health disorders that are common among first responders including depression, addiction, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Tragically, when not addressed, the end result of each of these can be suicide. This course will discuss methods to prevent suicide by learning its traceable causes. Rather than focusing on individual risk factors, this course will explain how creating an environment to encourage help-seeking behavior can alter an individual’s trajectory from reaching suicide.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
Arriving at the scene of an active shooter event means many things for emergency medical providers. First, it's considering the different kinds of response that must occur here to protect victims, other providers, and yourself. Second, it's identifying the need for triage for the trauma patients you will face. Third, it's providing the proper levels of care to victims. And lastly, it's ensuring you are keeping yourself safe. Understanding the whole picture when responding to an active shooter event is imperative to a successful, safe response.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
