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
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
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
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, becoming integrated into numerous aspects of daily life, from smart assistants on your phone to smart speakers in your home, and web-based sources, like ChatGPT or Gemini. Why let the technological spread stop at the fire and EMS services? Generate photo-realistic images to share with your students that fit your specifications. Draft an incident summary or collect key points from a policy document. The possibilities of how AI can be incorporated into departments are endless; you just have to provide the right prompt.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Individuals with autism are seven times more likely to interact with first responders than the average citizen. To ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 150
When you provide first aid, it is important that you help both the victim and yourself. Take this course to find out how to avoid legal liability, prevent disease transmission and determine how and when to move victims. This course will remind you how to assess the scene and the victim as well as how to recognize cardiac incidents, perform CPR, treat choking and put victims in the recovery position. This course will also discuss bleeding control, shock and anaphylaxis, burns and electrical shock, sudden illnesses, as well as poisonings and bites. Additionally, this course will also refresh your memory for initial treatment of brain, spine, chest, abdominal, and pelvic injuries as well as bone, joint, and muscle injuries. Lastly, this course will discuss cold and heat emergencies.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 120 min
Medical emergencies can happen anywhere and at any time. Someone’s life may depend on your ability to rapidly recognize and intervene in certain cases. This course will refresh your knowledge of how to provide first aid for people in need of medical attention while you wait for further medical help to arrive. Topics will include initial actions, consent, recognizing sudden illnesses, CPR, choking, bleeding control, injury types, as well as cold and heat stress.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 120 min
The Emergency Management Institute developed the Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, ICS 200 course in collaboration with the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Programs Branch. And the United States Coast Guard (USCG). This course follows NIMS guidelines and meets the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Baseline Training requirements for ICS 200. This course is a part of the series of ICS courses designed to meet the all-hazards, all-agency NIMS ICS requirement for operational personnel. Descriptions and details about the other ICS courses in the series may be found on the Federal Emergency Management Agency website.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 240 mins
As a first-time manager, you likely feel a mixture of excitement and apprehension about your new role. What ...
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60
As a first responder, you may encounter varying types of bloodborne and airborne pathogens. It is necessary to be prepared for these circumstances so that you are better equipped to protect yourself and others and help to stop the spread of potentially dangerous pathogens. This course will discuss bloodborne and airborne pathogens, including the use of personal protective equipment and controlling exposure.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
