Please call the Board of EMS office with questions: 785-296-7296

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• Lesson plan
• Media
• Formulary
• Task list
• Task analysis
• Check sheet for the Student Lab Manual

The question has been raised repeatedly, “Do these need to be approved by the Board of EMS?”

At this time the Board is not requiring approval. However, the Board office is suggesting that these materials be submitted to the Board office for review and approval. This is especially true for all check-off sheets as these sheets become part of the permanent record and audit trail for the transition. Whether submitted or not, all check-sheets must be maintained per the audit record requirements for the transition.

Please direct questions regarding this information to the Board office. To insure that your check sheets will meet the requirements, please submit them for review and approval tot the Board office.

Additional AEMT Requirements

The copyrighted resources posted include an explanation, lesson plan, and links to the Sedgwick County, Kansas videos that show the MACC being used:

MACC Lesson Plan
MACC User Manual
MACC Video – “No Error Found”
MACC Video – “With Error Found”

This copyrighted information is used with permission.

If you have questions about the MACC, please contact Jon Friesen at Sedgwick County Emergency Medical Services System.

Several questions have been asked regarding the AEMT curriculum.  Here’s a short explanation and process direction to use in working through these items.

Missing Check Sheets

Check sheets for Intraosseous (IO) and for Rectal Administration are not included in the curriculum.  There are task sheets for these skills.  In talking with the Kansas Board of EMS today (August 3, 2012), they stated that instructors must develop check sheets with which to assess these skills.  Since the skills are referenced in the curriculum, they must be assessed and will be checked in the event of an audit. These check sheets must be included with the AEMT Student Lab Manual.

If anyone has already developed a check sheet for these skills and would like to share it, please email it to us, and we’d be happy to share this with the rest of the AEMT Transition community.

New Medications Added to Formulary

The Kansas Board of EMS, working with the medical advisory committee (MAC) has made additional recommendations in 2012 to the medications carried by AEMTs.  These include the addition of Ondansetron and changes to the routes of administration for Lidocaine and Amiodarone.  See the table below for a current PROPOSED formulary and use description for AEMTs.  These changes are included in proposed regulation which is working through the approval process.

As with the above check sheets, in talking with the Kansas Board of EMS, in the case of added medications indications, and routes, (the addition of Ondansetron and changes to the routes of administration for Lidocaine and Amiodarone) they expect instructors to develop these course materials to be added to the AEMT course including: a lesson plan, media, formulary, task list, task analysis, and check sheet for the Student Lab Manual for each new medication. These check sheets must be included with the AEMT Student Lab Manual. They must be assessed and will be checked in the event of an audit.

If anyone has already developed the lesson plan, media, formulary, task list, task analysis, and check sheet for these skills, please email it to us, and we’d be happy to share this with the rest of the AEMT Transition community.

This list was accessed on August 2, 2012 and is available from the Board web site.
Please direct questions regarding this information to the Board office. If you have questions about whether or not your check sheets will meet the requirements, please contact the Board office.

The Board of EMS has issued a transition course checklist:
Scope of Practice Transition Course Guide

Here is a page summarizing the regulations, including links for downloading them or reading online:
February 2012 – Regulation Update

For Course Coordinators only, a link to the most current instructor and student manuals:
EMS Transition Curricula

The Board office issued two memos:
The transition requires all providers to pass written and skills tests
Changing Transition Course Dates and/or Times

Education standards for new, original courses of instruction for the new levels, EMR, EMT, and AEMT were created by Hutchinson Community College and posted by KSBEMS here.

Local services as well as many of the Kansas Community Colleges are offering transition courses.

“If we don’t find enough volunteers, we’re going to have to close. It will be a hardship for our community. I’m angry that we can’t find the resources we need.”

“It always feels like there’s a crunch to find volunteers, but they come through at the last-minute. I wish I didn’t have to worry about finding volunteers.”

Often non-profit organizations look to the corporate world for models of organization development and strategy. Yet non-profits are fundamentally different. While they have passion and vision, and deliver excellent service, the resources required differ from the business world. These resources may include charitable donations, grants, corporate sponsorships, and sometimes business revenues.

Non-profits rely on volunteers. Leading a team of volunteers is inherently different from leading paid employees. Volunteers commit their time, energy, money, and other resources because they want to make a difference, belong to a group with a common goal, and have pride in being a contributing member. Volunteers commit on their own terms. Leaders are the glue, attracting others to join and directing activities.

I have written a longer article about a 2-year study by Deloitte that looks at the characteristics of volunteers and suggests a list of questions that non-profit leaders can use to develop a strategy for leading and attracting volunteers. For more in-depth reading, I recommend Jim Collins’ monograph Good to Great for the Social Sectors and Baghai and Quigley’s As One: Individual Action and Collective Power.

There are encouraging statistics for those seeking to attract volunteers – from the overwhelming numbers of college students applying to Teach for America to the spontaneously organizing groups on the Internet such as the Linux users group, who jointly develop an operating system, and Wikipedia contributors. People envision helping their communities, learning new skills, and making a difference.

A community organizer is someone who uncovers [volunteers’] self-interest. They give [volunteers] an opportunity to work in their own self-interest and address problems in the community that they could not address by themselves.
– Jane Addams

Read Leading Volunteers originally published in the Kansas EMS Chronicle

The slides have been left in a pptx file format. You can add content to the slides.  You may NOT delete content from the slides for from the AEMT program.  If you have questions or concerns, please contact us directly.

DuoDote Kits

End Tidal Videos

Catheter Prop Idea

Medication Placebo Ideas

If you have ideas and tips to share with transition instructors, we’d be glad to post them here. Email us or leave a comment on this post.

If you are a student in the transition, you will receive your student manual from your course instructor.