Kansas EMS Transition

February 2012 – Transition Links

Friesen Group — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:33:13 +0000

Here are some links that may prove useful for Course Coordinators:

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.

Leading volunteers

Friesen Group — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:16:14 +0000

Cross post from Friesen Group -

“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

AEMT Update Completed

Friesen Group — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:28:13 +0000

The update of the AEMT files is complete with the addition of the PowerPoint slides to the Acrobat.com site. I/Cs and TOs who have been through the train the trainer course and who have access to the Acrobat.com site can now download the slides.

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.

Tips for transition instructors

Friesen Group — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:53:19 +0000

Here is a summary of ideas shared by transition instructors:

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.

Transition manuals

Friesen Group — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:44:58 +0000

Just a reminder to all of those who attended the train-the-trainer courses in 2010 who wish to download the newest manuals that the download site is: http://www.acrobat.com. We have added this information to the Documents and Links page too.

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

AEMT Update

Friesen Group — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:43:11 +0000

Yesterday the Board of EMS approved the updated curriculum for the AEMT. The update includes all the medications that the Medical Advisory Council (MAC) approved for use by the AEMT. What this means is that once we have packaged the new lesson plans and student manuals into the larger documents for students and instructors we will post them to the Acrobat site. In addition, we are working to update the slides for the pharmacology section. These enhancements will take a couple of weeks and we’ll have them posted and ready to go.

DuoDote Kits

Friesen Group — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:21:29 +0000

One of the frequent questions has been about how to acquire DuoDote trainers. Brian Bailey, with Leavenworth County EMS provided me with this contact information this past fall. Bryan Salapong is the account representative for Meridian Medical Technologies, the manufacturers of the kits. Thanks, Brian, for passing this along. A number of people have been able to acquire one or two DuoDote Kits without having to purchase the entire case.

DuoDote Kit Contact:

Bryan Salapong
Account Representative & Distributor Relations Commercial Pharmaceuticals MERIDIAN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES®, Inc., a subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals®, Inc. 6350 Stevens Forest Road, Suite 301, Columbia, Maryland 21046 USA │(443.259.7892│3443.259.7801|*bryan.salapong@kingpharm.com

End Tidal Videos

Friesen Group — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:16:48 +0000

Our good friends at Johnson County Med-Act produced some great videos showing both the end tidal CO2 Colorimetric device in action as well as capnography and capnometry. Take a look:

End Tidal CO2 Capnometer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQTXPj4cpo&feature=related

Capnometer/Capnograph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJk1i8Upd5s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLHrj_pFys&feature=related

There are numerous videos posted here. You’ll know them as they are posted by “ttems” Thanks to JoCo for sharing these!

Catheter Prop Idea

Friesen Group — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:02:00 +0000

This comes from Jared Hoover, a paramedic with Sedgwick County and a part-time instructor with Hutchinson Community College. Thanks for sharing, Jared!

Catheter Training Prop

“I thought I would share this with you. I created a training replica of a working foley catheter with a liter bag of NS. I spiked the bag and widened the hole with a screw driver. I then put the catheter in the bag and inflated the balloon in the port for the spike. I tried putting the balloon in the bag and resting it on top of the port but it leaked around the catheter. I added food coloring to the bag to make the saline more visible and then pulled the air out of the saline bag with a syringe and needle. I am not sure pulling the air out is necessary. It worked perfect and made for a great demonstration.”

This is a great example of classroom prop creativity. What are you using that others could benefit from? Let us know!

Transition forms

Friesen Group — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:57:56 +0000

Here is a link for forms:

To apply to teach a class, download the Single Program Provider Form.

At the end of the class technicians must download and complete the Transition Form.

KSBEMS Forms

Please contact the Board directly with questions about these forms.