Hello EMTLife!
I was just recently offered a position out of a pool about 50 applicants to be a EMT Skills Instructor at a local university. I am really excited. Soon, I will put in my resignation for my local ambulance company (though I kind of want to finish my year there. . 2 more months). The application and interview process were excruciating when it came to skills presentations, sample curriculum & agendas, and Q & A. But I feel very privileged to have been offered this position, as I teach at a church on the side and am also a workshop facilitator and tutor for a high school and also at my university campus.
The nature of my job includes doing presentations and didactic lectures on various skills EMT-Basics by national standards should know (i.e. splinting, CPR, AED, etc.) My orientation is in a couple of weeks. . and it's about 20 hours, which also includes certification as a BLS Instructor. The pay is about 22 dollars/hour. . way more than what I make now.
One nature of the job though intimidates me. .
Along with teaching EMT students, I will also be asked to re-certify health care providers in BLS (a portion of my job). Some of these students will be physicians, medical students, nursing students, etc. that need to be re-certified by an agency? I've always just worked with college/high school students when it came to presentations, lectures, etc. But to work with people who have years of education on me. . it's really intimidating. Though I am confident in my abilities as an instructor, I keep imagining being called out for some reason by like a graduate student saying I'm doing this wrong. But I know I have to maintain my calm and ensure the atmosphere of the class is still a educational environment and not some 2 way exchange. Any tips on overcoming this small insecurity?
If any of you have any questions. . I'm definitely free to answer them via reply or PM. I hope you understand I may try to be discrete about specifics on an online forum.
Sincerely,
Michael
P.S. Though this job is better pay and better hours. . I can't help but feel kind of sad I am leaving the field. . and being on the rig and tending to patients. . but now I am in a educational position - and it's much different. Sigh. But I know I can't always be in my comfort zone, right?
I was just recently offered a position out of a pool about 50 applicants to be a EMT Skills Instructor at a local university. I am really excited. Soon, I will put in my resignation for my local ambulance company (though I kind of want to finish my year there. . 2 more months). The application and interview process were excruciating when it came to skills presentations, sample curriculum & agendas, and Q & A. But I feel very privileged to have been offered this position, as I teach at a church on the side and am also a workshop facilitator and tutor for a high school and also at my university campus.
The nature of my job includes doing presentations and didactic lectures on various skills EMT-Basics by national standards should know (i.e. splinting, CPR, AED, etc.) My orientation is in a couple of weeks. . and it's about 20 hours, which also includes certification as a BLS Instructor. The pay is about 22 dollars/hour. . way more than what I make now.
One nature of the job though intimidates me. .
Along with teaching EMT students, I will also be asked to re-certify health care providers in BLS (a portion of my job). Some of these students will be physicians, medical students, nursing students, etc. that need to be re-certified by an agency? I've always just worked with college/high school students when it came to presentations, lectures, etc. But to work with people who have years of education on me. . it's really intimidating. Though I am confident in my abilities as an instructor, I keep imagining being called out for some reason by like a graduate student saying I'm doing this wrong. But I know I have to maintain my calm and ensure the atmosphere of the class is still a educational environment and not some 2 way exchange. Any tips on overcoming this small insecurity?
If any of you have any questions. . I'm definitely free to answer them via reply or PM. I hope you understand I may try to be discrete about specifics on an online forum.
Sincerely,
Michael
P.S. Though this job is better pay and better hours. . I can't help but feel kind of sad I am leaving the field. . and being on the rig and tending to patients. . but now I am in a educational position - and it's much different. Sigh. But I know I can't always be in my comfort zone, right?