As the Title says, I'm kind of looking into the idea, for a few of us at work, of some simple training video's for BLS level care that targets a volunteer group.
In my system, we have a Volunteer EMT division that rides along with the normal EMT/Medic crew to help them get road experience. They do it for free and are allowed to do pretty much any BLS or ALS-assist skills. The people in this group are usually fresh-from-school-cookie-cut EMT-B's with no experience other than clinical time. Basically, the videos would be a "How-To" format, with little "Hints, Tips, and Tricks" on anything from Bandaging, to Back-Boarding, to setting up Tubes for intubation.
For Example... er... Bandaging! I have found that most EMT's fresh from some of our many local EMT-B classes really don't know some of the "standard" bandage wraps. And the little things like Pressure bandaging "properly" starting distal and work up to proximal.
* That being said, I was wondering:
1. Generally how useful you think the idea of this would be for this target group?
2. Has anyone had any experience with something of the sorts?
3. If so, what are / do you think would be some successful topics?
4. Do you think this would really do any good?
5. Whatever other question you can think of to answer!
Thanks for any response if you managed to read that whole thing.
In my system, we have a Volunteer EMT division that rides along with the normal EMT/Medic crew to help them get road experience. They do it for free and are allowed to do pretty much any BLS or ALS-assist skills. The people in this group are usually fresh-from-school-cookie-cut EMT-B's with no experience other than clinical time. Basically, the videos would be a "How-To" format, with little "Hints, Tips, and Tricks" on anything from Bandaging, to Back-Boarding, to setting up Tubes for intubation.
For Example... er... Bandaging! I have found that most EMT's fresh from some of our many local EMT-B classes really don't know some of the "standard" bandage wraps. And the little things like Pressure bandaging "properly" starting distal and work up to proximal.
* That being said, I was wondering:
1. Generally how useful you think the idea of this would be for this target group?
2. Has anyone had any experience with something of the sorts?
3. If so, what are / do you think would be some successful topics?
4. Do you think this would really do any good?
5. Whatever other question you can think of to answer!
Thanks for any response if you managed to read that whole thing.
