**APPLICATION DUE Friday 2/19/2016***
Please email to sarahanne49@gmail.com by 5:00 pm
Illini EMS Training Officer Application
Before completing, please read through the Training Officer’s duties found at the
bottom of this application.
Name:
Illinois EMT License #:
CPR Certification Expiration Date:
Year in School/Affiliation with the University of Illinois:
Major if applicable:
What is your career goal:
Years you have been an IEMS member:
Are you a CPR-Instructor?
Are you an IEMS Weekly Supervisor?
Are you willing to train as a football supervisor and make yourself available for all home
football games?
Will you be available to help supervise graduation weekend?
1. Please outline your complete involvement in IEMS. Include which
events/involvement has been the most enjoyable to you.
Estimated number of patient contacts:
2. Please outline any medical experience you may have outside of IEMS whether it
is paid or volunteer. If this includes paid work in an emergency room, paid work
in a hospital, or work with a volunteer fire department or ambulance service,
please outline that information first.
Estimated number of patient contacts:
3. What new ideas do you have that would be beneficial to IEMS which you would
like to consider implementing if you were given this position?
4. Identify your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Please identify how
you plan to eliminate your biggest weakness with respect to your work as an
IEMS officer.
5. Why should you receive the Training Officer position over the other applicants
who may be equally or more qualified than yourself?
Training Officer Duties
The duties of the Training Officer are listed below. The position is very flexible and
depending on the make up of the operations department, more duties can be undertaken if
there is a need or desire. It is recommended that the Training Officer become CPR-I
certified upon being appointed to the position. The training officer handles CE’s for
EMT’s and First Responders, whether that be classes in person or emails about CE
opportunities. The Training Officer runs both Critical Skills for EMTs and CPR Member
Training Sessions. The Training Officer holds bike team training in April and again in
August if need be. The position requires becoming certified as both a weekly supervisor
and football supervisor. In order to hold the position, NIMS 100, 200, 700, and 800 must
be taken online at
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/NIMSTrainingCourses.shtm#item1. In addition,
the Training Officer should be ready to help out the operations department in whatever
way possible and assist other ops members with their duties as well.
Time Table
 February through May of appointment year
o Become CPR-I Certified
o Train as a weekly supervisor and football supervisor
o Familiarize yourself with the duties of the previous Training Officer,
office procedures, and the role of the operations department
 June through the middle of August
o Become familiar with Region 6 protocols
o If Region 6 protocols have been updated, familiarize yourself with these
protocols and update the protocol exam and critical skills test to reflect
these changes
 August
o During the week before school starts, choose 4 days to do Critical Skills
o Email all the supervisors (they are the ones who will help you run Critical
Skills) and make sure that the dates work for enough of them to help out
(usually 5 to 6 supervisors plus yourself)
o Make a events for each day at 30 minute segments over a 4 hour time
frame (6 groups)
o Once you have enough supervisors to help, send an email to the EMT and
CPR listserv
 State the dates and times, purpose of the training, and emphasize
that it is only for EMTs
 The purpose is to acquaint people to Region 6 Protocols, make sure
their skills are up to par, and for them to feel comfortable using the
equipment and protocols
 Supervisors do not have to take the Critical Skills, but will need to
either have an EMS related job or do ride time with a service
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Inform members that the session will take 3 hours and maybe
longer if they have to take the protocol exam, but that they can
retake the protocol exam as many times as possible
o The weekend before Critical Skills
 Make sure that you have enough packets for all the EMTS (Make
copies at Notes-n-Quotes on campus using the IEMS account)
 The packets include information for all the stations, they
are like check off sheets
 There are five stations: 1. Lifting and moving (make sure
you do rolling CPR) 2. Spineboarding/RTA 3. Airway 4.
Medical Legal 5. CPR and AED
 Have enough packets for the stations for each supervisor
 These packets contain everything that should be discussed
for each station
 Make enough protocol exams for all EMTs and have several
answer keys available
 The night before, talk with the education equipment officer and
procure all the equipment needed
 Airway
o O2 tanks, nasal cannula, NRB, OPA, NPA, and
combitube
o Airway dummy, BVM
 CPR
o AED, BVM, Annie
 Lifting and Moving
o Cot and stair chair
 Spineboarding
o Spineboard, CIDS, 4 straps
 Medical/legal
o Aspirin, nitro, albuterol packet, nebulizer, epi pens,
narcan
 The day of, set up stations for everything- Have the president get
room reservations for one of the buildings on the quad if possible
 Also, if someone can’t finish the stations or exam, let them
know that they can complete the session at an operations
officer’s office hours
o This includes retaking protocol exams
 Once a protocol exam is taken, it is kept on file and the
EMT never has to take another exam unless protocol
changes
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Note on the website under each EMTs profile that they
have completed critical skills and passed the protocol exam
o September
 Middle of September
 Plan a CPR Member Training
 Email supervisors and EMTs to help out once you pick a
date that works
 When you have enough help (four EMTs)
 Send out an email to the list serve and talk about the class
and what is covered, emphasize that the training looks good
when you are applying to the EMT or FR class
o If you don’t emphasize this, then you will get a poor
response
 The class usually covers CPR, lifting and moving,
superpacks and BSI/scene safety/HIPAA, spineboarding
and rolling CPR (feel free to combine these different things
into different sessions depending on your help and the
students)
 Through the football season assist the equipment officer with
equipment and any other ops member with anything they need help
with
 Bike team training
 Help get EMTs to staff football
 Make yourself available for all football games and other
operations designated events
o January
 Repeat Critical Skills steps, usually only 1 or 2 days for critical
skills this semester
 This Skills session will be considerably smaller so plan
accordingly; it’s a good idea to determine the level of interest by
emailing the EMT and CPR listservs
o February
 Hold another CPR Member Training
 More of these can be held throughout each semester if there
is interest and time
 Start training the next Training Officer once they are appointed
Continuing Education
o Send emails and make announcements on the EMT listserv about
Continuing Education sessions
 Provena has powerpoints for each month over different topics
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Classes can also be held by yourself, another officer, or another
health care provider outside of IEMS
o CE credit values
 Provena Power Points = 2 CE hours
 Teaching healthcare provider CPR courses= 4 CE hours
 Classes in science such as biology, physiology, anatomy,
psychology, sociology, chemistry, and physics taken after
receiving EMT license = 1 hour of CE per hour of credit (3 credit
class equals 3 CE hours)
 Only half of your CE hours for a license can come from
academic classes, the rest must be EMS related
 NIMS = .3 CEs a piece
 ITLS = 16 CEs
 Critical Skills= hour per hour
 Practical = hour per hour, so five hour practical equals five CEs (it
is helpful if the EMT records classes, practicals, CPR classes
taught, academic classes taken and credit worth as time progresses,
recommend they do this or else they will be running around trying
to gather all the information when they need to recertify)
 EMT class = for every hour sat in on the class, they get 1 CE
 Any others are at the discretion of the EMS Education Coordinator
at Provena who is currently Mary Butzow
(Mary.Butzow@presencehealth.org), the coordinator approves CE
hours and recertifications
NREMT Renewal
o NREMT Basic renewal requires 72 hours of CEs to renew
o A NREMT should have a NREMT ID and be able to log in to the NREMT
website (nremt.org)
o Once they log in, they go to My Certification, then to the Dashboard, and
Manage Education
o Make sure the EMT associates themselves with PREMSS
o 24 hours must be over certain subjects
 1 hr preparatory, 2 hrs airway, 3 hrs for patient assessment, 4 hours
medical/behavior, 4 hours trauma, 2 hours OB, infants, and
children, and 8 hours of electives
 This can be done by doing the powerpoints and going to these
lectures at EMT class
o 48 hours can be of anything else and classes can be repeated
o All classes, subjects, locations and time should be recorded on the
dashboard portion of the site
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o EMT’s must also have a current certification in Health Care Provider CPR
o Once they have all the hour requirements met, they should inform Mary
Butzow and she will certify that they have met the CE requirements and
practical requirements (which are met by doing Critical Skills)
o Once they have all this and submitted the application via the online
process, they pay the fee and receive a new card in two weeks
o NREMT expires every 2 years
State Renewal
o Expires every four years
o Requires 120 CE hours to recertify
o The EMT should keep a CE booklet up to date on this (found in the ops
drawer in the black filing cabinet)
o An EMT needs to do less than half of their CEs in the different categories
(i.e. cardiac)
o A site code that is contained and should be updated each year is provided
by PREMSS, this is contained in a document online and should be updated
each year
o Once 120 hours have been taken and four years met, then the EMT should
go to PREMSS and submit their booklet for renewal to the Education
Coordinator