Emergency Medical Services Training for Healthcare Professionals and the General Public

Nature Coast offers comprehensive training in the course listed below.
Please click on the course name for dates offered and full course descriptions.

EMT Program
EVOC
EVOC Instructor
CCP, Critical Care Paramedic Course
PEPP - Pediatric Education for Prehosptial Providers
AMLS – Advanced Medical Life Support
ITLS - International Trauma Life Support
Advanced 12 Lead Course
Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS)

EMT Program
May 24th – Aug 2nd

Classes: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm-10pm.
The EMT program is designed to prepare students to provide basic life support measures as a member of an ambulance crew, at the scene of an accident, during transport to a hospital or medical facility, and in the medical facility. It will prepare students to sit for the Florida Bureau of EMS EMT Certification Exam. This unique program will enhance the quality of student learning and achievement outcomes through the use of human patient simulation training with a SimMan and SimBaby, a tool not available anywhere else for EMT students in Citrus County.
Contact: Please contact Brian Bentley for more information at: 352.249.4700 or 352.277.6678

12 Lead Interpretation Class

April 5th, 2010 10am until 4pm

Instructor: Danny Griffin

Registration Deadline is March 29th, 2010
Complete this form to register and send by mail, email or fax to Jane Bedford at Nature Coast EMS, 3876 W Country Hill Drive, Lecanto, Fl 34453, Fax# 352-249-4752, Email: JaneB@naturecoastems.org

For review for the class go to 12 Lead practice website: 12 leadecg.com

Emergency Care and Safety Institute Training Center
Nature Coast EMS is an Emergency Care and Safety Institute Training Center and offers the following online programs with skills competency by appointment:

• Adult & Pediatric CPR
• Adult and Pediatric AED
• Adult and Pediatric First Aid
• Professional Rescuer CPR
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Lifeguarding
• Lifeguarding renewal

Visit the Emergency Care and Safety Institute for more information.

American Heart Association Training Center
Nature Coast EMS is an American Heart Association Training Center and offers all of the AHA Programs including Healthcare Provider, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support Experienced Provider.

Please visit the American Heart Association website for more information.


AHA course matrix:

• HCP –Healthcare Provider
Feb 25, June 18, August 26
• ACLS – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Jan 25 ( renewal), April 15 & 16, October 7 & 8, 14 & 15(Provider course, Renewal attend 1st day)


• PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
March 22 & 23, 29 & 30, September 9 & 10 (Provider course, Renewal attend 1st day)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Experienced Provider Course
April 17 Instructor Course April 16

* SKILLS COMPETENCY FOR ONLINE ACLS, HCP, PALS, HEARTSAVER AND 1ST AID BY APPOINTMENT

Course Descriptions and Dates Offered

ITLS – International Trauma Life Support
October 12th & 13th, 2010
Advanced Stroke Life Support
October 1st, 2010
PEPP
October 25th & 26th, 2010
PALS
October 25th & 26th, 2010
EVOC
March 6th & 7th, April 17 & 18, May 1 & 2, June 11 & 12
Emergency Vehicle Operator 16 hour initial certification course required by the Florida bureau of EMS to work in Florida as an EMT or Paramedic

EVOC Instructor
Feb 17th & 18

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CCP, Critical Care Paramedic Course
February 2 - March 31st,
This course will follow the full scope of critical care paramedic education and is an educational program for paramedics and nurses who perform interfacility transports, moving very sick patients from one hospital to another for further care and treatment. Students in this education program, if recognized by their EMS employee, can have an expanded scope of practice allowing them to administer more medications than the normal EMT - Paramedic.

This Critical Care Paramedic course is presented for health care providers that routinely participate in interfacility transports involving complex medical patient, (critical care patients). The program includes instruction in all common aspects of critical care assessment and management including pathophysiology, pharmacology, 12-lead ECG interpretation, interpretation of laboratory values, interpretation of routine diagnostic images, ventilator management, aortic balloon pump management, differential diagnosis and critical thinking skills. The program will incorporate clinical rotations to allow for observation of the skills presented throughout the course.

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PEPP - Pediatric Education for Prehosptial Providers
Feb 11 & 12, May 2 & 3, May 11 & 12
Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, PEPP is an exciting curriculum designed specifically to teach prehospital professionals how to better assess and manage ill or injured children.

PEPP - represents a comprehensive source of prehospital medical information for the emergent care of infants and children to assist the student in the skills to answer these questions in the first few seconds on-scene:

1. How sick is this child?
2. How quickly do I need to act?
3. What is the child’s physiological problem?

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AMLS– Advanced Medical Life Support
Feb 9 & 10, March 4 & 5
Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) is an education program sponsored of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). The program is endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). This program is for all levels of healthcare practitioners committed to providing quality care for patients in medical crisis. AMLS is the first course that offers a "think-outside-the-box" method of assessing and managing a patient in medical crisis.

It emphasizes using scene size up, interactive group discussion on potential treatment strategies, history, and probabilities in diagnosing a patient's medical problem. AMLS implements an initial assessment-based approach that progresses to a diagnostic-based approach to develop a treatment plan for a specific medical condition.

AMLS - is a sixteen (16) hour, two-day program that consists of interactive lectures, teaching and evaluation stations. The interactive/case based lectures include the following topics: Patient Assessment, Airway Management, , Assessment of the Shock Patient, Dyspnea/Respiratory Failure, Chest Pain, altered Mental Status, and Abdominal Pain.

Teaching stations follow the associated lectures each day.

AMLS - is accredited by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS) and is recognized by the National Registry of EMTs (NREMT). Students who successfully complete the AMLS course will receive a certificate of completion that is valid for four years.

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ITLS - International Trauma Life Support
February 22 & 23, March 1 & 2
ITLS is accepted internationally as the standard training course for prehospital trauma care. It's used as a state-of-the-art continuing education course — and as an essential curriculum in many paramedic, EMT and first-responder training programs. ITLS courses combine classroom learning and hands-on skill stations. Scenario assessment stations enable you to put your learning to work in simulated trauma situations. ITLS courses are designed, managed and delivered by course directors, coordinators and instructors experienced in EMS, prehospital care and the ITLS approach.

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Advanced 12 Lead Course
March 19
This 12-Lead ECG Interpretation course takes the complex subject of electrocardiography and presents it in a simple, innovative approach that provides basic review for those with a basic understanding of the principles of electrocardiography and provides advanced information in the interpretation of 12 Lead ECG.

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Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS)
March 12, April 30, August 27
Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Emergency treatments to limit the risk of disability are available but underutilized. The ASLS course teaches you A practical stroke patient assessment tool suitable for routine use by EMS personnel & nurses.

This is a PRACTICAL, HANDS-ON, 8-HOUR course for health professionals developed by experts in stroke, emergency medicine, prehospital care, nursing, education that provides a unique neurologic assessment tool ideal for both prehospital and hospital use, it is approved by the Florida Bureau of EMS and is consistent with JCAHO stroke center criteria.

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