Cultural Competency: Understanding Healthcare Hurdles on US Tribal Reservations (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

This course is the summation of research for a Masters in Education. It will be an interactive workshop exploring the leading health threats faced by people living on reservations and how our preconceived notions of these conditions may ultimately hinder the care we provide. This workshop is designed to help providers understand how challenges faced by different communities and the root causes of their health issues must be understood in order for us to provide effective holistic care.

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Recognizing and Reporting Elder Abuse for First Responders (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

This training provides an overview of abuse, neglect and exploitation laws in NH and the mandate to report to adult protective services. Learn what to look for, and how to document and testify to what you observed. Real case examples will be shared to enhance the learning experience. • Role of EMS in adult protection matters • Defining elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation • Statistics • Relevant statues • How to respond to a suspected case

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Trauma Informed First Responder Training (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Description: In this 4-hour Trauma-Informed First Responder training, participants will be provided with an introduction to trauma-responsive systems and learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how early childhood trauma impacts brain development and future health outcomes. The course will also explore how policing and other first responder professions are impacted by secondary traumatic stress and how to implement trauma-responsive practices into your work with children and families. Objectives: 1. Understand the impact trauma has on the developing child and family. 2. Understand the first responder’s role in supporting children and families who have experienced trauma. 3. Explore fears and concerns about addressing trauma in your job role. 4. Explore strategies to support trauma-informed work with children and victims of domestic and/or sexual violence, substance misuse, etc. 5. Build understanding of how to navigate relationships with trauma-exposed children and families. 6. Increase awareness of available services/resources for first responders, children, and families. 7. Increase positive interactions with families.

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Fundamental Critical Care Support (Littleton)

Littleton Regional Hospital 600 Saint Johnsbury Rd., Littleton, NH, United States

Equips healthcare professionals with the tools needed to provide bedside care for patients who are or may become critically ill. The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course combines expert-developed learning with interactive skill stations to provide non-intensivists and healthcare professionals with the realistic training they need to manage critically ill patients for the first 24 hours or until an appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged. The course concentrates on adult critical care. Lectures: • Recognition and Assessment of the Seriously Ill Patient • Airway Management • Cardiopulmonary/Cerebral Resuscitation • Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure • Mechanical Ventilation I • Mechanical Ventilation II • Monitoring Oxygen Balance and Acid-Base Status • Diagnosis and Management of Shock • Neurologic Support • Basic Trauma and Burn Support • Acute Coronary Syndromes • Life-Threatening Infections: Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Therapy Selection • Management of Life-Threatening Electrolyte and Metabolic Disturbances • Special Considerations Skill Stations: • Mechanical Ventilation I • Mechanical Ventilation II • Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation • Integrated Scenario(s)

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Unpacking the EMS Education Standards (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) course combines expert-developed lectures with interactive skill stations to train non-intensivists and other healthcare professionals to recognize critical illness and initiate care for the critically ill pediatric patient. The course addresses fundamental management principles for the first 24 hours of post-resuscitation management of the critically ill pediatric patient until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged and is recommended for any healthcare professional who may encounter a critically ill or injured pediatric patient. Lectures: • Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation • Cardiovascular Evaluation and Pediatric Shock • Fluids, Electrolytes, and Metabolic Disorders • Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies • Postoperative Management • Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Blockade Skills Stations: • Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction • Mechanical Ventilation • Pediatric Transport • Sedation • Radiology/Invasive Devices • Advanced Integration Scenarios

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Unpacking the EMS Education Standards-Virtual

Virtual (no location)

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980 .

Recognizing and Reporting Elder Abuse for First Responders

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Presented by the NH Office of the Attorney General, this training provides an overview of abuse, neglect and exploitation laws in NH and the mandate to report to adult protective services. Learn what to look for, and how to document and testify to what you observed. Real case examples will be shared to enhance the learning experience.

Asthma Care for EMS (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

  This continuing education will provide a systemic review of asthma in both the adult and pediatric populations. Specific topic areas covered include prevalence/trends incidence of asthma in NH, airway anatomy, pathophysiology of asthma, identification of asthma in both the EMS and formal settings, EMS management of asthma and long-term management of asthma. Objectives • Describe the current and projected burden of asthma in New Hampshire. • Describe the general anatomy of the respiratory system. • Describe the pathophysiology of asthma. • Describe the diagnosis and management of chronic asthma. • Describe the identification and management of asthma in the pre-hospital environment.

Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care

Cheshire Medical Center New Hampshire, United States

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) course combines expert-developed lectures with interactive skill stations to train non-intensivists and other healthcare professionals to recognize critical illness and initiate care for the critically ill pediatric patient. The course addresses fundamental management principles for the first 24 hours of post-resuscitation management of the critically ill pediatric patient until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged and is recommended for any healthcare professional who may encounter a critically ill or injured pediatric patient. Lectures: • Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation • Cardiovascular Evaluation and Pediatric Shock • Fluids, Electrolytes, and Metabolic Disorders • Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies • Postoperative Management • Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Blockade Skills Stations: • Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction • Mechanical Ventilation • Pediatric Transport • Sedation • Radiology/Invasive Devices • Advanced Integration Scenarios

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Engaging the Affective Domain (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Engaging the Affective Domain-Virtual

Virtual (no location)

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Asthma Care for EMS

Virtual Event Virtual Event

  This continuing education will provide a systemic review of asthma in both the adult and pediatric populations. Specific topic areas covered include prevalence/trends incidence of asthma in NH, airway anatomy, pathophysiology of asthma, identification of asthma in both the EMS and formal settings, EMS management of asthma and long-term management of asthma. Objectives • Describe the current and projected burden of asthma in New Hampshire. • Describe the general anatomy of the respiratory system. • Describe the pathophysiology of asthma. • Describe the diagnosis and management of chronic asthma. • Describe the identification and management of asthma in the pre-hospital environment.

Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

WAIT LIST ONLY The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics (FCCS: OB) course combines expert-developed presentations with interactive skill stations to build healthcare professionals' confidence in providing maternal/fetal critical care to improve patient outcomes. Lectures: • Physiologic Changes During Pregnancy • Airway Management in the Pregnant Patient • Hemodynamic Monitoring • Preeclampsia/Eclampsia • Sepsis in Pregnancy • Thromboembolic Disease and Pregnancy • Obstetric Hemorrhage • Maternal Mortality and Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy • Fetal Assessment • Nonobstetric Surgical Emergencies • Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury • Management of Delivery and Newborn • Transport of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient • Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy • Trauma in Pregnancy • Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy • Neurocritical Care in Pregnancy Skills Stations: • Postpartum Hemorrhage • Mechanical Ventilation in Pregnancy • Delivery and Neonatal Resuscitation • Trauma in Pregnancy • Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Pregnancy • Management of Preeclampsia/Eclampsia

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FP-C, CCP-C, & CFRN Advanced Practice Update and Critical Care Review (Bethlehem)

Raymond S. Burton Training Facility 80 Ray Burton Drive, Bethlehem, NH, United States

This review course will encompass two days of test taking strategy, and periodic knowledge assessment sessions. This course has been reviewed and approved as an IBSC review course for initial FP-C & CCP-C certification, and continuing education via in person, and online delivery methodology. This course has been designed to meet or exceed the recommendations for material review by the certifying bodies that confer the FP-C, CCP-C, and CFRN® advanced certifications. Course attendance prepares you to understand your knowledge strengths and weaknesses to guide final preparations for certification exam success and/or satisfy advanced recertification and continuing education requirements. This activity was approved by the Emergency Nurses Association. The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). All Paramedic CE hours are awarded through the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE).

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FP-C, CCP-C, & CFRN Advanced Practice Update and Critical Care Review (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

This review course will encompass two days of test taking strategy, and periodic knowledge assessment sessions. This course has been reviewed and approved as an IBSC review course for initial FP-C & CCP-C certification, and continuing education via in person, and online delivery methodology. This course has been designed to meet or exceed the recommendations for material review by the certifying bodies that confer the FP-C, CCP-C, and CFRN® advanced certifications. Course attendance prepares you to understand your knowledge strengths and weaknesses to guide final preparations for certification exam success and/or satisfy advanced recertification and continuing education requirements. This activity was approved by the Emergency Nurses Association. The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). All Paramedic CE hours are awarded through the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE).

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Creepy Crawlies & Things with Wings (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

A refresher on New England and New Hampshire biting and stinging insects, insect-borne illnesses, reptiles, and rabid animal bites. We will discuss snakes, snake bites, animal bites, and rabies as well as bed bugs and venomous spiders. Data will be presented with a discussion around Lyme disease and Triple E and well as biting animals and reptiles. We will review signs and symptoms of venomous bites and poisonings. We will cringe at cockroaches and learn more about ladybugs. Finally, we will talk about common bee stings and allergies with a review of the State of New Hampshire Patient Care Protocols in treating these potentially life-threatening incidents.

Creepy Crawlies & Things with Wings

Virtual Event Virtual Event

A refresher on New England and New Hampshire biting and stinging insects, insect-borne illnesses, reptiles, and rabid animal bites. We will discuss snakes, snake bites, animal bites, and rabies as well as bed bugs and venomous spiders. Data will be presented with a discussion around Lyme disease and Triple E and well as biting animals and reptiles. We will review signs and symptoms of venomous bites and poisonings. We will cringe at cockroaches and learn more about ladybugs. Finally, we will talk about common bee stings and allergies with a review of the State of New Hampshire Patient Care Protocols in treating these potentially life-threatening incidents.

Sleep Hygiene (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Understanding the effects of sleep deprivation and learning the importance of sleep cycles. Also, we will discuss and how sleep disorders impact fitness for duty and quality of life. Finally we will discuss strategies to improve sleep.

Meaningful Measurements: Test Item Writing (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Meaningful Measurements: Test Item Writing-Virtual

Virtual (no location)

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Medical Neurological Emergencies (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

This course is an all-level review of neurological emergencies with a heavy focus on medical simulation. Participants of this program will be provided with opportunities to simulate various neurological emergencies in an out-of-hospital scenario. Participants will be expected to provide hands-on care for the simulated patient and work as part of a novel rescue team.

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Measure the Measurement: Test Item Evaluation (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

PHTLS (Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support) (Bethlehem)

Raymond S. Burton Training Facility 80 Ray Burton Drive, Bethlehem, NH, United States

NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics: Physiology of life and death Scene assessment Patient assessment Hemorrhage control Airway Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation Circulation and shock Special populations The course emphasizes application of trauma education through case studies, skills practice, and patient simulations. PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in over 80 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital practitioners. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

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Measure the Measurement: Test Item Evaluation-Virtual

Virtual (no location)

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Designing Simulation-Based Education (Concord)

Richard M. Flynn Training Facility 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH, United States

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980

Designing Simulation-Based Education-Virtual

Virtual (no location)

Locations: All in-person sessions will be held at the Richard M. Flynn Fire Academy, 98 Smokey Bear Blvd, Concord, NH 03301. Links to the online sessions will be sent out the week prior to the start date. Portions of sessions may be recorded and made available online at a later date. Workshops require participants to bring an element of their practice to work on. Course Contact:  For more information about these sessions, contact Max Dodge, FSTEMS Curriculum Administrator at, Peter.M.Dodge@dos.nh.gov or (603) 369-7980