RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Critical Thinking in Emergency Services Education: Teaching not just “how”, but “why”! An emergency responder who is an independent thinking is a valuable commodity. It’s clear that critical thinking must be part of an education program in order to teach students to become intelligent, compassionate and skillful emergency responders. But ...
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RescueDigest Resources: Social Media Policies and Marketing for Emergency Services
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Social Media and Emergency Services: Promoting and policing your service. While department social media feeds are becoming commonplace, few agencies are using social media tools to promote their organization effectively. What policies and guides to use to keep your social media use on target and out of hot ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Caring for Geriatrics
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Caring for Geriatrics: The Challenge of Elder Care Today the proportion of the elderly in America is greater today than ever before and is growing even larger. What’s more, the elderly tend to be our sickest and most challenging patients. What signs and symptoms may indicate common disease ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Emergency Scene Management
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Emergency Scene Management: It isn’t just a skill for the “white shirts”. From Officers and Managers to the Grunts on the street, we all have the potential to be First Due / On-Scene, arriving at calls that have the potential to quickly get away from us. While many ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET?
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET, that is the question. Do field-placed ET tubes improve patient outcomes? Should all cardiac arrest patients arrive at the hospital intubated? Exactly what airways qualify as BLS now? Should your airway choices change if the problem is medical illness or ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Difficult Student Behavior
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Do YOU have difficult students like this? Dealing with Difficult Student Behavior: Is the solution policies, parenting or perhaps something else? The Know-it-all. The Worrier. The Heckler. The Rambler. The Cheater. Is one rotten apple going to spoil your whole program? How can educators differentiate between difficult students and difficult ...
Read More »The disruption of education: How technology is helping students teach themselves
Mobile technology and social networks aren’t just disruptive to existing industries like communications and media, they are also helping the change the way that students learn and how education is delivered both in North America and around the world.
Read More »RescueDigest Audio Podcast Episode 5: Tips on Student Questions
Audio Podcast Episode 5 The RescueDigest Audio Podcast brings you news, interviews and tips you can use to make your life in emergency services a little easier and help you in your job protecting the members of your community. [powerpress] In this episode, tips on how to get students to ask questions. For News, Interviews and Tips You ...
Read More »Extrication Training Symposium
A RescueDigest Extrication Training Opportunity! A RescueDigest affiliate, the Southeastern Extrication School is a non-profit organization comprised of six volunteers committed to furthering the response capabilities of local emergency responders to motor vehicle collisions and other types of entrapments. Their efforts include purchasing specialty equipment not commonly available for emergency use, providing local departments and industry training, and furthering our ...
Read More »Cuppa: 5 Things School Leaders Should Consider While Implementing Change
See on Scoop.it – Emergency Services “20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain See on www.christinemheine.com
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