Tag Archives: Nurse

Does Lecture Based Learning Work?

Death By Power Point Does Lecture Based Learning Work? GOAL: To improve emergency services education. Physics professors are challenging the idea of using lecture as the primary tool for teaching. Physicist David Hestenes’ study found that using the lecture format, students could memorize specific formulas, but weren’t fully grasping the overall concepts. For example, an EMT student may be able ...

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Career / Family Dynamic: Separate Lives?

Career and Family Life, Inextricably Linked. The Toughest Family Questions GOAL: Improve Emergency Responders’ health, safety and performance on the job.  We often talk about our separate lives. We call it Career and Family, but in emergency services, like the military, there is a very special dynamic between the two. By the nature of what we do, people in our Career ...

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Teaching (Yourself) to Be Better at What You Do

How teaching others can teach you. You know it. You are pretty darn good at what you do.  In every aspect of your job you strive for excellence and 9 times out of 10, you reach it. Yet there are still a couple of things you have a hard time mastering.  Maybe there’s even one BIG thing, that one thing ...

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Fourth of July

  The Holidays Like of much of the Emergency Services community, I too, am working this fourth of July and I too will be sweltering in turn-out gear while others will roast hot dogs, drink beer and watch fireworks (and good for them, I hope to join them next year).

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Career Development

  Focus on Development and the Career part will follow naturally Ah, Career Development.  Some begin their career in emergency services as soon as they’re born. Some even before that. We see Mom and Dad or Uncle Jim  and maybe even Granddad or Grandma wearing that uniform and going out to help people and even play with the lights and ...

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Anniversary Time

  Anniversary Time May is a month of Anniversaries for me; the Anniversary of my birth (I’m 41), the Anniversary of my service at the Fire Department (12 years), the Anniversary of my Paramedic License, (16 years), and most importantly, the Anniversary of my marriage (now almost five wonderful years). I think that Anniversaries are a fantastic opportunity. When I ...

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