This can be a sticky situation for students, fellow instructors and program coordinators alike. All instructors don't have to teach alike, but students have an expectation of, and some would say a right to, consistency.
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Hard Times for Soft Skills
Hard Times for Soft Skills revised from the NAEMSE Educator Update Summer 2014 Are so-called “Soft Skills” such as critical thinking, leadership, professionalism, adaptability, and teamwork important for today’s emergency responder? If so, then why aren’t we teaching them?
Read More »Daring to Dislodge Dogma
Remember the old adage that you can't solve a new problem by using old ways of thinking. When the old dogma starts to stink, it may be time to take it outside.
Read More »Sepsis Alliance 2015 Sepsis Hero: Rescue Digest’s Rom Duckworth
RescueDigest’s own Rom Duckworth has been selected by the Sepsis Alliance as one of their 2015 Sepsis Heroes.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Trauma in Special Populations
Caring for patients with severe traumatic injuries can be difficult enough but what do you do when your patient is very young, very old or very pregnant or very large?
Read More »While you were out, there was a fire. Thoughts on Leadership from FDIC
Leadership When No One Is Watching Every year in April approximately 30,000 brothers and sisters of the fire service descend on Indianapolis, Indiana for Fire Engineering’s Fire Department Instructor’s Conference: FDIC. For the past few years I’ve been proud to count myself among them as both a student and a teacher. It is an amazing event that educates the mind, ...
Read More »The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 26: Top 5 Things That Legal Counsel Wants Emergency Responders To Know
A Fire Medic Perspective: The top five things that Legal Counsel wants Emergency Responders to know. Rom Duckworth and Allison Bloom discuss how we may not know what we need to know to stay on the right side of the law and sometimes what we THINK we know can get us into more trouble than what we don’t. Our guest today is ...
Read More »Education For The Next Generation of Responders: We CAN NOT Teach Like We Were Taught
Honor Your History, but Teach for the Future Welcome to the new year. If we’ve learned anything over the past year then we’re smarter than a year ago and way ahead of where we were ten years ago. Let’s start teaching like it. First We Taught Book Knowledge. Then We Taught Street Knowledge. We’re Beyond That Now.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Modern Contents and Construction Demand Modern Fire Tactics
This collection of resources uses a straight forward approach to show how you can use new information to give more options, not less.
Read More »Prepping for Change in 2015 and Beyond: Teaching Old Dogs New CPR
Having had the opportunity to attend the last AHA Guidelines roll-out in Chicago in October of 2010 I wound up reading everything I could on the guidelines in the research behind them so that when I showed up to represent my state I didn’t look like some kind of dope. It was an easy digging through all those papers, but when I was finished I noticed something profound in both the recommendations and the research (though not the ACLS algorithms or courses, but that is another topic). I saw how and why we were going to have to make a CHANGE.
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