Sports Medicine Competition - St Francis High School

Sports Medicine and Sports Therapy Instructors be sure to calendar April 19, 2008, Saturday for the next Sports Medicine Student Competition at St. Francis High School in La Canada. Check out their website under the links on the right side of the blog. You can also access Eli Hallak at ehallak@sfhs.net or view the sports medicine competition informational powerpoint at http://www.sfhssportsmedicine.com/competition.html

Nursing Instructor Inservice October 12, 2007

LACOROP Nursing Instructors,
I hope your school year started smoothly. I just wanted to remind you about our annual nursing inservice on October 12, 2007 here at the County office on Clark, from 8-3:30, Linda will get the room number to you as soon as it is confirmed.

• Remember to bring your policy and procedure book and master forms so that we can proceed with our annual scrapbook activity. (Judy you will need to bring the work that you did on the Home Health Aide P&Ps and master forms)


• You will also need to bring the following: pictures of your students in action and a picture of the facility that you utilize for training. We will be using them for the Nov 2, 2007 advisory. On a disc or zip drive would be best. Or you can email them.


• We will also be working on completing the MSW (making standards work) projects started last year. What this means to you is that we will be working in groups to develop PBA (performance based assessments) for the entire nursing area over the 2007-8 school year (you may need to bring text and other support materials)


• Bring your favorite lesson to share


• We will also be discussing the pros and cons of implementing "Fundamentals of Nursing" so bring your thinking caps


• We will be discussing the new certificate procedures and challenges


• Also bring your 283b if you need signatures


• and what do you know about the nursing unit now in Department of Public Health not Department of Health Services????????

Please remind your steering committee representative of this meeting so that you will get reimbursed.
Let me know if you have any questions and ideas for lunch.
See you soon,
Karin

I just returned from the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Educators (NAEMSE) Symposium in good ol' Hollyweird. What a place to host a national conference the attendees got a little bit of everything -- Wil Smith taping a movie on Highland and Hollywood Blvd. with explosions and car wrecks. Jamie Fox getting his star on the walk of fame. Superman, Jimmy Hendrix, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, people begging for food right off your plate, a house moving down the 101 on Saturday until it got stuck under an overpass and caused an outrageous traffic jam. Just to name a few of the events outside the conference. If the attendees didn't leave California thinking we're all nuts I would truly be surprised.

Reporting from the educational side of the conference -- over the next year you will have the opportunity to give input on the new national EMS curriculum standards for EMR, EMT, and Paramedic. These standards will replace our current National DOT curriculum and will be reflected in the National Registry testing about a year after the curriculum is adopted.

There were several break out sessions devoted to assessing student achievement and progress, regulatory issues, current research, instructor resources, vendor displays, as well as applications for various types of classroom technology (i.e. flash, pod casting, and adding spice to your PowerPoint presentations).

Next years conference is in St. Louis, MO., September 9-14, 2008. Go to NAEMSE.org for more information.

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International Career Development Conference
November 7-11, 2007
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Sacramento, CA
www.careerccc.com

National Association of EMS Educators
12th Annual Educational Symposium and Trade Show
September 11-16, 2007
Hollywood, CA
go to www.naemse.org/symposium for more information