The All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR) course teaches students how to respond to the many types of disaster scenarios they may encounter, including natural disasters and infrastructure failings, fires and radiological events, pandemics, active shooter incidents, and other mass casualty events. AHDR educates participants on how to analyze potential threats in their area, assess available resources, and create a response plan that will save lives.

Features of a medical response plan covered in the course include:

• Communicating effectively during disasters.
• Mutual aid and interoperability.
• Managing resources such as supplies, medications and equipment.
• Triage and transportation strategies and challenges.
• Patient tracking and evacuation.

At the start of the course, participants conduct a “hazards vulnerability analysis” to assess features of their environment, both natural and man-made, that pose risk along with assessing the needs of vulnerable populations, such as assisted-living residents or hospital patients that need special consideration during such an event.

Content is presented in the context of realistic scenarios, culminating with a large-scale mass casualty activity.

AHDR is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners. This course is offered in the classroom and provides 8 hours of CAPCE credit and NREMT recognition.

• Monday, May 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM (16 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center

NAEMT’s 3rd edition EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides students with a forum to share their own experiences. Course activities allow students to apply critical thinking and best safety practices to EMS scenarios. 

Students are taught to

• Identify and manage the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress.
• Describe and apply the principles of crew resource management in EMS.
• Apply techniques to maintain safe vehicle operations.
• List and assess strategies to apply in the field that improve patient safety.
• Identify strategies to ensure practitioner safety.
• Strengthen resilience skills and focus on personal health to combat both chronic and critical incident stress.

Topics covered include:

• How safety impacts patients and practitioners, from maintaining a culture of safety in changing situations to communication and documentation strategies.
• Crew resource management in EMS, modeling effective communication, maintaining situational awareness, and a being an effective member of a team.
• Emergency vehicle safety including maintenance and inspection considerations, responsibilities of due regard, defensive driving techniques, and common causes of vehicle collisions and strategies to avoid them.
• Safety in the roadway, including multi-agency pre-planning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices.
• Patient safety, strategies to identify and prevent common patient errors, just culture, and safe handling techniques for all patients.
• Practitioner safety, situational awareness, and verbal, physical, and chemical techniques to deescalate potential threats.
• Injury and infection prevention and control.
• Practitioner personal health, resilience skills, and ensuring personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field.

EMS Safety is offered as an 8-hour classroom course and is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators. Students who successfully complete the course receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card good for 4 years. EMS Safety is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

• Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 8:00 AM (26 seats left)Sparta Ambulance Squad

EMT Core Refresher A session 

• Friday, May 10, 2024 at 8:00 AM (6 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center
• Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM (5 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center

EMT Core Refresher B Session

• Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM (5 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center
• Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM (4 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center

EMT Core Refresher Session C

• Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM (5 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center
• Monday, June 10, 2024 at 8:00 AM (4 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center

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.

• Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 8:00 AM (16 seats left)Saint Clare's Dover Hospital - Training Center
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Have you considered a career as a Paramedic?

Cannot commit to a full time classroom setting?

Come and meet with the Program Director and Assistant Director of Rowan College Burlington County’s Hybrid Paramedic Program!

• Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 11:00 AMSaint Clare's Denville Hospital

This Class Has Been APPROVED by NJOEMS For 2 CEU's

Come and explore our state-of-the-art Cath Lab facility where Neurological patients are brought.  Meet Dr. Farkus, and learn what happens once you drop your patients off!

• Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM (45 seats left)Saint Clare's Denville Hospital

The Sign Language for EMS course will give the provider an entry-level knowledge to interact with those of the Deaf Community. 

Students will learn basic signs, pertinent to their assessment and informational gathering capabilities. 

This course has been awarded 3 CEU's by the New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services.

• Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM (20 seats left)Flanders Fire and Rescue

The 2^nd edition of NAEMT's Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course teaches EMS practitioners and other prehospital providers how to respond to and care for patients in a civilian tactical environment.

The course presents the three phases of tactical care and integrates parallel EMS nomenclature:

• Hot Zone/Direct Threat Care that is rendered while under attack or in adverse conditions.
• Warm Zone/Indirect Threat Care that is rendered while the threat has been suppressed but may resurface at any point.
• Cold Zone/Evacuation Care that is rendered while the casualty is being evacuated from the incident site. 

The 16-hour classroom course includes all new patient simulations and covers the following topics:

• Hemorrhage control including immediate action drills for tourniquet application throughout the course;
• Complete coverage of the MARCH assessment;
• Surgical airway control and needle decompression;
• Strategies for treating wounded responders in threatening environments;
• Caring for pediatric patients;
• Techniques for dragging and carrying victims to safety; and
• A final, mass-casualty/active shooter event simulation.

NAEMT's TECC course is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, is consistent with the current guidelines established by the Committee on TECC (Co-TECC), and meets all of the updated National Tactical Emergency Medical Support Competency Domains. This course is accredited by CAPCE for 16 hours of continuing education credit, and recognized by NREMT.

NAEMT is a recognized education partner of the Co-TECC. The Co-TECC establishes guidelines for the provision of prehospital care to injured patients during a tactical incident. The Co-TECC neither creates curriculum for the prehospital provider, nor does it endorse the curriculum of other organizations.

• Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM (29 seats left)Picatinny Arsenal - Homeland Defense Technology Center
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• Friday, September 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM (30 seats left)Picatinny Arsenal - Homeland Defense Technology Center
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  Sat 9/21/24 at 8:00a