EMS Health and Wellness
- Provider Safety and Well-Being
- Standard safety precautions
- Handwashing
- Adherence to standard precautions/OSHA regulations
- Safe operation of EMS/patient care equipment
- Environmental control
- Occupational health and bloodborne pathogens
- Immunizations
- Sharps
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Stress Management
- Types of stress reactions
- Acute stress reaction
- Delayed stress reaction
- Cumulative stress reaction
- Stress management
- Change in lifestyle
- Balance in life
- Recognize response to family and friends
- Change in work environment
- Seek professional assistance
- Dealing with death and dying
- Types of stress reactions
- Stages of death and dying
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
- Prevention of Work-Related Injuries
- Vehicle restraint systems
- Safe lifting techniques
- Adequate sleep
- Physical fitness and nutrition
- Hazard awareness
- Adherence to standard precautions/OSHA regulations
- Disease transmission prevention -- communicable versus blood borne
- Lifting and moving patients
- Lifting techniques
- Safety precautions
- Guidelines for lifting
- Safe lifting of cots and stretchers.
- Power lift or squat lift position
- Power grip
- Back in locked-in position
- Carrying
- Precautions for carrying
- Guidelines for carrying
- Correct carrying procedure
- One-handed carrying technique
- Correct carrying procedure on stairs
- Reaching
- Guidelines for reaching
- Application of reaching techniques
- Correct reaching for log rolls
- Pushing and pulling guidelines
- Emergency move
- Indications
- Fire or danger of fire
- Explosives or other hazardous materials
- Other hazards at the scene
- To gain access to other patients in a vehicle who need life- saving care
- Patient's location or position, e.g., a cardiac arrest patient sitting in a chair or lying on a bed
- Technique
- Indications
- Urgent Move
- Indications
- Altered mental status
- Inadequate breathing
- Shock (hypoperfusion)
- Non-urgent moves
- Indication
- Direct ground lift (no suspected spine injury)
- Extremity lift (no suspected extremity or back injuries)
- Indication
- Transfer of supine patient from bed to stretcher
- Direct carry
- Draw sheet method
- Emergency move
- Lifting techniques
- Equipment
- Stretchers/cots
- Types
- Wheeled stretcher
- Portable stretcher
- Stair chair
- Bariatric stretcher
- Standard
- Types
- Tracked systems
- Backboards
- Long
- Short
- Traditional wooden device
- Vest type device
- Scoop or orthopedic stretcher
- Flexible stretcher
- Bariatric stretcher
- Pneumatic or electronic stretchers
- Neonatal Isoletes
- Maintenance - follow manufacturer's directions for inspection, cleaning, repair and upkeep
- Patient positioning
- Unresponsive patient without suspected spine injury
- A patient with chest pain or discomfort or difficulty breathing
- A patient with suspected spine injury
- Pregnant patient with hypotension
- A patient who is nauseated or vomiting
- Bariatric patients
- Patient size
- Specialized equipment
- Stretchers
- Ambulances
- Ramps
- Winches
- Personnel considerations
- Backboards
- Stretchers/cots
- Disease Transmission
- Wellness Principles
- Physical Wellbeing
- Physical fitness
- Cardiovascular endurance
- Muscle strength
- Muscle flexibility
- Sleep
- Disease prevention
- Injury prevention
- Physical fitness
- Mental Wellbeing
- Alcohol and drug issues
- Smoking cessation
- Stress Management
- Relationship issues
- Physical Wellbeing
Content Creator: Carli Wymore
CAPCE Course Number: 18-EMTP-F3-4310
Total CE Hours: 1
Level: Basic
NJ Course Number: 1955383877380
EMT-CE uses the NEMSES guidelines as the foundation for every course outline.