Battalion Chief, R.N., B.S. (Ret.) Lehi City Fire Department
I got into the EMS, fire and nursing a long time ago. My love is in emergency medicine with emphasis in trauma. Wow, it has changed…A lot. I have worked as a charge nurse, EMT, firefighter, Captain, Battalion Chief, and instructor of all types of EMS education. I have some of the alphabet soup to put behind my name, but my favorite job is Grandpa. There really is no place (other than with my grandkids) that I would rather be, than with strong, dedicated, fearless, tireless, funny, smart, loving people who attend this conference. Long live Jimmy Buffett!
Did you ever get a sliver under your fingernail, or have you ever stepped on a toothpick? That really hurts. This course goes over larger than life slivers that patients have had injected into their bodies and what we can do to keep them alive and make them more comfortable.
Wow! What will they think of next? The new drugs are more dangerous and harder for us to treat. It seems like illicit drug makers are trying to create ways to make it so that the herd gets thinned by their drugs. We need to learn what is out there and what we can do, […]
Enthusiasm, industriousness, friendliness, and other building blocks are important for great department life. We need a little dog poop in our lives to learn to be the best leader, teacher, and employee. We also need to learn how “one” can change everything.
To put it plain and simple…oxygen treatment is killing our patients. We have thought for years that more is better, but more is killing those we have been put in charge of helping. This class explains why oxygen use is dangerous for our patients and what our alternatives are.
Looney tunes are all around us. Just watch the news. To make matters worse, new ways to harm ourselves through recreational activities are invading every single day. The course discusses the most common ways to get “high” and how the patient may present to us. We will explore ways to “stabilize” our patients and learn […]
What is the total package when it comes to providing care for our patients? Are we doing them any good by reciting all of the alphabet soup in patient care? This class discusses the hows and whys of patient care and what our priorities should be. We discuss getting back to the basics.
What will they think of next? We have people eating Tide pods, we have people drinking bottles of cold syrup, now we have people vaping every kind of substance they can think of. How do we keep up? What are the outcomes of inhaling these noxious vapors? Let’s explore this new world of vaping and […]
Please join us for a 1-day-only training in advanced cardiac arrest training for Emergency Medical providers. The Utah Resuscitation Academy(“UtahRA”) is specifically for EMS Medical Directors, Training Officers, EMS Directors & field providers. The faculty will be experts in prehospital cardiac arrest care in Utah. The next “UtahRA” will be held at the EMSAssociates “SUMMIT […]