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EMS Education - News |
"Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes"
This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site, latest protocols, course announcements and policies. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.
 EMS Education Receives Approval for Registered Nurse to Paramedic Training Program
1 August 2006 -- Hartford Hospital and Goodwin College are pleased to announce that they will be offering a Paramedic Training Program starting in September 2006. Students will have the best of both worlds, an academic preparation from a leading career training college and a strong clinical foundation from the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Northern Connecticut. The staff of both institutions are very excited at this new venture and look forward to a very productive program.
Individuals who are interested in taking the paramedic program should contact Daniel Noonan at Goodwin College at (860) 528-4111 or via email at dnoonan@goodwin.edu
EMS Education Staff Receive Awards from AHA
25 February 2004 -- Raffaella Coler and Michael Zacchera of the Department of EMS Education were honored recently by the American Heart Association (AHA) with American Heartsaver Awards.
The awards were given in recognition of their work with the AHA and the Hartford Public Schools. The Hartford Schools have placed AEDs in all three high schools in the city and in three of the middle schools. Mike and Ralf organized training for teachers and staff and in the organization of emergency teams at each school.
Training consisted of three phases, 1. Training of faculty and staff team members in Heartsaver AED. 2. Training 17 Health Education teachers as Heartsaver Instructors and one as an Instructor Trainer. 3. Training of freshmen students during Health Education classes at the three high schools. By the end of the 2003 - 2004 school year over 2,000 students will have been trained in CPR and AED using the Heartsaver in the Schools curriculum.
The awards were given in a ceremony that honored citizens who have performed CPR successfully or who implement plans to decrease morbidity and mortality form cardiac arrest.
EMS Education Receives Approval for Registered Nurse to Paramedic Training Program
1 July 2003 -- The Department of EMS Education is pleased to announce that the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services has given it's approval to the Department's application to hold a Registered Nurse to Paramedic Training Program.
Registered Nurses with Critical Care experience, along with current ACLS and PALS certifications will be able to take the program which will lead to them becoming Nationally Registered Paramedics and licensed by the State of Connecticut as Paramedics.
The program has been brought about through the combined efforts of Lynn Piacentini a Nurse, and Michael Zacchera and Michael Morran, both Paramedics. The group studied the curricula from various nursing schools and compared them with the current National Standard Curriculum for Paramedics and established a curriculum to teach from for the Nurse to Medic Program.
Nurses who are interested in getting further information on the program can either contact Lynn Piacentini at Hartford Hospital, (860) 545-2564 or download a brochure and application from our webpage.
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