Instructors & patrollers needed

• We need many OEC instructors and experienced patrollers to teach the skills and run scenario stations.
• Please look at the instructor's schedule below, and let me know what you can help us with: topics, dates, and times.
• As instructors commit to dates, I will update the schedule, so that you can see where more instructors are needed.
• The Saturday sessions are all skills and scenarios, so that is when we need the most instructors.
• For the evening sessions, I show when each activity begins, so that you can plan your participation most efficiently.

Demonstrations
All skills demonstrations are role-playing, which means that the demonstrator models rescuer behavior as well as the skill, saying and doing only what a patroller would in a response to a real incident. The only difference is that every step should be done with exaggerated clarity and neatness. ANOTHER instructor is the narrator, pointing out and explaining to the students what the demonstrator is doing. If a second instructor is not available, then the demonstrator can explain to the PATIENT what he/she is doing. That way, the demonstration will still model patient care behavior.

Skills practice stations
These are for hands-on practice, not lecture. Instructors should answer questions, but keep the focus on how to do the skills, and keep students practicing. If students have done a skill a couple of times, challenge them with a variation, e.g. patient found in different position, or injury in different place.

Scenario stations
These are 100% role-playing. Students should be learning to walk, talk, and think like patrollers as well as how to do specific skills. So instructors need to keep them in their roles: after quickly setting the scene, the instructor becomes invisible and does not talk unless it is necessary to intervene for the safety of the patient. When the students have delivered the patient to the first aid room, the instructor steps into the role of the patroller in charge, and the students hand off the patient with a quick oral report: name, what happened, SAMPLE, injuries, treatment so far. Then the instructor conducts an evaluation: first asking the student for a self-evaluation (distinguish from the report, which is factual), then asking the patient how the students did (Introduction? Communication with patient/other patroller? Assessment? Leadership/teamwork? Treatment?), and finally adding his/her own comments and suggestions.
 

Date      Topics                                                                                                  Instructors

7/26          Administration & distribution of class materials: no instructors needed.

8/2            8:30 pm: Checking pulses

8/7            8:00 pm: Patient assessment

8/9           7:45 pm: Bleeding control, cravat & gauze roller
                8:30 pm: Patient assessment

8/11         8:30 am: CPR instructors set up room for Red Cross CPR/FPR
Sat.         9:00 am: CPR class begins
               5:00 pm:  CPR class ends

8/14         8:00 pm: Moulage lesson: taught by moulage experts
               8:30 pm: Bandaging practice stations
               9:15 pm: Scenario stations: assessment & bandaging/shock problems
 
 

8/16        7:30 pm: Splinting practice stations - leg & ankle (cardboard & Sam splints)
               8:30 pm: Oxygen administration demo & practice in stations
               9:15 pm: Airway & respiratory problems, bleeding, ankle or tib/fib fracture

8/21        8:00 pm: Splinting practice stations - arm & shoulder (Sam, cardboard, airplane)
               9:00 pm: Scenario stations - bone & joint injuries, oxygen may be needed

8/18        8:30 am: Set up room (volunteers?)
Sat.         9:00 am: Traction splinting explanation & demonstration - Sager splint
               9:30 am:  Basic Sager traction splint practice in small groups, patient on back
              10:30 am: Demo: Applying Sager in various body positions; KTD
              11:00 am: Splinting practice stations: Sager, KTD, fixation splinting (review)
               12:00        Lunch - instructors available for students who want more practice
               1:00 pm:  Scenario stations with volunteer victims in full moulage
               4:00 pm:  Questions, master demos with instructor/student teams, cleanup

8/21         8:30 pm: Scenario stations featuring headers, specific injuries, fractures

8/23         8:00 pm: Anatomy game
               8:30 pm: Scenarios featuring chest, abdominal injuries & fractures

8/25        8:30 am: Set up room (volunteers?)
Sat.         9:00 am: Skill stations: patient assessment, bandaging, fixation & traction splinting
              12:00       Lunch
              1:00 pm: Scenario stations with volunteer victims in full moulage
              4:00 pm: Questions & evaluation

8/28        7:45 pm: Skills practice - logrolling & straightening the pretzel, C-collars
               8:30 pm: Scenario stations including possible spinal injuries

8/30        8:00 pm: Scenario stations including cold injury, awkward patient positions

9/4          8:00 pm: Mountain bike & ski race injuries, extricating from bike, helmet removal
                             BRING MOUNTAIN BIKES & HELMETS
               8:30 pm: Scenario stations featuring high-altitude mountain bike race and ski race

9/6          8:30 pm: Scenarios featuring medical problems that caused accidents/injuries

9/8          8:30 am: Set up room (volunteers?)
Sat.         9:00 am: Backboarding clinic with Mike Smith
              12:00:      Lunch
              1:00 pm:  Backboarding scenarios
              4:30 pm:  Questions & evaluation

9/11        8:30 pm: Scenarios featuring medical problems & injuries

9/13        7:00 pm: Scenarios featuring children as victims
                             BRING CHILDREN AT 6:30 FOR MAKEUP & COACHING.
               9:15 pm: Skills review & checkoff

9/15        9:00 am: MEET AT TILDEN PARK FOR OUTDOOR SCENARIO DAY. Bring lunch.
Sat.                       Extrication & transfer including backboarding on slope, water rescue
              4:00 pm: Questions & evaluation

9/20        8:30 pm: Skill review/clinic stations for students to practice after finishing written exam

9/22        8:30 am: INSTRUCTOR CONFERENCE & ROOM SETUP for final practical exam
Sat.         9:00 am: Begin stations
              12:00       Lunch
              1:00 pm:  Resume stations
              4:00 pm:  Grading, conferences, additional stations for borderline students
              5:00 pm:  Closing, cleanup