OEC Refresher: Pinecrest & Lake Alpine Ski Patrols
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Date: Saturday
September 25, 2010, 8:00 to 5
Location: Fellowship Hall, Hillcrest Congregational
Church, 404 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523.
Registration:
Advance enrollment required: email Steve Donelan. Visiting patrollers
welcome: Include
your name, patrol, and NSP number in your message.
Contact: Steve
Donelan, e-mail - donelan@speakeasy.net.
Bring: OEC card,
completed open book test from Ski Patrol Magazine (summer issue),
patrol pack, ski poles, CPR pocket mask (to use in oxygen
administration), and lunch. Also bring stethoscope and blood pressure
cuff if you have them.
Preparation:
Complete the OEC Study
Guide, printed in the summer issue of Ski Patrol Magazine. Also check www.OECzone.com for online study and review
tools, including videos of skills.
Study Guide online
: Don't have the magazine? No problem. Go to the National Ski Patrol
web site (www.nsp.org) and you will find the refresher study guide in
pdf
format, so you can download it and print it out.
Instructors:
Don't forget to e-mail me your preferences for skills station and
scenario station assignments (1st & 2nd choices).
Need CPR?
I now teach CPR at and recommend the San Francisco
Paramedic Association: www.sfparamedics.org.
They are just a few blocks from the Montgomery Street BART station. We
teach the new American Heart Association courses, which are a great
improvement. You practice each component of a skill
right along with the video, then put them all together.
This method trains you much more effectively and in less time than the
old courses did. SFPA
Instructors are all experienced paramedics and
EMT's, and they know the science behind CPR as well as how it works in
real life. You need BLS-HCP,
which
is 5 hours long. If
your current card has
not expired, you can sign up for a shorter BLS-HCP Review course.
Plan
- In the morning, we will have an hour of
presentations, then rotate through skills stations.
- While we eat lunch together, we will go
over the open book study test and discuss the answers.
- In the afternoon, we will rotate through
scenario stations, which will be very realistic.
- After the scenarios, patrollers fill out
confidential evaluations of the refresher and turn them in with
refresher completion records.
- Steve will sign OEC cards and refresher
completion acknowledgements.
- Finally, we will give participants the
opportunity to make public comments on
the refresher before closing.
- After the
refresher, we will have a brief patrol meeting.
Requirements
To get credit for
the refresher, you must:
- Be currently
registered as a National Ski Patroller or candidate, with your dues for
the upcoming season paid (patrol treasurers should be there).
- Turn in your
completed open book study questions when you arrive.
- Be checked
off at all the basic skills stations.
- Be checked
off at all the scenario stations, including at least one complete
patient
assessment.
CPR certification
In order to patrol, you
must re-certify in CPR every year - the NSP does not recognize 2-year
certification periods. Certification must be in Basic Life Support for
Healthcare Providers (BLS-HCP),
also known as CPR for Professional Rescuers, which includes adult,
child, and infant skills
for a single
rescuer, two-rescuer adult and infant CPR, and use of the pocket CPR
mask and Bag Valve Mask.
American
Heart Association, American
Red Cross, American Safety & Health Institute, and National
Safety Council all
offer courses that meet these requirements.
Verifying CPR
certification
For Pinecrest and
Lake Alpine patrollers, if you have already re-certified in CPR and
show us your card during check-in, we will note it on the roster.
Otherwise, you must show your PD proof of re-certification before
patrolling.
SAM
splints
I will have SAM splints available for those who need to
buy them, at wholesale cost plus shipping - $10 each. Bring exact
change for the number you need.
Patients for scenarios
We need patients for the afternoon scenarios (12 noon to 4:30). Let me
know if you can provide friends or family. Kids welcome if they are old
enough to remember and act out their roles. Moulage experts from my
wilderness program will coach them and apply accident makeup. Make sure
they bring or wear old clothes, because the makeup is messy.
Schedule
8:00
Check in and turn in completed study questions (required for admission
to refresher)
8:30
Presentations
9:15 Skills
stations
12:30 Working lunch:
discussion of the study questions as we eat. Robert Parkhurst
Instructors
and moulage
volunteers prepare scenario stations.
1:30
Scenario stations - first rotation
2:30
Scenario stations - second rotation
3:30
Scenario station - third rotation
4:15
Convene for comments on refresher by participants, and patrol meetings.
Patrollers
fill out evaluations and turn in refresher completion records.
Instructors sign OEC cards and completion acknowledgements.
NOTE: PNSP &
LANSP
patrollers who have not paid their dues must settle with their
Treasurer before getting signatures and being entered on the NSP roster.
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