TEMSEA 2020 Conference Agenda
Day 1
Mastering the AEMT Cognitive Examination is designed to bring educators to the table to discuss the components of the National EMS licensure examination at the Advanced EMT level. Additionally, educators will be able to discuss methods to ensuring that a program’s curriculum is designed to adequately prepare students for successful completion of the licensure examination and for their first patient as an entry level Advanced EMT.
David Blevins
Eric McCullough
0800-0900
Session 1
Mastering the AEMT Exam
Instructor
Coordinator
Regional consultant meeting for Tennessee I/Cs and I/As. Chip Cook will do the regional consultant update.
0930-1030
Regional Consultant Meeting
with Chip Cook
Instructor
Coordinator
Learning the hundreds of drugs encountered in EMS on patient calls seems nearly impossible to students and teaching them is often painful to instructors. This presenter has developed a method of teaching that includes a schedule, lesson plans, guided practice, quizzes and a memory and classification system for students and instructors. If teaching pharmacology is your responsibility, then this session is a must!
Heather Davis
1100-1200
Session 3
Instructor
Coordinator
How to Teach Pharmacology
Everything you do as an educator either contributes to excellence among your students or tears it down. Do you wish students wanted to work harder? Wanted to be the best? You can make them want it! This session will make sense of the science behind human motivation and show you how that research can be applied to our classrooms. Many of the techniques behind peak performance are very easy to implement. Why not give your students a fighting chance at greatness? After all, each one of them is a reflection of you!
Heather Davis
1230-1330
Session 4a
Psyching for Success
Instructor
Coordinator
Over the past 15 years EMS has transformed from paper charting to an all-electronic charting system of data collection. While data has become a great resource for many agencies, the use of NEMSIS data has distracted providers from writing a tell the story narrative. As result, many EMS agencies have lost revenue and/or suffered greatly from auditors due to the lack of supporting documentation required by CMS (Medicare). This transformation has mandated
more emphasis on the collection of data. However, CMS requires narratives to be descriptive and include copious objective observations and findings at the time of transport, thus dropdown data field are not able to describe.
The presentation will discuss that data fields, and written narratives serve two very different, but equally important and necessary purposes, neither of which can replace the other.
Phillip Sanderson
1230-1330
Session 4b
Documentation Good, Bad, and Ugly
Provider
Kiersten Espaillat, DNP
1400-1500
Session 5
Provider
Suspicious Stroke
Jason Koger became the first bilateral arm amputee in the world to be fitted with multi-articulating bionic hands after losing both hands in a traumatic ATV accident in 2008. Today, he encourages others to live a life without limitations by spreading his favorite message: Why survive when you can thrive?
Jason Koger
1530-1630
Session 6
Provider
Why Survive When You Can Thrive?
Day 2
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is an overarching term describing a spectrum of clinical outcomes derived from any number of defects that are present in the structure of the heart at birth. Cyanotic congenital heart defects are due to the defects in the circulatory system present at birth that give a bluish tint to the skin. Cyanosis is a result of the shunting of blood from the right side to the left side of the heart, decreasing the oxygen saturation and increasing the content of de-oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood. This presentation will discuss the pathology of cyanotic CHD, the various types of anomalies encountered, and the emergency treatment of children in crisis. Delivered in an easy to understand and plain English manner, this session will give the provider and educator confidence when approaching a case of cyanotic CHD.
Rick Slaven
0800-0900
Session 1
Provider
Pediatric Cyanosis
The Special Needs Awareness Program is designed with one purpose in mind, to assist first responders who may interact with people who have special needs. Because nearly 30% the State of TN has a disability according to the CDC. First Responders are as likely as or more likely than first responders in other states to encounter people with special needs. That is why this training is so critical.
Skyler Phillips
0930-1030
Session 2
Provider
Special Needs Awareness
This is a comprehensive overview of child maltreatment to provide education on the identification of child maltreatment, recognition of sentinel injuries of abuse, and tools for EMS providers caring for patients of suspected child physical abuse. This talk was created by Dr. Chris Daly, Chief Resident Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, and Dr. Heather Williams of the Vanderbilt Child Maltreatment team in collaboration with Lee Blair and Jennifer Dindo of the Department of Pediatric Emergency Services at the Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with the goal of furthering child abuse education for EMS providers.
Dr. Chris Daly
1100-1200
Session 3
Provider
Child Abuse
Tennessee EMS education update required for all I/Cs and I/As to attend. Director Brandon Ward.
1230-1330
Session 4A
Tennessee EMS Update
Director Brandon Ward
Instructor
Coordinator
The basics of Neonatal Resuscitation with 6 easy steps to help remember. We will provide delivery and neonatal simulation to show the equipment and process of resuscitation
Mary Lee Lemley
1230-1330
Session 4b
Provider
6 Quick Tips to NRP
Derrick Edwards
1400-1500
Session 5
Instructor
Coordinator
Understanding the Role of Stress in Responder Burnout
EMS providers interact with individuals throughout their communities, from the most affluent to the least advantaged. It is important that these providers understand how social determinants of health (SDoH) including a person’s social interactions, physical environment, access to health services, and other societal factors may impact a person’s wellbeing. EMS educators can incorporate these lessons into their classrooms to encourage future EMTs, AEMTs, and paramedics to recognize the social and health inequities which may have led to a person’s poor health status.
Kevin Spratlin
1530-1630
Session 6