Advanced MANDT
Schedule: Twice a month for in-class, every Monday
Advanced Technical Instruction provides a much higher level of physical skill to support workplace safety during instances of intentional physical aggression and violence. The advanced technical instruction is appropriate for settings where the individuals served have a history of being, or are likely to become, physically aggressive to themselves or others.
Who is it for?
The Advanced Mandt Training is for individuals who work with people whose aggression and violence are at a higher skill and threat level. Often the aggression is intentional and not simply emotionally escalated.
Requirements:
- Must have RCT certification.
- Pre-workshop eLearning is required.
- Instructors are certified for two years.
- Staff are certified for one year.
$3,223 per instructor
Choking And Dysphagia
Schedule: By appointment
The Choking and Dysphagia training has been designed specifically for Care and Support Workers working in a social care setting. It may also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about dysphagia and choking.
What does this course teach?
- Understand what dysphagia is and what can cause it.
- Understand how we swallow.
- Identify potential signs and symptoms.
- Know how to support an individual to prepare for a diagnosis.
- Identify key challenges for people with dysphagia and how to support them.
- Identify key purposes and elements of the IDDSI Framework.
- Understanding when someone may be choking and what to do.
- How to monitor, report and manage risk.
$50 deposit
Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
Schedule: Once a month
Emergency Medical Response is a dynamic 56-hour course featuring lecture, video, simulated emergency situations, discussion and hands-on skill practice based on the national EMS curriculum requirements and educational standards. Whether responding to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, or hazmat spills, officials need the tools and information to establish command and control, coordinate communication, evacuate citizens, and execute clean-up operations to protect human and wildlife populations and natural resources.
Formerly known as First Responder this course is designed to teach the student the skills needed to sustain life and prevent further injury until advanced help arrives. While EMR personnel do not provide primary care to patients being transported by ambulance they may be asked to assist during the transport of critically injured or ill patients. This course is also often required by some industries for their safety and response personnel.
What does this course teach?
- History and introduction to EMS.
- Scene Safety.
- Health and Well-being.
- Legal and Ethical Issues.
- Lifting and Moving Patients.
- Airway Management.
- Patient Assessment.
- Medical and Traumatic Emergencies.
- Obstetrical Emergencies.
Who is it for?
Factory safety officers and response teams, police officers, firemen or other persons who routinely respond to emergency situations at work or in the community.
$50 deposit
Emergency Oxygen (O2) Administration
Schedule: By appointment
Emergency oxygen administration can be given in most breathing and cardiac emergencies. This course, designed and offered by EMS Safety Services, may be taught separately or as part of a comprehensive CPR, AED or First Aid training course.
This course is intended to teach emergency oxygen (O2) administration. The program covers equipment and procedures for administering oxygen as an emergency procedure. Equipment selection and use for decompression illness emergencies are detailed with practical components to train a well rounded rescuer.
What does this course teach?
- Identification of DCI.
- Administration of emergency oxygen.
- Types and uses of oxygen equipment.
- Oxygen delivery devices and how to use them.
- General guidelines for use of emergency oxygen.
- Risks associated with oxygen delivery.
- Oxygen safety and storage.
Who is it for?
- Scuba Divers.
- Dive Professionals and boat staff.
- Other individuals who may need to administer oxygen.
- Minimum age 18, 10 with parental consent.
How to take this course?
There are two components to your training in order to receive your certification. The first is academics and the second is skills. You must first pass your academics training to proceed to the second phase and work with an instructor in a classroom setting.
Upon successful completion of the course, graduates may:
- Recognize and evaluate an emergency and a victim.
- Know how to activate or alert the emergency medical services (EMS).
- Be able to administer O2 to a breathing or non-breathing person.
- OSHA and ILCOR compliant training.
E-Learning: $18.95 – Manual: $28.95
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MANDT (DDA)
Schedule: Every other Friday of the month
The Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) uses The Mandt System as the approved behavioral support training program. This program meets the requirements of COMAR 10.22.10.04 as it addresses clinically appropriate methodologies to prevent, de-escalate, and if necessary, physically intervene when the individual’s behavior poses a threat of harm to themselves or others.
By completing this nine-course training package, you will meet the COMAR requirement to be employed as a direct support professional under Maryland’s DDA regulations.
What does this course teach?
- The Aging Process.
- Communicable Disease.
- Communication Skills.
- Community Integration and Inclusion.
- Fundamental Rights of Individuals.
- General Characteristics and Needs of Individuals.
- Individual Planning.
- Principles of Behavior Change.
- Supporting Individuals and Families in Making Choices.
Deposit: $50
Medication Technician
Schedule: Once a month, on Friday
The purpose of the Certified Medication Technician (CMT) training program is to prepare individuals for employment as a CMT in an intermediate care or skilled care nursing facility. The program is designed to teach skills in administration of nonparenteral medications that will qualify students to perform this procedure to assist licensed practical nurses or registered professional nurses in medication therapy.
The course consists of at least 60 hours of instruction and a minimum of 8-hours of clinical practice under the direct supervision of an instructor.
The class consists of instruction in these areas: basic review of body systems and medication effect on each system, medical terminology, infection control, and medication classifications.
What does this course teach?
- Become competent with medication terminology and abbreviations.
- How to transcribe physician orders.
- Learn the correct way medication is packaged, stored, and your role in accountability.
- Anatomy and Physiology.
- Introduction to pharmacology and different classification of medications.
- Preparing and administering medications specific to the CMT role: oral, ophthalmic (eye), optic (ear), topical, transdermal, oral, nasal, vaginal, rectal, oxygen.
Deposit: $50
Severe Bleeding Control (ASHI)
Schedule: TBD
Serious injury can lead to life-threatening blood loss within minutes – be prepared to provide lifesaving care when the unexpected happens in your home, at your place of work or in your community.
This interactive 30-minute online course will prepare you to recognize severe, life-threatening bleeding emergencies and to take action to stop the flow of blood.
What does this course teach?
- How to recognize life-threatening bleeding.
- What action steps to take in a life-threatening bleeding emergency.
- When to use a tourniquet.
- How to apply windlass rod, elasticized wrap and improvised tourniquets.
- When to use hemostatic dressing.
Deposit: $50
Support Brokerage (Self-Directives)
Schedule: TBD
The Support Brokerage course is designed as a full program which will give you all of the information, understanding and practical tools you need to be able to practice as a Support Broker.
There is an option to take the accreditation and to then become registered with Support Brokerage Network.
In order to achieve accreditation, participants must attend all sessions, and submit a completed five completed workbook and support plan. Learners should expect to complete an element of self-directed study/reading and coursework time outside of the training sessions. There are 5 units to the course which are delivered over 8 x 2 hours sessions delivered online over zoom. We can tailor the course delivery for learners of all abilities. We will discuss your learning needs with you when you make your deposit.
What does this course teach?
- The historical development of Self Directed Support.
- The values and approaches relating to ‘Personalization’ and Self Directed Support.
- An introduction to the legal frameworks relevant to Self Directed Support.
- Understanding the differences between Support Brokerage, Advocacy, Social Work and Care Management.
- The practical skills needed to support someone to access a Personal Budget, Personal Health Budget, Direct
- Payment or Individual Service Fund.
- A brief introduction to Individual Service Funds and the practical functions associated with them.
- Exploring the wider range of Community Development & Strengths-based approaches to understand how support brokerage fits with these.
- Tools, techniques and approaches integral to Person-Centered planning & Community Mapping.
Who is it for?
- Individuals who want to self-direct their own support and/or act as self-advocates.
- Family members who want to be involved in self-directing the support of a relative.
- Anyone providing information, advice & guidance within a community, health and social care context.
- Anyone involved in doing Person-Centered Planning or developing Support Plans.
- Individuals working in Direct Payment or Personal Health Budget teams.
- Individuals working in Self Directed Support teams.
- Health & Social Care provider organizations.
- Social Care & Health professionals with an interest or involvement in Personalization.
Deposit: $50
Wilderness First Aid
Schedule: Every Saturday
Wilderness first aid or “WFA”, is a generic term that commonly refers to any training course that focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment for an ill or injured person in a remote environment where definitive care by a physician and/or rapid transport is not readily available. This is defined as being an hour or more away from advanced care. WFA courses are intended for anyone planning a remote high adventure, from lay responders to medical professionals.
Who is it for?
Youth (14 years old and up) and adult Scout leaders are encouraged to take a 16-hour WFA course based on the specific curriculum developed by the BSA, which includes a management dimension that most courses fail to address.