jeremybright

I looked into these very seriously a few years back. And a few points First unless they have changed the group College Network was a middle man between students and existing online universities such as University of Phoenix and Excelsior Univ. College network used to provide "study guides" that were really prep books for college course equivalence exams such as the clep test. I personally don't have issues with credit by exam, honestly if you can do the book work on your own and pass the final what is the difference between that and sitting in a class. Excelsior is the one I believe was more common and the format for that is 1. Enroll and pay tuition 2. Sign up for classes and get your course materials. 3. When you feel you are prepared take the credit exam at one of their approved test centers. 4. Pass the exam get the course credit In the case of their Medic to online program they were waiving a lot of the clinical hours secondary to on the job experience. That is why only it is a medic to RN not EMT to RN program You did have to go at the end of the program for a 2 week clinical evaluation prior to being eligible to sit for your nursing boards. Not all states take RN's from online programs but you can usually establish in a state that does and then transfer into the state that does not.

I'm a 15 year vet from a small rural service. Our local hospital does have an ortho but no relief when he is out. I have used traction in the field about 7 times and put it on for transport on an ER pateint about 4 more. We're hospital based so occasionally have to help out with stuff in the ER. Specifically things like traction that they don't do in the ER. On every occasion that I have used a traction splint the patient's pain was drastically reduced. These have all benn isolated femur injuries. Rare I know but being a southern state Lots of outdoor activities here and more orthopedic injuries. One specific case was a 10 y/o girl in the ER she had been thrown from her horse no other injuries and severe pain. Pt had come in POV. She was high on the pain scale 8-9 sweating, tears, pale skin. My partner and I went and got a traction splint and we still have Hare's placed splint reduces deformity and the 10 y/o told me that the pain was now tolerable and she did not need medication. Don't get to use them much but when I do well worth it normally take an adult pt from needing 10 to 20 mg of morphine to 4-5mg for pain control and often no meds required at all.

My TC started requiring this about a year ago. I think it was one of those things we were supposed to be doing anyway just nobody was and the Heart finally noticed. But since you have to take the written and demonstrate skills anyway when I renew instructors they just get 2 cards no big deal.

World Point has one it's called instructor roster tool and costs $20us. IT will let you export to a database as well the $20 doesn't print cards that is the training center version. The CTC version is much more expensive, but does a lot more stuff. Unless you are running a CTC I'd stick with the cheap one.

I'm an instructor in Arkansas and we still teach I-85 I also go to the training commitee meetings and cancelling EMT-I cert was discussed and there is no plan to discontinue EMT-I cert at this time there is also no imediate plan to change to the 99 standard either. The problem is there aren't many employment opportunities for I's in AR. If you check the Division's website there is a list of all training sites in AR http://www.healthyarkansas.com/ems/ems_p3.html#Training