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EMS Training

Initial Certification Courses Re-certification Courses

Initial Certification Courses

Medical Response Technician (M.R.T.) Course

HOWSER has no MRT course openings at this time.

Emergency Medical Technician (E.M.T.) Course

HOWSER has no EMT course openings at this time.

Emergency Medical Technician Bridge Course

HOWSER has no EMT course openings at this time.

Re-certification Courses

Emergency Medical Technician Refresher

HOWSER has no EMT refresher course openings at this time.

Medical Response Technician (M.R.T.) Refresher

Howser has no MRT refresher course openings at this time.

Continuing Education Credits (CEU’s) are offered for each course listed below. CEU’s are required to maintain National Registry Certification for both Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics.

Each course, unless specified, is one to two hours in length and costs range from $175 - $ 300 per course. Cost is based on location and materials required. To schedule a Continuing Education Course for your agency or to find a course near you click here or contact our office.

Blood Borne Pathogen Review

Tired of the same of boring Blood Borne Pathogen lecture that seems to get longer and longer each year? Satisfy federal, state and local mandates by playing "Who wants to be a communicable disease!! Your members will find this class filled with laughter and factual information.

Spanish for First Responders

This sixteen-hour course will train first responders to obtain paramount information from Spanish speaking patients and family members during a crisis situation. Learn how to obtain consent, interview a patient using SAMPLE and OPQRST and explain treatment procedures in Spanish.

Street Drugs 2001

Educate your membership on the availability, identity, usage and effects of today’s street drugs. This lecture will include up to date information on all of today’s popular street drugs including signs and symptoms of abuse. This course is a must for all pre hospital care providers!

Treating Our Future

Pediatric emergencies are one of the most stressful calls a pre hospital care provider must respond to. This course takes the fear out of pediatric emergencies, allowing the care providers to look past the emotion and the patient's ailment and focus on the cause and treatment of your little patients medical condition.

Documentation Review

This subject area is often over looked when preparing monthly training schedules because all find this topic boring, dull and consider it a previously mastered skill. While all public safety professionals understand that it is paramount for pre-hospital care providers to prepare and produce well-written pre hospital care reports we must also realize that documentation skills must be reinforced. Howser’s "Who Wants to be an Anal Retentive Report Writer" interactive game reinforces report-writing skills and also reviews specific quality control issues facing your agency.

Grandma and Grandpa 101

Geriatric patients are unique and require an advanced level of training to fully understand all medical issues affecting the elderly today. This course explores the complex medical issues facing the elderly community including geriatric pharmacology.

EMS and the Crime Scene

What information can EMS providers disclose to the police; what is confidential? EMS providers are not only dispatched to crime scenes but may be providing treatment at a scene that may be declared a crime scene after care is rendered. Test your memory of the scene and learn how to provide care while not destroying valuable evidence.

Medical Intervention Review

Oxygen, Glucose, Epinephrine, Activated Charcoal & Nitroglycerin; EMS professionals can administer them but do we really understand them. Refresh your knowledge of pharmacology and reexamine the indications, contra indications, effects and side of effects of these powerful tools in the EMS provider’s toolbox.

Improving Dispatch and Field Personnel Relations

Ever feel your dispatchers just don’t get it? That they are clueless on what goes on at an EMS scene? Do your dispatchers ever think that you don’t understand their job? Well this class allows both field and dispatch personnel to explore each other’s roles. Better understanding of each other’s professional responsibilities and a better working relationship is obtained through comedic skits, drawings and interactive games.

The Med Patch and You

Are you proud of your med patches? Are they clear, concise and organized? Does your med patch truly represent the skilled EMS provider that you are? If not this class is for you. Learn the skills of obtaining the correct information required for a med patch. Learn how to organize your patient’s information into a smooth flowing, informational masterpiece of verbal communication. Watching some interesting movie clips, predicting injures and then reporting on them achieve class objectives!!

Blood Guts and Gore

Trauma, Trauma Trauma. Some love it while others hate the sight of blood. No matter which type of "Trauma Tech" you are we often do not see patients with multi system trauma often. Learn how to use vital signs and physical signs to predict and treat severe internal injuries. From a broken tow to a severe multi system trauma, this course reviews patient care for all traumatic injuries.

The EMS Challenge

This Jeopardy Style game is based on all the Modules of the Department of Transportations National Standard Curriculum. This course allows your agency to find your personnel’s weaknesses so you may develop a training program to improve their skills and knowledge base. Anything is possible in this game of question and answer, odd human sound effects and practical daily doubles!!

Tricks of the Trade

Ever Use a KED vest to splint a hip fracture? Do you find back boarding a standing person to be difficult? Hare Traction Splinting got you down? Learn tricks of the trade from our staff who have worked both in the field and in busy trauma centers. This course is hands on so get ready to work and learn new, innovative and efficient ways to provide patient treatment.