CentreLearn Scheduled Trainings and Workshops for June 2012

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Introduction to CentreLearn

Geared towards Administrators who have had little to no training on CentreLearn, this webinar provides a basic overview of the LMS. In this training session, we walk through a typical “Day in the Life” of a CentreLearn Admin, demonstrating some common day-to-day tasks that most administrators perform.  Topics include basic navigation of CentreLearn, common administrative tasks, most effective time saver tools, and how to receive support and additional training.

Scheduled Dates:

Thu, Jun 7, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/269776041

Mon, Jun 18, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT  - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/830759897

Tue, Jun 26, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT   -  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/401022272

Compliance Guard Overview

This training session will provide an overview of CentreLearn Compliance Guard. In this training, we will cover an overview of Compliance Guard components, understanding how to manage User Certifications and Cards, and understanding how to enter External CE Records.

Scheduled Dates:

Tue, Jun 5, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT  - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/948153193

CentreLearn Administrator Workshop – Managing Groups and Users

This training is for the administrator that is already familiar with the basic navigation of CentreLearn. Topics include: managing Groups and Users, course assignment, generating useful reports, understanding different administrative levels, and using communication tools.

Scheduled Dates:

Thu, Jun 14, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/363922153

Compliance Guard Workshop – External Records and Best Practices

This CentreLearn workshop will feature a more in-depth look at creating and managing External CE records as well as Best Practices for Compliance Guard.

Scheduled Dates:

Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT  - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/585634913

Please note, you must register for trainings.

Registration for all Trainings will close a half hour before the webinar start time.

In order to attend training, you must have an active CentreLearn account with the appropriate user level and privileges.

You may join us for as many or as few sessions as you'd like!

Is E-Learning Right for your Organization?

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Find out now with our Toolkit 

The Toolkit is a set of interactive tools, reports, and case studies to help your organization make the best decisions about online learning. Get your free Toolkit today: CentreLearn.com/ToolKit

New Course: Firefighter Rehab

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Course Addition to 24-7 Fire Catalog

Firefighting is an inherently dangerous profession, with physical and mental demands similar to, and often greater than, those faced by performance athletes. However, unlike athletes, firefighters have little opportunity to immediately prepare for these challenges before being called to action. Rehab allows firefighters to work more safely and effectively, with fewer mistakes and injuries. This program will explain the NFPA 1584 Standard and show how to integrate rehab into your department.

24-7 Fire Courses Delivered by CentreLearn 

24-7 Fire offers a dynamic, visual learning experience for firefighter, fire inspector, and fire officer development. The programs are technically correct, NFPA compliant, based on OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, and IFSTA materials, and other recognized standards and materials. With 24-7 Fire, delivered in the CentreLearn Learning Content Management System, you have total control over your training. The lessons are easy to use, implement, and track. Facilitator led classroom or self-paced online options mean training when you want it, where you want it. The scenario-based videos, fire service expert interviews, and skill demonstrations used throughout these programs will have your team ready for any challenge. Use 24-7 Fire titles alone, paired with other CentreLearn lessons or classroom materials, hands-on exercises, or in combination with your own uploaded content – the choice is yours.

Add 24-7 Fire to Your CentreLearn Package

To add 24-7 Fire courses to your CentreLearn package, or to learn how your department can use online education to Train Better and Spend Less, contact us or call 877-435-9309.

PHTLS Hybrid Course Instructor Feedback

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Learn at Your Own Pace

Michael Fraley, BS, EMT-P recently taught a PHTLS Hybrid course.

When asked about his first experience teaching a PHTLS Hybrid course Michael replied, “The PHTLS hybrid course went quite well. The students said they really enjoyed the online portion of the content. They liked doing it at their pace and listening to lectures prepared by the PHTLS committee.”

Learn more about the NAEMT PHTLS course and search for available hybrid courses in your region at the NAEMT PHTLS website. 

CentreLearn and EMS Week 2012

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CentreLearn's connections with Fire and EMS are deep. We have worked for small rural fire departments and large urban EMS providers. Some of us have children that are Fire and EMS professionals. While our appreciation for our friends and family in EMS is year round EMS Week 2012 has been an opportunity for us to attend and volunteer at EMS Week events in our communities.

Leslie Yates, Regional Account Manager for the Southeast, served lunch to the on duty personnel at Coastal Health Systems of Brevard earlier this week. Leslie shared, "I had great fun visiting with the crews, while sharing lunch with them and learning more about how they care for my community." The hospital owned ambulance service is CAAS accredited and active in the American Ambulance Association.

Coastal Health Systems personnel 

Coastal Health Systems personnel and CentreLearn's Leslie Yates

Coastal Health Systems fleet

Task - Group View Tab Now Available

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Need to see which Tasks are assigned to your groups?

View Task Assignments from the Group view tab. Simply select your group under the Administrate tab and click on the Tasks tab.

Add and remove tasks from this view as well.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this functionality.

New Course: Budgeting Basics for the Fire Officer

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Course Addition to 24-7 Fire Catalog

Budgeting skills are essential for officers at all levels. There is a growing recognition on the part of the public about the cost of fire protection. Those writing fire department budgets must be able to defend what the fire service does and why. Your budget starts with identifying the department's needs and available resources. Needs are determined by comparing services to how they help achieve the department's stated mission and goals.

24-7 Fire Courses Delivered by CentreLearn 

24-7 Fire offers a dynamic, visual learning experience for firefighter, fire inspector, and fire officer development. The programs are technically correct, NFPA compliant, based on OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, and IFSTA materials, and other recognized standards and materials. With 24-7 Fire, delivered in the CentreLearn Learning Content Management System, you have total control over your training. The lessons are easy to use, implement, and track. Facilitator led classroom or self-paced online options mean training when you want it, where you want it. The scenario-based videos, fire service expert interviews, and skill demonstrations used throughout these programs will have your team ready for any challenge. Use 24-7 Fire titles alone, paired with other CentreLearn lessons or classroom materials, hands-on exercises, or in combination with your own uploaded content – the choice is yours.

Add 24-7 Fire to Your CentreLearn Package

To add 24-7 Fire courses to your CentreLearn package, or to learn how your department can use online education to Train Better and Spend Less contact us, or call 877-435-9309.

Online Education Featured in EMS World Magazine

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I do most of my professional reading, including JEMS and EMS World magazines, 35,000 feet above the ground as fly to and from customer locations and conferences. During a recent trip, these articles with an online education connection caught my eye:

Bringing PHTLS Skills to Rural Providers and Beyond with an online package of continuing education courses or a hybrid PHTLS course.

LMA Supreme is the Mask of Choice in Phoenix. Remember product training videos are great content for streaming from a learning management system which allows you to track user completion.

EMS World is also offering an online education opportunity, with CE credit sponsored by ZOLL Medical. Watch the video and take the test on CPR Quality.

Finally, there was a great article about Why We Need Safety Training, in the April issue. Although the NAEMT safety course is currently a classroom course, CentreLearn was pleased to work on the curriculum and instructional design of the safety course.

Webinar: Beyond the Online and Into the Classroom

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

In this encore presentation from our 2012 Administrator's Train Better Conference, I will discuss some of the many ways that online learning can be incorporated into traditional classroom training. The webinar objectives include:

• Describe applications of CentreLearn for classroom support and course record keeping 
• Discuss features for classroom support and course record keeping 
• Answer questions about using CentreLearn for classroom support and course record keeping 

Register now for Beyond the Online and Into the Classroom webinar

Note: please register now. Registration will close a half hour before the webinar start time.

New Task Property - Expiration Date

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Tired of manually un-assigning tasks from your groups to prevent new users from being bombarded by old assignments? CentreLearn’s newest tasking functionality provides you with the ability to set a task expiration date. Not only will this new feature remove the assignment from your user’s task list, but it ceases any email notifications you have set up for the task as well. The Task Expiration Date feature keeps your user’s task view clean while maintaining full task reporting capabilities for you.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this functionality.

New Client Announcement: Exmed

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CentreLearn is pleased to welcome new client Exmed.

Exmed is an independent provider of expert medical support, healthcare training and medical equipment supplies for organizations and individuals operating in remote and hostile environments around the world. For more information see: www.exmed.co.uk

Current on-going deployments for operational personnel and training include:

• Iraq
• Afghanistan
• Somalia
• Kenya
• Congo
• Tunisia
• United Kingdom
• Galapagos Islands
• Dubai 
• ... and many more

Jamie Todd, the Exmed Clinical Education Manager, explains that Exmed selected CentreLearn because, "We were looking for a provider to host our ambitious plans for a global CPD/CE/CME system for our operational staff, corporate clients and students. After contacting many organizations in various countries, we were from the onset impressed by the design, operation, and customer support provided by CentreLearn, who quickly then became our partner of choice." 

Connect with Exmed and learn more:

• Website: www.exmed.co.uk
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/exmedglobal

New Course: Elevator Safety Response Awareness

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Course Addition to 24-7 Fire Catalog

Stalled elevators present a unique challenge and can sometimes pose a serious risk to firefighters. Identifying these challenges and the risk involved in both hydraulic and traction elevator rescues can help firefighters perform in a more safe, effective, and efficient manner during an emergency operation. Proper preparation is the key to avoiding costly mistakes to firefighters and civilians involved in elevator emergencies.

24-7 Fire Courses Delivered by CentreLearn 

24-7 Fire offers a dynamic, visual learning experience for firefighter, fire inspector, and fire officer development. The programs are technically correct, NFPA compliant, based on OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, and IFSTA materials, and other recognized standards and materials. With 24-7 Fire, delivered in the CentreLearn Learning Content Management System, you have total control over your training. The lessons are easy to use, implement, and track. Facilitator led classroom or self-paced online options mean training when you want it, where you want it. The scenario-based videos, fire service expert interviews, and skill demonstrations used throughout these programs will have your team ready for any challenge. Use 24-7 Fire titles alone, paired with other CentreLearn lessons or classroom materials, hands-on exercises, or in combination with your own uploaded content – the choice is yours.

Add 24-7 Fire to Your CentreLearn Package

To add 24-7 Fire courses to your CentreLearn package, or to learn how your department can use online education to Train Better and Spend Less contact us, or call 877-435-9309.

CentreLearn Webinar: Lessons From Baghdad ER

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Please join us, Today, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Dr. Todd Baker, MD, FACEP, will describe the techniques his team utilized to save lives on a daily basis in the world's premier combat hospital during the height of the troop surge in Baghdad, Iraq. He will also describe interesting cases from his tour, and will feature a question and answer session with viewers.

Objectives:

1. Discuss pathophysiology of trauma 
2. Discuss changes in trauma care over the past 5 years 
3. Discuss parameters for immediate decision making 
4. Discuss hemodynamics and hypovolemic resuscitation 
5. Discuss the role of blood products in the treatment of the trauma patient 

A limited number of seats are still available. Reserve your Webinar seat now.

About Dr. Baker:
There's emergency medicine, and there's emergency medicine in a war zone. Dr. Todd Baker spent 15 months as Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Army support hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Dr. Baker graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences with a medical doctorate in May 2001. He trained in emergency medicine at Fort Hood, TX from 2001 to 2004. After completing his residency in July 2004, he was assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, LA. He later transitioned to Fort Lewis and joined the emergency medicine residency program at Madigan Army Medical Center, both in Tacoma, WA, in 2006.

Shortly after being chosen as "Teaching Staff of the Year" by the emergency medicine residents, he was assigned to deploy to Iraq with the 86th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Campbell, KY in October 2007.

Dr. Baker earned the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge for his service in Iraq. After almost 8 years on active duty, he separated from the U.S. Army at the rank of Major and now serves as co-medical director of the emergency department at Skaggs Regional Medical Center in Branson, MO.

Dr. Baker is the author of Baghdad ER: Fifteen Minutes, a chronicle of the 15 months he served as the Chief Emergency Physician of the U.S. Army's combat support hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.

"Pending" Tasks

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We receive a lot of feedback from Administrators that want to set up monthly training tasks well before the actual task assignment day. Some Administrators even schedule a year’s worth of tasks at a single time, but do not want their users to work ahead on the tasks.

A user can now view any upcoming tasks under their All Tasks tab, but they cannot access the pending tasks. The Select tab has been greyed out.

This new feature, pending tasks, allows Administrators to maintain their training schedule while managing their time in the system more efficiently.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this functionality.

In the Field: CentreLearn Official Learning Partner for Pinnacle EMS 2012

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How will coming changes in EMS system design affect you? How are leaders like you meeting ever-increasing demands for operational performance? What emerging workforce issues could you face in the next year or two? At the Pinnacle EMS Leadership Forum, now in its 7th year, you'll discover results-focused strategies and tools you can implement in your organization right away.

Please review the complete Pinnacle program at http://www.pinnacle-ems.com. You'll see example after example of the critical information and ideas you'll get at Pinnacle, directly from the nation's leading innovators.

CentreLearn is proud to be the Official Learning Partner of the Pinnacle EMS Leadership Forum held in Colorado Springs, July 16-20, 2012. We'll be in the exhibit area starting Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon.

We hope to see you in Colorado!

New Course: Breaching Masonry Walls Basics

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Course Addition to 24-7 Fire Catalog

Breaching walls is a skill taught during basic firefighter training as a way to search for hidden fires and perform self-rescue through wood-framed construction covered in drywall. Because of the complexity and time consuming nature of breaching a masonry wall, it is rarely used as a tactic on the fireground. However, breaching a masonry wall serves many purposes, including the creation of ingress and egress points as well as facilitating civilian and firefighter rescue operations.

24-7 Fire Courses Delivered by CentreLearn 

24-7 Fire offers a dynamic, visual learning experience for firefighter, fire inspector, and fire officer development. The programs are technically correct, NFPA compliant, based on OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, and IFSTA materials, and other recognized standards and materials. With 24-7 Fire, delivered in the CentreLearn Learning Content Management System, you have total control over your training. The lessons are easy to use, implement, and track. Facilitator led classroom or self-paced online options mean training when you want it, where you want it. The scenario-based videos, fire service expert interviews, and skill demonstrations used throughout these programs will have your team ready for any challenge. Use 24-7 Fire titles alone, paired with other CentreLearn lessons or classroom materials, hands-on exercises, or in combination with your own uploaded content – the choice is yours.

Add 24-7 Fire to Your CentreLearn Package

To add 24-7 Fire courses to your CentreLearn package, or to learn how your department can use online education to Train Better and Spend Less contact us, or call 877-435-9309.

Most Certificates Earned: CentreLearn CE Courses in 1st Quarter of 2012

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As I consider new course titles to add to the continuing education library and existing courses to update, I look at the certificate completion records for CentreLearn online training courses for EMTs, paramedics, and firefighters.

During the 1st Quarter of 2012, as many users earned their final continuing education credits for their NREMT re-certification, these courses had the most certificates earned.

ALS Continuing Education Courses 

1. Pediatric Assessment Part 1 
2. Allergic Reaction Management 
3. Acute Coronary Syndrome 
4. Drug Seeking Behavior 
5. Shock and Shock Management 

BLS Continuing Education Courses

1. Animal Bites 
2. Emergency Childbirth 
3. Shock and Shock Management 
4. Pediatric Assessment Part 1 
5. Ethics for the EMS Provider 

Workplace Health and Safety Courses

1. Stress in the Workplace 
2. Functional Physical Fitness 
3. Lifting and Back Safety 
4. Slips, Trips, and Falls 
5. Bloodborne Pathogens 

Firefighter Continuing Education Courses

1. HazMat Incident Response 
2. Carbon Monoxide 
3. School Fire and Life Safety Inspection 
4. Thermal Imaging Cameras 
5. Driving Safety 

View the complete CentreLearn course catalog of continuing education courses for EMTs, paramedics, and firefighters.

Have you taken any of these courses? Which was your favorite? Why has your organization chosen CentreLearn to meet its online training and education needs?

Train Better Memo: May 2012

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CentreLearn Train Better Memo May 2012

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CentreLearn Announces Integration with CE Broker

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CentreLearn Solutions, LLC announces to Florida CentreLearn organizations that CentreLearn is now integrated with CE Broker. As of May 2, 2012, all CentreLearn course continuing education completion records are automatically reported to CE Broker every night.

CentreLearn President, Jason Paluck, stated, "We are glad to implement this feature that many of our Florida fire departments and EMS agencies have requested." Mr. Paluck continued "CentreLearn believes training officers can and should use a web based learning management system to make online training easy and streamline record keeping."

If your organization is in Florida, contact us to learn more about how you can use CentreLearn to deliver online training, track all training activities, and report training completion records to CE Broker. 

Tasking just got easier!

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Need to assign multiple courses? Stumbling with that “control + click” method? No need to stress any further! As a CentreLearn Administrator you now have the ability to select your courses using a check box. And for even easier navigation, your Offline and Online courses are marked with clear headings and grouped together.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this functionality.