TEMS Recruiting for a Performance Improvement and Education Coordinator
The Tidewater EMS Council is seeking a full-time highly qualified individual to lead the council's performance improvement program and supervise various educational activities. The coordinator performs, facilitates and encourages ongoing data collection and analysis to identify EMS performance improvement trends and assists in the development of corrective action plans and education to address shortfalls. The coordinator also supervises council-sponsored EMS training and testing activities and develops and implements related projects supporting the objectives of the council. Download the full position description. Apply with council's job application and current resume to include samples of work fulfilling the various requirements of the job. The application period closes September 26, 2017.
The Tidewater EMS Council, Inc. seeks proposals from qualified EMS educators, organizations and jurisdictions (“vendors”) to plan and conduct Category 1 EMS continuing education courses and/or EMS auxiliary courses throughout the Tidewater EMS region. The council intends to contract with one or more vendors or optionally employ individuals to plan and conduct these courses. Funding associated with this program is available for approved courses conducted between August 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
Diabetic care practices are often overlooked in EMS. Blood glucose testing can expose people to bloodborne viruses such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C Virus, and HIV when testing supplies and materials are used on multiple patients. Outbreaks of Hepatitis B infection associated with unsafe diabetes care have been identified with increasing regularity particularly is settings where individuals require assistance with monitoring their blood glucose levels and glucometers are used on multiple patients. EMS is one of these settings.
During a beautiful afternoon at Harbor Park in Norfolk on June 4, 2017, the Tidewater EMS Council presented eight regional EMS awards and a special lifetime achievement award. The awards presentation was part of the council's annual EMS family day at the ballpark attended by some 650 responders, dispatchers, emergency department staff and their families.
