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Southwest Ambulance Medics and RN's Receive Critical Care Transport Training (Mesa, AZ) Twenty-four Paramedics and Registered Nurses working in Southwest Ambulance’s Interfacility (pre-scheduled transport) division are currently training to become nationally credentialed Critical Care Transport specialists.
This past April, 24 Southwest Ambulance employees were the first to take the 84-hour course. Southwest Ambulance is the first and only ground ambulance agency in Arizona to conduct this highly specialized training, and is doing so at no expense for its employees. “Traditional Paramedic training focuses on the skills necessary to care for patients who need emergency medical services (EMS), often after someone calls 9-1-1,” said Barbara Aehlert, RN, Director of Field Training for Southwest Ambulance. This specialized Critical Care Transport certification provides our interfacility paramedics with additional knowledge about managing a different type of patient – a critically ill individual who is already a patient in a hospital, specialty referral center, or extended care facility, that requires transport to another medical facility.” “The course also provides our nurses, who are already familiar with managing critical patients within a hospital, with additional knowledge pertaining to functioning outside the hospital environment and in an ambulance,” Aehlert concluded. The Critical Care Transport course helps to bridge the gap between prehospital and hospital care, providing participants with an understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of hospital procedures and equipment, and developing the skills to maintain the stability of hospital equipment and procedures during transport. At the conclusion of the course, successful participants are specialized healthcare professional who understand both aspects of patient care, and use that understanding to provide the highest level of care to critical patients during transport. Additional descriptions and details of the program can be found at: http://ehs.umbc.edu/CE/CCEMT-P/. The course is held at the Southwest Ambulance campus and taught by instructors from Central Arizona College, who holds the sole license to provide the CCEMTP course in Arizona. The course is in conjunction with the Department of Health Services at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), an Honors University in Maryland. Before Southwest Ambulance employees may take the Critical Care Transport specialist course, they must hold current certifications in BLS, ACLS, BTLS, PHTLS, TNCC, ITLS, or TNATC, and PALS, PEPP, ENPC or PPC.
Josh Weiss
Public Information Officer
Southwest Ambulance
Cell: 602-739-0546
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