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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2009 10:06:16 GMT
What training have you received and who delivered it?
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Post by ynot1109 on Apr 3, 2009 20:06:54 GMT
We recieved an initial 3day training course delivered by SJA. Since then our group meets one night every fortnight to practise our skills, discuss jobs etc and genrally support each other. We have a really good working relationship with our LAS collegues and have had training nights taken by Paramedic team leaders on several occasions. Hope this helps
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Post by the welsh one on Apr 8, 2009 15:10:56 GMT
have to say the same as ynot1109 as we are both in the same group, the las Paramedic team leaders are great and do surport our training nights
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Post by annandamide on Apr 14, 2009 23:57:08 GMT
I had initial training from ambulance service, a couple of days, then assessment. We are lucky to have a resident paramedic in our group who attends our monthly get togethers voluntarily and gives us on-going training. We then have yearly assessments. We run as a separate entity from St Johns, but some of our members are members of that too. We are also supported by the area coordinator of CFRs from Ambulance service.
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Post by gosportcfr on Apr 21, 2009 7:44:43 GMT
Our scheme began as an initiative of gosport Borough council, where we all work, so we all attended a 4 day first Aid at work course. Having recieved that certificate we recieved further training from SCAS in use of defib, BVM, O2 etc to qualify as CFR's. That is basically all the official training we have had. However, we have a 6 monthly requal session where we do a half day training session on subjects of our choice, with someone from SCAS, and we have also built quite a good relationship with the crews at the local station who are more than happy for us to Observe with them when ever we want, which is great hands on training.
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Post by medatrain999 on Apr 21, 2009 16:01:03 GMT
How would people feel about just two levels of CFR?? First Person On Scene Basic and FPOS Intermediate. Admittedly, there is a cost to all of this training, but (and a fairly good BUT for CFRs!), there is two standards (basic or intermediate) which makes it far easier and secondly, the CFR gets a NATIONALLY RECOGNISED QUALIFICATION.
Let us know your thoughts on this
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Post by the welsh one on Apr 21, 2009 17:32:51 GMT
this sounds good about the national qual. but with a cfr groups being diffarent with some sja some red cross we would we start and MONEY who pays ??
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Post by jd589 on Apr 25, 2009 19:45:11 GMT
Cost? We train all our CFR's either to FPOS Basic or Intermediate and apart from their time, (we even give them tea and biscuits), and their own lunch their is no cost to them. In our locality there are us two part time trainers along with our CFM (all service paid) and a small group of volunteer assistants. All the training accross the rest of the Trust area to FPOS standard,and in one locality, advanced level, is provided free to all CFR's. It does seem that every Trust is different, but I think from the Health Care Commision report that the FPOS 2 levels would be the expected standard across the UK eventually.
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Post by medatrain999 on Apr 28, 2009 22:00:43 GMT
I agree with you jd589... I think FPOS Intermediate SHOULD be the National standard. However, there are some Trusts which I can't help feel would stand in the way of it.
As a matter of interest, who pays for the FPOS training in your group?? The Trust or by fund-raising?? There is a cost to all IHCD training.
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Post by jd589 on Apr 30, 2009 21:13:00 GMT
The Trust covers all training costs across its Localities. Although as part of my localities training team, we have to raise funds or pursuede reps if we need more training equipment. At the moment we are talking with a local manufacturer with regards to providing a vehicle.
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Post by cannock61 on May 5, 2009 19:34:50 GMT
In Hereford and Worcester (now WMAS) we are trained to FPOS basic standard with add ons such as Blood pressure, Paeds resucitation, trauma, and one of the most useful "assisting the Paramedic". It is hoped we will get to advanced FPOS standard in the near future.
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Post by markw on May 12, 2009 13:14:34 GMT
In Devon we are trained by the Ambulance crews, Paramedics mainly but some Techs and EMA's joined in.
We covered basic first aid, cpr, use of the defib, dealing with children and babies, some basic understanding of the body and what does what!, dealing with open wounds and how to help the crews.
Because we were trained by the crews it gave us a great insight and we then 3rd manned with them to put it into practice and were assessed on the job.
The crews were brilliant and made us understand how valuable our role is.
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Post by boarder57 on May 16, 2009 17:16:43 GMT
In Scotland (South East), we have a two day FPOS training by the Ambulance Service and annual refresher training, supplied free of charge. The group initiates its own training with minimal support from the Ambulance Service, we tend to do this on a monthly basis.
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Post by nwfr on Jun 14, 2009 15:07:33 GMT
FPOS Inter for half of the CFRs including myself. However all new CFRs will be trained to a In-House lower standard.
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Post by bungle on Jun 15, 2009 11:42:33 GMT
In staffs we were trained over a year, once weekly for 3hrs. This training was delivered by a paramedic and was run along the amb tech ihcd syllabus. The schemes work very well and really come into their own in very remote area's. I think this scheme would be very usefull in any remote areas of the country. So i guess imsaying there should be a third qualification FPOS advanced. As ive previously said in another thread, it is very hard to get either ends of the spectrums to agree, i certainly would not want to see the schemes round here dumbed down, but could certainly understand how individuals trained to fpos basic would find our scheme daunting, all i can say is, it works and works well, with no incidents to note in its 8 or 9 year history.
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