Education Content
Appendix E lists multiple certification courses that could be used for transport-related outreach education efforts. Table 14.3 lists more detailed topics for consideration. Members of the transport team should be encouraged to become qualified instructors of national certification/resuscitation courses and to teach these whenever possible.
Transport team members should participate in the courses taught as community outreach. This may aid the transport team members in bedside teaching skills and confidence, an integral part of the educational process, and it should help maintain consistency in education.Not all education topics listed in Appendix E and Table 14.3 can be offered to every referring facility. However, even if a transport team does not provide the course, it can encourage participation in national courses. For specific topics, the team can make suggestions or defer to the topics the referring facility considers the most important. When presenting selected topics, team members can leave references, scripts, videos, or summaries that supplement the information presented. When the team provides a brief (1- to 4-hour), nursing-focused outreach education program, it is helpful to offer it more than once in 1 day to reach staff from different shifts.