Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar

March 8, 2024 to March 9, 2024

The Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar is designed to meet the continuing education needs of emergency services clinicians in Western Maryland and the surrounding area. The large diversity of workshops offered at this year’s seminar include EMS, Nursing, Fire, and Dispatch. A strong inter-working relationship among public safety and health care clinicians is the key to the successful outcome of any incident. 

The program this year will feature a variety of pre-seminar workshops held Friday and ending with the all-day seminar on Saturday.  Some classroom spaces are limited in size, so please register early. 
 

Target Audience

Nurse

Learning Objectives

Learners will be able to describe the basic physics of chest tubes, tube management, and weaning.
Learners will be able to identify key aspects of side effects to consider when managing crush injuries. 
Learners will be able to recognize stroke warning signs, EMS protocols, emergency department treatment, medical and surgical management. 
Learners will increase their understanding of the interventions important to pre-hospital cardiac arrest survival and learn to implement ways to improve survival rates in their own community.
Learners will be able to build confidence in emergent treatment of an injured child and working with parents.
 

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 16.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 16.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/08/2024
Course expires: 
06/30/2024
Event starts: 
03/08/2024 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
03/09/2024 - 5:00pm EST

The Miltenberger Emergency Services Seminar is designed to meet the continuing education needs of emergency services clinicians in Western Maryland and the surrounding area. The large diversity of workshops offered at this year’s seminar include EMS, Nursing, Fire, and Dispatch. A strong inter-working relationship among public safety and health care clinicians is the key to the successful outcome of any incident. 

The program this year will feature a variety of pre-seminar workshops held Friday and ending with the all-day seminar on Saturday.  Some classroom spaces are limited in size, so please register early. 
 

Rocky Gap Casino Resort
Cumberland, MD
United States

Capt. Derek Crippen, Special Operations, Prince George’s County Fire/EMS, and Lt. Pat Monahan

Cathy Parks, MSN, RN, Director, Pediatric Emergency Department, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center; Maryland EMSC Faculty

Cynthia Wright-Johnson, MSN, RN; Lisa Wilson, EMT, EMS for Children, MIEMSS

Dr. Rameen Shafiei, DO, FACEP, Director of Emergency Medicine, UPMC Western Maryland

Elizabeth Wooster, PhD, MSN, MIEMSS Director of Trauma & Injury Specialty Care Program

EMSC Faculty and Pediatric EMS Champions

Faculty from the Maryland Resuscitation Academy

FF Hunter McCrobie, FF Brayden Pennington, FF Eli Crowe, FF Jeff Teter, Capt GT Parsons, BC Cody Pearce, DC Steve Grogg, and Chief Shannon Adams

Hani Alkhatib, MD, Interventional Cardiology, Medical Director, Structural Heart Program, UPMC Western Maryland

Janice Amabel Lee, MD, MSc, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, UPMC Western Maryland

Jennifer Anders, MD, FAAP, Associate State EMS Medical Director for Pediatrics, MIEMSS

Katie Donnelly, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Children's National Hospital, Medical Director, Safe Kids DC; Maryland EMSC Faculty

Kenny Barajas, DNP, RN, Chief of Health Service & Hospital Programs, MIEMSS

Kevin Hazzard, writer and former paramedic

Matthew D'Angelo, DNP, CRNA, MHPE, MSS, FAANA, Chief, Division of Nurse Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Mustafa M. Sidik, Region III Associate Coordinator, MIEMS

Pediatric Base Station Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Children's Center; Debra Skultety-Robinson DNP, RN, Pediatric Trauma/Burn Program Manager, Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Pete A. Kuhn, MSN, BSN, RN, CRNP, CEN, CPEN, UPMC Western Maryland

Raquel M. Forsythe, MD, FACS; Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine; Medical Director, Trauma Surgery; Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program - UPMC Presbyterian

Robby May, Ed.D, NRP

Robert Murray Jr., MS, NRP, Director for Sussex County EMS, DE

Sergeant W. B. Jansen, NREMT-P, FP-C, Special Operations Division-Tactical Medic/Flight Paramedic, Maryland State Police; Richard DeVore, Corporal/Flight Paramedic, Maryland Department of State Police Aviation Command

Showalter & Company, Inc.

Ted Delbridge, MD, MPH, MIEMSS Executive Director

Timothy P. Chizmar, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, State EMS Medical Director, MIEMSS

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 16.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 16.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 16.00 Attendance
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