Extreme Emergency Preparedness

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Mar 21

Yep! My go bag has tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, ABD pads and lots of gloves. All our AEDs have a bleeding control kit in them as well. am slowly getting CAT tourniquets into each of the teachers go bags as well...

k1p1ssk, BSN, RN · Mar 21

We are similar to @NutmeggeRN - Bleeding control kits on each floor of the building (wall mounted on ground floor and upper floor, in my office on the main level), 2 AEDs (one that is public access since our building is town owned), and every teacher go-bag has a CAT and ABD pads, and cotton rolls (like a stringless tampon) - would be OK for packing a puncture wound.

I haven't yet taught Stop the Bleed, but I'm meeting with the community outreach trooper from our local state police barracks next month to essentially learn the basics of teaching (becoming a STB instructor is free, FYI!) and we plan to implement this for willing staff/faculty next year. We have 3 STB training kits that our district bought with grant funds a few years back... If the district will pay for my time and the training itself, I'd definitely become a CPR instructor as well and begin offering that to staff as well... but that is slow going.

sergel02, BSN · Mar 22

My state (or maybe district) has CAT tourniquets by every AED. I don't think we've been trained on them though LOL. I did try one and THEY HURT....which is fine since it stops the blood.

I haven't looked into other emergency preparedness measures but it's a great topic to continue to explore.

k1p1ssk, BSN, RN · Mar 24

sergel02 said:

My state (or maybe district) has CAT tourniquets by every AED. I don't think we've been trained on them though LOL. I did try one and THEY HURT....which is fine since it stops the blood.

I haven't looked into other emergency preparedness measures but it's a great topic to continue to explore.

Our State Police gave us a list of their recommendations for classroom "Go Kits" (we call them Go Bags) and that was a big project for me last year...

NASN has an online CE program called School Emergency Triage Training (SETT). It's a good place to start if your district/school is trying to build an emergency response protocol.

sergel02, BSN · Mar 27

k1p1ssk said:

Our State Police gave us a list of their recommendations for classroom "Go Kits" (we call them Go Bags) and that was a big project for me last year...

NASN has an online CE program called School Emergency Triage Training (SETT). It's a good place to start if your district/school is trying to build an emergency response protocol.

Ooh when I become a member I'm going to see if I can take that class. Thanks for the tip!

edit: just looked at the price, and $90 is a little pricey for a short class but if the info is good it seems worth it.

k1p1ssk, BSN, RN · Mar 28

sergel02 said:

edit: just looked at the price, and $90 is a little pricey for a short class but if the info is good it seems worth it.

The manual download is HUGE which is probably why it costs so much - it's over 100 pages long, I'd estimate...

sergel02, BSN · Mar 28

k1p1ssk said:

The manual download is HUGE which is probably why it costs so much - it's over 100 pages long, I'd estimate...

I swear I never knew how much was under the umbrella of school nursing until I started the job. The NASN text book is like over 1200 pages.

Not that I'm complaining though, I like to keep learning and improving.

2cool4schoolRN85 · Mar 31

sergel02 said:

I swear I never knew how much was under the umbrella of school nursing until I started the job.

An understatement 🤣I feel the exact same way. Every year I find some new protocol or something that I'm like "huh, didn't know that I was supposed to be doing that."