Course Catalog

Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS)

Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS) provides a variety of educational resources designed specifically for rural health care teams to meet their emergency medical training needs. Through its core Provider Course and its additional learning labs and modules, CALS teaches an effective approach to the care of critically ill/injured patients manifesting a wide range of emergencies including trauma, cardiac, strokes, pediatric, OB, neonatal, airway compromise, and sepsis. The course is most typically taught in the rural or remote facility, where resources are limited. More than 96% of participants report that taking the CALS course enhanced their skills, confidence and teamwork abilities, leaving them better prepared to treat critically ill or injured patients.

Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS) - Hosted by Northeast Montana STAT Air Ambulance Cooperative (Glasgow, MT)

Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS) provides a variety of educational resources designed specifically for rural health care teams to meet their emergency medical training needs. Through its core Provider Course and its additional learning labs and modules, CALS teaches an effective approach to the care of critically ill/injured patients manifesting a wide range of emergencies including trauma, cardiac, strokes, pediatric, OB, neonatal, airway compromise, and sepsis. The course is most typically taught in the rural or remote facility, where resources are limited. More than 96% of participants report that taking the CALS course enhanced their skills, confidence and teamwork abilities, leaving them better prepared to treat critically ill or injured patients.

Safe Sitter ®

Safe Sitter® began because of a tragedy: the accidental death of a nurse’s young child while in the care of an adult babysitter.Patricia A. Keener, M.D. recognized the vulnerability of young children when cared for by unprepared providers, so she created a program to teach young teens how to be better, safer babysitters. For more than 35 years, Safe Sitter® has been a leader in providing life skills, safety skills, and child care training for youth. Now a national nonprofit organization with over 900 Registered Providers in all 50 states, Safe Sitter® continues to help build safer communities by providing youth with the skills they need to be safe while home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting.Offer Safe Sitter® classes in your community! Safe Sitter® is a turn-key program that is easy to add to your existing offerings, and the medically accurate course content follows guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association.

Setting Others for Success!

The workshop is designed for those who work in support positions in any industry. Business professionals and team members of all levels, back office support teams and front line support teams will benefit from this course.

Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)

Every second counts when stabilizing life-threatening trauma cases. This course, taught by qualified emergency nurses, prepares you with the knowledge, critical thinking skills and hands-on training needed to provide high-quality, trauma nursing care. After completing this course, you will be able to properly assess and implement evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for your patients.Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll learn:The latest trauma nursing practice recommendations Systematic assessment and application of careRapid identification of life-threatening injuries

Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)

Like many areas across the country, rural and critical access hospitals in eastern Montana faced a shortage of registered nurses (RNs). Montana Health Network (MHN) implemented a program to recruit nursing students to work at rural hospitals as Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP), with the hope that these students will return to the hospitals after graduation. The program offered a loan forgiveness program to RN students who returned to an MHN member hospital and worked for at least two years after graduating from nursing school. The program started in 2009. In 2005, the Montana Board of Nursing adopted rules that allow nursing students to be employed as Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAPs).