will receive a substantial discount over the standard pricing. The training cur‐ riculum is modeled to meet FAA and CAMTS initial and recurrent education requirements. For initial training, indi‐ viduals receive 24/7 unlimited access to Z‐Coach for six months. Recurrent training provides three months access (with a fee that is a fraction of the ini‐ tial training) as often as the individual or their air medical program wishes. You can expect to spend about two hours to complete the Bronze level of
achievement in the Z‐Coach program, with many more strategies, tools, and resources available depending upon how much additional material you wish to learn and use. Employees and employers are provided with certifi‐ cates of completion to document com‐ pletion of the training. Z‐Coach is intended for anyone who performs shift work, including nurses, para‐ medics, physicians, communications specialists, office staff and pilots. For those programs that pay employ‐ ees to attend classroom‐based train‐ ing, you will likely see significant cost savings, especially for the recurrent training, which is very reasonably priced.
Is fatigue a problem in air medical operations? No question that it is. While improved schedules may eventu‐ ally offer some relief, operators are highly encouraged to develop and inte‐ grate improved fatigue and alertness education into their training programs.
The use of Z‐Coach to provide the tools to address the long‐standing, and per‐ haps underestimated, influence of fatigue on air medical operations seems to be a perfect fit for air medical transport providers, as well as for any other 24/7 operation where opera‐ tional safety is paramount and the risks cannot be completely eliminated. Details on enrolling in the program through NEMSPA can be found at
www.nemspa.org. EMS
Kent Johnson, Chief Pilot for Intermountain Life Flight in Salt Lake City, is the current president of the National EMS Pilots Association (NEMSPA). A fixed
wing pilot with more than 7,500 flight hours and 12 years experience in EMS operations, Kent can be reached at
kent.johnson@
imail.org.
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