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ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 1 of 11 Creative Contributions Instructor Guide to Unit Five: Disaster Medical part 2 1. The goal of this unit is to provide participants with steps to take appropriate sanitation measures to protect public health, perform head-to-toe patient assessments, to establish a medical treatment area, and employ basic first aid treatments for minor injury. 2. This is the content for Unit Five: a. Unit 4 Review 5 minutes b. Public Health Considerations 5 minutes c. Five functions of disaster medical 5 minutes d. Evaluate survivors with head to toe assessment 35 minutes e. Basic First Aid 70 minutes Unit five is scheduled for 2 hours. Time spent on each unit can be maneuvered by dropping content and referring to its placement in the take-home materials. This permits flexibility on the part of the instructor and encourages participants to question or discuss course matters. It also holds the instructor to the time limit for the unit without expecting participants to stay overtime or to have instructors who follow to give up their time. 3. Supplies needed for Unit Five: a. LCD projector b. Computer linked to LCD projector c. Computer disk containing Unit Five power point presentation d. Instructor Guide for Unit Five e. Participant’s Manual for CERT f. Medical treatment area; colored tarps or flags, splinting material, gloves, masks, basic medical supplies such as gauze, tape, triangle bandage, and documentation. 4. Instructional staffing requirements: Two instructors are required for this unit. Team teaching is encouraged as well as having a subject matter expert such as a nurse, firefighter, or doctor present to help address medical questions. 5. Creative Contributions In the column to the right of each of the slides in this unit, there is space to take notes on teaching techniques that are fun, funky, and innovative. Use the classroom time in this train-the-trainer course to share ideas on how to reach people with different learning styles. Seal good ideas, generate some yourself, and utilize other’s ideas as a foundation to develop new training techniques that benefit all course participants! ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 2 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 3 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 4 of 11 Creative Contributions Five: Triage, Treatment, Transport, Morgue, and Supply ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 5 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 6 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 7 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 8 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 9 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 10 of 11 Creative Contributions ---PAGE BREAK--- ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER UNIT FIVE DISASTER MEDICAL PART TWO Page 11 of 11 Creative Contributions Community Emergency Response Training 6. Announcements before the participants are dismissed: If your CERT class continues the same day, take your break and return to this classroom. Or If your CERT class continues another day (next week or next month) Your Homework Assignment is to read Unit Six: Search and Rescue.