When a crime is committed, the whole city suffers. The main speaker was Neil Stevens of the New Jersey Division of Mental Health's Disaster and Terrorism Branch. Emphasizing the need to restore hope amid difficult circumstances, Stevens provided the trainees with strategies for interacting with victims. Give subtle signs you are listening, Stevens told the audience. Ask questions sparingly.Focus on responding to what the person is saying or asking.Avoid expressions of approval or disapproval. Three friends the Rev. Jerry Wilder Jr. of Patersons Resurrection Kingdom Ministries, the Rev. James
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The Suttons Bay High School graduate is currently pursuing his masters degree in physical geography at Michigan State University. This is his third summer working in isolated areas of Alaska. He earned Wilderness First Responder certification at Northern Michigan University in 2013. He encountered only minor medical issues in the field, but understands that preparedness matters. Im grateful for the skills given the nature of what we do, Queen said. Queens father took notice and realized the value in bringing wilderness medical training to the Traverse City area. The northern Michigan environment
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"Had the RCMP complied with labour code requirements, our position is that at least some of the deaths and injuries could have been avoided," prosecutor Paul Adams told the Moncton provincial court during opening statements. He said the officers were outgunned, bringing pistols and shotguns to a lopsided gun fight against more accurate and more powerful weapons used by Justin Bourque during his shooting rampage. Seven of the officers were being trained to use six patrol carbines in Gagetownonly a few days earlier, but neither the officers, nor the guns were in Moncton on the day of the shootings,
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to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, April 24, at La Salle County Health Department, 717 E. Etna Road, Ottawa. A dozen spots are available per class. The training is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrive. Students will learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken
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So far, Human Resources Management course has been held in Salalah and Marketing course has been held in Muscat, said a statement from the company. These courses were attended by 41 participants from government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the public sector and the private sector. The courses were facilitated by SDO and taught by training experts from the relevant fields, it said. Shell Professional Courses initiative includes a number of courses that target NGOs, the public sector, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and other members of the public. These courses have been designed
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He earned Wilderness First Responder certification in 2013, and now his dad is heading up Northwestern Michigan Colleges two-day Wilderness First Aid course and five-day Wilderness First Responder certification sessions offered this spring. Courses involve online, indoor and outdoor training. featured NMC offers wilderness first aid training BY SALLY BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle Mar 30, 2017 Special to the Record-Eagle Clayton Queen at a field site along the Ivishack River, North Slope, Alaska. The Suttons Bay High School graduate is currently pursuing his masters degree in physical g
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"Plume" is defined in the bill as noxious airborne contaminants generated as by-products of the use of energy-based devices, electrosurgical devices, electrocautery devices or mechanical tools during surgical, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. If it becomes law, the bill would require the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to convene an advisory committee to develop a regulation requiring a health facility to evacuate or remove plume through the use of a plume scavenging system in all settings that employ techniques that involve the creation of plume by June 1, 2018. The bill specifies
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In Gloucester, an estimated 40 captains each left a recent training session with two four-milligram doses of the antidote, enough to revive nearly every overdose victim. The organization and its collaborating groups are thinking big: They hope to distribute Narcan to every commercial fishing vessel in the state. More training is being considered for Scituate, Plymouth, Chatham, and elsewhere. We believed it was time to bring it out. The push to bring Narcan to the fishing fleet is the latest move to expand its availability as the region fights back against the opioid epidemic. An increasing
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