Our guest panelist for this educator webinar is Dan Batsie, Education Director for Atlantic Partners in Bangor, Maine and Department chair of Emergency Medical Services at Eastern Maine Community College
Stress in critical situations impacts the ability to think, perform and react, but rarely is it ever discussed in the classroom. Conversely, most EMS practitioners learned to manage their worst situations through their own failures.
What if there was a way to provide new practitioners the tools to manage the effects of stress and improve performance as they gained experience? What if we could prepare them not to learn through failure, but through a carefully designed plan to ready the new provider for the rigors ahead?
In this webinar Dan will examine how stress, fear and anxiety impact human physiology and the EMS practitioner’s ability to make decisions and perform. More importantly, we will describe how education can inoculate students from the effects of stress and provide key classroom strategies to better prepare students for the realities of real world EMS.
Dan Batsie has been involved in emergency medical services for over 25 years. He began his career as a paramedic in Syracuse, NY and later as a paramedic firefighter in Portland, Maine. He has been an EMS educator since 1994 and is currently the Education Director for Atlantic Partners EMS in Bangor, Maine. He serves as department chair of Emergency Medical Services at Eastern Maine Community College and is an adjunct faculty member in the Kennebec Valley Community College Paramedic Program. Dan is also the author of two EMS textbooks, a contributing author for several other EMS texts and has published numerous journal articles.