After this year 2016 we can summarize that a total of 1 456 persons from 36 countries have participated in the standardized ETS Senior instructor course. This includes 156 new Senior instructors that was certified this year.
A new ETS Educator faculty was started in New Zealand and today we have over 80 Educators in 9 faculties that have the agreement of conducting their own Senior instructor courses.
The ETS Competence center have during this year
- developed specific requested in-hospital patients for the Emergency Department
- developed and valiadated new in-hospital patients for the Surgery Department
- developed and valiadated a new training set that can be used for training of the specific concerns that is related to the influx of emergency patients and the assessment of relatives. This set can be combined with the ETS Psychosocial set
These developments will be finalized during the first part of 2017.
The strategic decisions of next year developments have not yet been set. If you have ideas of new developments for ETS you can let us know by contacting us.
It is with great pleasure we see how ETS is spread around the world. This year we also had the pleasure of organizing an ETS pre-course together with Korean ETS Senior instructors at the International conference on Disaster Nursing held in Seoul in October.
The ETS faculty in New South Wales was in August part of an impressive large disaster response planning and training exercise in Sydney were ETS figurant cards was used in the field and when transported to hospitals were changed to ETS magnetic patients. If you have not read about this exercise it is described here >>>
We are very happy to work with and for all of you. It is thanks to all the dedicated ETS Senior instructors and Educator faculties that ETS is spreading and we like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for this year and looking forward to continue working together 2017!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Johan Hornwall Heléne Nilsson
Operational Manager Head of Education KMC
Emergo Train System Director of the ETS Competence center
