This past year has been busy over at the ProTrainings offices. Thanks to you, we were able to train and certify more than 84,000 people this year alone. With the beginning of a new year, we wanted to take a look back at 2011 and let you know what is being planned for 2012. We would also like to offer you the opportunity to make your voice heard by responding to our survey and letting us know what you would like to see us build this year. We care about your feedback and will read every suggestion we receive.
Website enhancements
The programming team has been especially busy. Some of the top, new features that were added this past year include: subtitles for the ProCPR program, allowing you to read along if it is too noisy to hear or for those who are hearing impaired; a mobile version of the website, which is more convenient for signing up and watching videos; and a redesigned training and test experience that are less distracting and help to reinforce learning in the areas you are the weakest. We also listened to your feedback and randomized the test questions, meaning you will never get exactly the same test twice.
Want to keep up with us on your mobile device? Google Currents is a news aggregation application that you can get for any Android or iOS devices including any Android phone and most Android tablets. It’s also available on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a magazine style reader that you can use to follow your favorite news sources.
We’ve added the ProCPR Blog to Google Currents, so if you search ProCPR, you’ll find it. With this, you can keep up to date with our company and what we’re doing as we continue to improve CPR and other health care related training programs.
We’re currently busy planning our projects for this year, and we have a few pretty big things on the horizon. Keep up with us and stay on the cutting edge with our announcements.
Use this link in your mobile browser, and you’ll be prompted to add the ProCPR Blog to your Google Currents.
Creating the new introduction video for our content was a fun experience, and required the help of a good friend of mine that composes music. It started out as a way to simplify the number of videos that we would need to create.
We have videos that we serve that are unique to different programs that we offer. We also have videos that are required as parts of multiple training programs. We used to have introductions that were particular to the program that people were on. That became a problem when we either had to create a duplicate version of the same video with a different introduction, or we could simply reuse the same video with a different video introduction and confuse people.
What I decided to do was to create a single introduction that could be applied to all of the videos that we create for the company sites. I assembled a couple of versions of the introduction. One runs for six seconds and only plays on the first video of each training course. The other runs only two seconds and appears on the rest of the videos so that it’s there for branding, but doesn’t get in the way.
After I created the graphics, I knew that I would need sound to go with it. I am good at video production, but sound production is not a specialty of mine. I know a number of people that write music, so I went to one of my friends to come up with a soundtrack for each of these intros, a composer named Teddy Blass. What he came up with matched up perfectly with the video content, and gives the video a professional feel that we were looking for. Plus, if you’re on a computer with more bass, you can hear a heartbeat in the background.
We’re all over the social networks, and we’d like you to join us there. Recently, Google+ added pages for business, and we’ve created a few that we’d like you to add, if you are part of that network. Google+ is a new social network that is kind of a combination of Facebook and Twitter, and includes games such as Angry Birds. It’s only about six or so months old, so it’s much smaller than either Facebook or Twitter. We’re monitoring all three places for your questions, though, so feel free to get in touch with us with them.
“It must become a moral obligation and a social expectation that bystanders will perform CPR when they witness cardiac arrest,” said a declaration from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. The CAEP is the Canadian national voice in emergency medicine, and develops standards and guidelines in this field.
The CAEP called on governments to implement mandatory CPR education in high school, insisting that the process should be a pre-requisite for graduation.
Companies that offer CPR education and Canadians that sign up for training should receive a 100 per cent tax rebate to cover the expense, the report also suggested.
Recent discussions with behavioral health providers around the country reveal significant cutbacks in state and federal funding.
In most instances of cost-cutting efforts, training staff is often compromised in quality or eliminated entirely.
One employer was thrilled to identify a provider such as ProTrainings.com that significantly reduced training budgets, yet feedback from staff was more positive about the quality of the instruction than ever before. This person indicated they were spending over $60.00 per person for CPR and first aid certification and were compensating staff for over six hours of labor time. Both issues were reduced to one-third the original amount.
Learn more about how our group program can save your company time and money while boosting the quality of training. Visit our Group Programs page today.
What we hear from our clients daily revolves around two key points:
1. Must I have staff trained every year? Time and money are in short supply.
2. May I have my staff certify every year? Two years between certifications is too long to retain proper skills.
Unless your state mandates annual training, there are some providers that may adjust the certification cycle between one or two years depending on your preference or requirement. Studies indicate that if CPR is not used or reviewed every 13 weeks (give or take), vital information and the confidence to respond to a crisis is greatly diminished.*
The point is even once a year is too long between certifications, thus frequent review of the material becomes more critical. ProTrainings.com is one provider that offers weekly video refreshers by email after certification to ensure better results and more confidence regardless of the certification timeline. Employers now have the best of both worlds, frequent review with a longer time between certifications.
Employers without internal training centers are turning more to accredited providers of web-based learning in these areas.
ProTrainings.com offers accredited group programs that allow employees to train in their location eliminating travel expenses and loss of productivity.
Time to shine the spotlight on one of our customer support specialists. Not only does he work tirelessly to ensure that our customers receive the best quality care, in his spare time he enjoys the thrill of high speed racing.
“My family has always shared a love of racing.”
This love of racing is shared with his wife, and they enjoy all forms of racing with all of the adrenaline fueled driving that comes with it. The chance of a lifetime came last week that gave him the opportunity to feed his need for speed. It was at the local drag racing strip, where he watched his friends race their souped up Chevy, when he was given a chance to drive on a race track.
Now available in our First Aid products store: Automated External Defibrilators (AED). We’re very excited to be able to offer AEDs for you and your company. We’ve been working on making them available to you for a while.
Now you can make sure that you have everything you need to help provide the best care possible before healthcare professionals arrive on the scene to take over.
We offer Zoll and HeartSine AEDs, Pads, Cabinets and Mounting Brackets for your convenience.
This past year has been busy over at the ProTrainings offices. Thanks to you, we were able to train and certify more than 84,000 people this year alone. With the beginning of a new year, we wanted to take a look back at 2011 and let you know what is being planned for 2012. We would also like to offer you the opportunity to make your voice heard by responding to our survey and letting us know what you would like to see us build this year. We care about your feedback and will read every suggestion we receive.
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