team
teaching format
Each
presentation team includes a health care provider, EMS personnel,
and a law enforcement officer.
Health Care Provider
Physicians, nurses, health care providers, and
health educators are recruited from the local community to provide
medical expertise and share professional, and sometimes personal,
experiences with the students.
- Discusses the realities of the high incidence of
teen traffic fatalities and injuries
- Covers health-related consequences of
alcohol/drug use, driver distraction, and other risky behaviors
common in new teen drivers
- Discusses short- and long-term effects of
traumatic injury
Emergency Personnel
Certified emergency medical technicians, paramedics,
and fire/rescue personnel share expertise and first-hand accounts of
crash scene experiences. These team members are often the personnel
who attended to the victims of the local crashes depicted in the
scenarios and the images viewed by the students in the localized Power
Point slides.
- Discuss proper bystander behavior at the scene of
a crash
- Simulate triage procedures of multiple victims in
a crashed motor vehicle
- Demonstrate emergency techniques to stabilize
victims for transport
Law Enforcement Officer
Local municipality police officers, sheriff
deputies, and state highway patrolmen welcome the opportunity to
interact with students in a positive learning environment. They field
questions to discount myths and misconceptions related to the laws
governing their safety on the roadways.
- Discuss the common causes of motor vehicle
crashes
- Describes how to protect young drivers and
passengers from injury
- Explains the Graduated Licensing Program, and
other NC laws related to impaired driving, zero tolerance, implied
consent and occupant safety
- Simulates roadside legal procedures and field
sobriety testing
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