2017 Tri-State Emergency Responder Conference

Friday and Saturday, October 20 - 21, 2017
Grand River Center, Dubuque, Iowa

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Conference Cost
Before Sept. 1: $89 per day or $158 if attending both days
On or after Sept. 1: $109 per day or $198 if attending both days

Registration costs include:

√ National Speakers
√ Entertainment
√ Snacks and Meals
√ Access to vendor Exhibit Hall
No Hidden Charges!

Continuing Education Hours (CEHs)

Attendees can receive continuing education applicable for fire or EMS depending on the tract they select. They are broken down into Optional Hours (OE) or Formal Hours (FE).

Friday Fire Tract: 8.0 Optional Hours

Friday EMS Tract: 8.0 Formal Hours, 2.0 Optional Hours

Friday H.O.T. Tract: 8.0 Optional Hours

Saturday Fire Tract: 8.0 Optional Hours

Saturday EMS Tract: 8.0 Formal Hours, 1.0 Optional Hours

Saturday H.O.T. Tract: 8.0 Optional Hours

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

CEUs approved. Nurses and allied health professionals can earn continuing education units for attending the conference by registering for the EMS tract.

.80 CEUs Friday
.80 CEUs Saturday
1.60 CEUs for both days under EMS tract

Message from the Conference Chair

Location

I would like to welcome you to attend the Tri-State Emergency Responder Conference, a special event in the Midwest that will offer you an amazing weekend of quality information, exhibitors and entertainment. This year we are blessed with another amazing line up of experienced and talented presenters that are committed to helping you understand how to perform your role safer and serve your community better than you have in the past. As emergency responders, you are constantly searching for training and continuing education at a great value, and I am sure you will find another amazing event this year.

Hands-on training will again be offered on Friday and Saturday thanks to the Iowa Volunteer Firefighter Training Fund, including a new course this year presenting rope skill. One of the most important tasks a fire company will perform is scene size up when responding to a fire. Dave Dodson will present The Art of Reading Smoke, information that will help you determine what is burning, where it is may be located and how developed the fire may be, key components in helping you plan your fireground tactics. Billy Goldfeder will be engaging firefighters in his popular course, Fire Ground Survival, which shares how incidents have gotten firefighters hurt or killed. This is a powerful course that will help you approach the incidents differently so that everyone goes home at the end of the tour. You may know Chief Goldfeder from his popular website, www.firefighterclosecalls.com. Closing out the fire tract this year is my friend, who I met in the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy, Battalion Chief Dane Carley, who will be presenting a course on emergency communications on the fire ground and how you can improve and avoid common errors.

The EMS tract again features two days of diverse categories that will meet formal continuing education requirements. We are excited to bring back Steve Murphy and Jason Dush. These are two presenters who have appeared before at the conference and truly bring their “A” game to make the seminars fun and informative. The topics will be fast and furious, covering a wide range of topics from trauma, pediatrics, managing special needs patients, domestic violence, ob patients and dealing with patients in police custody. Jason will also be addressing one topic that I wanted to make sure that received attention - the mental well-being of the emergency responder. Over the last few years, there is focused recognition on emergency responders who suffer, sometimes silently with post-traumatic stress disorder. It is our responsibility to identify, provide support and ensure that we take care of each other. Departments have been facing increased suicide rates within their ranks from personnel who didn’t get the help they needed until it was too late. This is a crisis that needs to be addressed for every emergency service.

The exhibit hall will feature a variety of products, services and apparatus that will help your service and community. For more information on the presenter bio, specific class descriptions, entertainment line-up and additional information, please visit the conference website at www.nicc.edu/fireems. We are excited to host this conference and know that you will be rewarded from the great information and contacts you will make from this year’s event.

Phil Arensdorf
Conference Chair
Northeast Iowa Community College

Here is what our conference attendees are saying

"Excellent speakers who engaged their audiences." - Lauren Gilbertson

"Always enjoy this conference as an RN and EMT - very beneficial." - Sherrilyn Schurman

"Highly informative! Definitely will applying this all in my patient care!" - Ronda Riffe-Rathje

"As a new firefighter this was a sobering but tremendously insightful day!" - Steve Burrell