Platinum Lab Data Entry Issues – IMPORTANT for EMT, AEMT and Paramedic students

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We are having issues with students not completing their required lab data entry completely and correctly at times following skills sessions.  When you do the lab data entry for the session, you must use your competency worksheet (that also must be completed correctly DURING the session as you do your skills) and enter everything that you did during the session COMPLETELY and CORRECTLY.  You also MUST do this either before you leave the skills session site or, if the session…

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Email ISP Issue Reminder

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Some of you chose to enroll by using other email service providers other than gmail.  This does create issues, especially if you use yahoo.  Many of these email clients have very restrictive spam/trash/junk mail filters and automatically think that emails from percomonline.com or JotForm are spam/junk or trash and automatically filter to those boxes without you ever seeing them.  Even with gmail, sometimes you must have the Updates folder open or look in it regularly as well to ensure you…

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Reminder About Mandatory Weekly Participation

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Remember, ALL students are required to CONTINUE to log into the coursework section on this website weekly even after taking and passing final exam and until you have completed all graduation requirements.  This is MANDATORY and is the way we take weekly “roll call” just like you showing up for class. You can be dropped from the program for not following this policy.  The most common reason people complain they cannot get in to do this and see screens after…

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Reminder about Copyright Violations – Copying and Pasting, Screenshots, etc.

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Remember, the test questions in emstesting and the content that is listed as copyrighted by us in your coursework on percomcourses.com is considered sole property.  Unfortunately, there are those out there who would use these items to share with others, steal content, or even to help others cheat on their exams. So this is a REMINDER that copyrighted material must not be printed, scanned, screen shot with computer, phone, tablet, etc., copy/paste/screen clipped or any other method to copy the…

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Trouble Completing Some Skills in Rotations?

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Are you having trouble completing one or more of the skills on live patients to finish your rotations, like intubations for instance?  We DO approve for you to use cadaver lab training to achieve those skills if needed.  There is an approved site in Spring Branch, Texas called the Health Innovation Sciences Center – www.hiscentre.com .  The hold regular Critical Care Skills classes where you can practice and perform skills on cadavers.  To use this option, you would first need to…

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NREMT Disability Accommodations Policies and Application for Testing

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Here is the link if you need a reasonable accommodation to take your NREMT exam(s).  Please read their policies and then follow the steps if you are eligible to receive any sort of accommodation from them. (Instructor candidates, I am including you in this because as a future Instructor, you should also be familiar with their testing policies.) https://content.nremt.org/static/documents/Check_list_for_accommodations_candidates.pdf

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Who is for What?

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When you received your course access email, you are given an instructor’s name and contact information. That person is who you need to email for any questions or if you need help about ANYTHING while you are taking the online portion of your course that has to do with coursework, assignments, exams, or grading.  If you don’t get a result within 3 business days, it means it probably went to internet heaven and email again.  But when you email others…

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