IU-EMS - Mission

Mission

Here you can learn about IU-EMS' mission plan and its goals for the future. Select

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Primary Goals

As stated on the homepage, IU-EMS pursues three primary goals in its service to the IU community:

Continue to provide quality patient care at various area events.
- University departments, student organizations, and community organizations hire IU-EMS to provide quality medical coverage at their events, which vary in size and nature. IU-EMS provides service at events such as dance marathons, bicycle races, running races, fundraisers, and special interest events. Event attendance varies from around a dozen people to thousands of people. IU-EMS actively pursues maintenance of quality for existing coverage and expansion to covering new events.
Expand its educational leadership, especially to the public.
- IU-EMS provides first aid, CPR, and AED administration courses to its members as well as to the general public. It also offers these courses for specific groups, such as academic departments, other student organizations, and fraternities and sororities. IU-EMS members also individually volunteer to assist in instructing the practical skills portion of the university's EMT-Basic course, HPER-H404. IU-EMS continues to cooperate with the course instructor to maintain the quality of instruction. Finally, IU-EMS pursues offering more of the aforementioned courses to more people, and to initiate offering new types of courses.

EMT-Basic Lab Spring 2007

Establish a campus non-transport 911 first response service.
- Such a service will allow anyone on the IU campus who calls 911 for an ambulance to receive quality professional care sooner than they otherwise would, from students who are familiar with the campus layout and its buildings. BHAS (Bloomington Hospital Ambulance Service) is in full support and cooperation of such a service, and IU-EMS will be implementing the first stage of this program, a weekend response service based in the residence halls, during the 2008-2009 academic year.

The following four sections detail the service that IU-EMS provides to specific groups:

IU Students

University students are often apprehensive about obtaining emergency medical care due to several

factors, including embarrassment, fear of legal repercussions, fear of high cost, and being uninformed about

when and how to do so. IU-EMS cooperates with its hiring groups and organizations to provide students with

free quality medical care. They receive this care from fellow students who are familiar with the feelings,

stresses, and concerns of patients and who are able to build rapport with them, instead of appearing as a

stranger or a law enforcement or other authority figure.

Additionally, university students are often uninformed about basic safety and health issues, including risks

and their appropriate precautions. IU-EMS actively pursues an educational campaign which includes not

only offering courses, but also public awareness campaigns and cooperation with other organizations.

IU & Bloomington Communities

In addition to IU students, IU-EMS provides service to any IU faculty, staff members, or visitors, or any

Blooomington residents or visitors, that are present at any of the events that it provides coverage for. They

receive the same quality professional care that IU students, our primary patient population, receive. IU-EMS

also targets the IU and Bloomington communities with the same educational initiatives that they target IU

students with, as described above.

Hiring Groups & Organizations

Groups and organizations that hire IU-EMS receive quality professional service at a much lower cost than

other alternatives. This allows them to adequately staff their events with emergency medical personnel with a

minimal impact on their budgets. IU-EMS provides state-certified emergency medical professionals and

uses the highest quality equipment available in the industry.

Finally, hiring IU-EMS provides the advantage of having students fill this role. Student emergency medical

personnel are familiar with the campus layout and its buildings, and can establish a high level of rapport with

other students who are their patients by understanding their feelings, stresses, and concerns.

Other Public Safety & Health Agencies & Organizations

Public safety is a cooperative effort between various law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical

organizations. IU-EMS maintains positive professional relationships with other agencies such as IUPD

(Indiana University Police Department), BPD (Bloomington Police Department), BFD (Bloomington Fire

Department), and BHAS (Bloomington Hospital Ambulance Service). IU-EMS works with these and other

agencies and organizations at many of the events that it covers, cooperating to provide a continuum of

quality patient care.

IU-EMS' In an Instant, a mock drunk driving accident staged during the IUSF Little 500 week, also serves

as a powerful training scenario for these agencies. Aditionally, IU-EMS cooperates extensively with BHAS to

share protocols and training to ensure a smooth transfer of care and a high overall continuum of patient care.

Finally, IU-EMS cooperates with other university, student, and community organizations to provide education,

training, and public awareness to the general public and to specific groups.

In an Instant 2008

Supplemental Goals

In pursuit of its three primary goals listed above, IU-EMS has adopted several supplemental long-term

goals that it actively pursues, the most important of which are listed below:

Expand visibility and public awareness on campus and throughout the Bloomington area through public relations and advertising.
Improve information dissemination to members and to the general public, primarily through a redesigned and more informative website.
Expand membership through public relations and advertising.
Actively promote the ICE Initiative, an important public awareness campaign adopted by the public safety community.
Cooperate with RPS (Residential Programs and Services) and RHA (Residence Hall Association) to improve the health and safety of students living in residence halls through RA (resident assistant) training, resident education and public awareness, and the aforementioned 911 first response service.

ICE Initiative at In an Instant 2008

The following are goals which IU-EMS would like to pursue in future years:

Establish a disaster response plan in cooperation with other public safety agencies and organizations.
Increase personnel mobility for events and the 911 first response service by possibly establishing a bicycle team and by eventually acquiring a vehicle for personnel and equipment transportation and/or active response to patients.

IUSF Women's Little 500 2007