Southern Division

National Ski Patrol

OEC Module of the Senior Program (OECMSP)

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The OEC Module of the Senior Program (OECMSP) component is a national education program that encourages members to participate in field relevant exercises to help them develop skills in Leadership, Decision Making, and Problem Management (LDP) as it relates to the treatment of patients.
In addition, the practical exercises that are conducted enhance the ability of the patrollers to handle serious patients in an austere environment.

Leadership
  • Communication with the patient, helpers, bystanders: The candidate informs the patient of what is happening, gives appropriate instructions to helpers, and directs bystanders without introducing confusion.
  • Attitude: The candidate is positive, reassuring, and poised.
  • Ability to direct: The candidate is assertive, makes independent decisions, demonstrates an ability to use resources, and provide clear direction to helpers.
  • Confidence: The candidate demonstrates that he or she knows what to do and how to do it without getting rattled.
  • Delegating: The candidate builds and uses a controlled team approach and doesn’t try to do everything alone.
Decision Making
  • Problem assessment: The candidate approaches the incident appropriately, evaluates the
    situation, and determines all essential issues, proper resources, and safety needs.
  • Patient assessment: The candidate conducts a primary and secondary survey, and during the “patient” interview considers the trauma and likely medical outcome.
  • Appropriate prioritizing: The candidate addresses a single patient and determines whether the patient is a priority case. The candidate also assigns priority status to multiple patients and conducts triage.
  • Overall safety: The candidate takes all appropriate actions to identify, protect, mark, and move patients
Problem Management
  • People resources: The candidate requests, uses, and directs available resources appropriately; keeping people involved without allowing independent actions.
  • Equipment resources: The candidate requests and uses equipment appropriately and ensures that other patrollers do so as well.
  • Plan of action: The candidate manages the problem, avoids repeating actions, directs logical follow through given the patient’s condition, and allots the appropriate amount of time for action points.
  • Anticipation: The candidate plans for what may happen next, avoids common problems, duplication of services, and unnecessary movement of the patient.
  • OEC skills: The candidate directs or applies appropriate OEC skills according to patient need and in accordance with OEC skill performance guidelines.
  • Transportation: The candidate uses planned, supportive, and appropriate means to arrange transportation for priority cases and for others, securing an adequate number of helpers.

Senior Downloads

Patroller Manual is available as the NSP store (free book)