Beyond the Backboard – Spinal Cord Injury: From Recognition to Recovery 

Welcome to the Beyond the Backboard - Spinal Cord Injury: From Recognition to Recovery Patroller Workshop featuring Linda Laskowski Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, NEA-BC, NREMT, FAWM, FAEN, FAAN - Editor-in-Chief of Nursing, Executive Director of the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine and Larry Jones, BA, NREMT, FAWM, Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine through the Wilderness Medical Society. Both are members of the Blue Mountain Ski Patrol

This workshop covers the following objectives:

• Identify key areas of spinal anatomy most prone to injury.
• Recognize assessment findings indicative of selected spinal cord injury syndromes.
• Prioritize emergency care interventions for patients with spinal cord injury

About Linda Laskowski Jones

Linda Laskowski-Jones is the Editor-in-Chief of Nursing and also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Emergency Nursing and International Emergency Nursing (UK);she previously served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Trauma Nursing. She received her BSN and MS degrees in Nursing from the University of Delaware, and a post-master’s Certificate in Nursing Administration. She completed the Executive Tracking Managing Healthcare Delivery at Harvard Business School. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Delaware in the post-master’s DNP program. Her experience spans clinical nursing, advanced practice, education, and leadership. She served as Trauma Program Manager, Director and then Vice President of Emergency, Trauma and Aeromedical Services during her 32 year-tenure at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. Linda is a trauma center site reviewer for state trauma center accreditation and is Chair of the Trauma Quality Evaluation Committee for the State of Delaware. She is appointed to the Advanced Practice Committee of the Delaware Board of Nursing and has served as both a member and past president of the Board. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Academy of Emergency Nursing, and the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. She is a member of the National Ski Patrol and an Outdoor Emergency Care Instructor with nearly four decades of volunteer ski patrol service at Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountain Resort. Linda is a prolific author and speaker on nursing, emergency, trauma, and wilderness topics. She is the current President of the Delaware State Council of the Emergency Nurses Association.

About Larry Jones

Larry Jones served for 29 years as an Environmental Scientist with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical Geography from the University of Delaware. As a 47-year National Ski Patrol member at Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountain Ski Area, he was awarded the honor of a National Appointment by NSP. He is an instructor for the National Ski Patrol’s Outdoor Emergency Care program as well as a Wilderness Life Support for the Medical Professional Instructor, and has received certifications in PHTLS and BTLS, as well as National Ski Patrol Avalanche and Mountaineering training. He is an NREMT and is a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine through the Wilderness Medical Society. He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine. In addition to skiing, he enjoys hiking, backpacking, and kayaking.

Disclaimer

This course has been approved by the Pennsylvania Bureau of EMS for two (2) hours of Continuing Education Credits (CEUs). Those who do not have a Pa state EMS certification will receive a Certificate of Completion to use for CEU endorsement.