Feb 3, 2004
MEDIC FIRST AID Master Trainer Dan Rosenthal has worked in the health care profession for nearly 30 years. As a flight, emergency department, and critical care nurse in New Orleans, Dan spends a lot of time in the thick of emergency care situations. But his first love, next to his wife and business partner, Nancy, is Workplace Nurses, LLC, the New Orleans-area business he founded with the goal of bettering nursing care and education and of providing the surrounding community with simple, effective CPR/first aid training.
Recently recognized as a MEDIC FIRST AID Gold Training Center, Workplace Nurses has established a solid reputation in its community. So why, with a strong business already in place, sign up as a MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center? "It's one of the best things MEDIC FIRST AID has created in the almost eight years I have had the privilege of being a Facilitator." He points to the additional credibility the MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center program will lend to professional training consultants. "I believe that for the training discipline to grow and become better recognized we need to make the difference obvious between a trained, experienced educational professional and the amateur who simply borrows the fire department's mannequins and tries to teach a class once in a while."
Dan noted the marketing and media resources that make up a big part of the MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center program as especially helpful. The first wave of program benefits included a press release template that businesses can use to announce their status as a Training Center. Dan sent his to the The Times-Picayune, New Orleans' major newspaper, and the paper ran an abbreviated version of it soon after.
Workplace Nurses has grown from "providing a single stress-management class for nurses and a few sporadic CPR classes" to a company with several employees and a wide-range of specialties, many focused on improving the quality and breadth of nursing care. In addition the nursing management and high tech intravenous access classes, Workplace Nurses offers a number of MEDIC FIRST AID classes, including Basic, Bloodborne Pathogens, Basic Life Support for Professionals™, CarePlus CPR™, Pediatric, as well as Instructor and Instructor Trainer.
Dan's relationship with MEDIC FIRST AID began after taking the Pediatric, Mark III course. After that, he was a "true believer." In contrast to the "academic nature and outlook" of other organizations' training programs, Dan was "overwhelmed with the simplicity and common sense the MEDIC FIRST AID Training Programs presented. The straightforward approach made understanding emergency care concepts much easier for my students."
In his experience caring for emergency room patients, Dan knows that patients aided by pre-EMS bystander care are often in a better position for recovery by the time they reach him in the emergency room. "The better people [feel] about their ability to perform emergency care the better condition patients are in when they reach my facility." The simplicity of the MEDIC FIRST AID training approach, Dan feels, better prepares the lay responder, too. "To this day, I find MEDIC FIRST AID providers are much more willing to start care when circumstances require it."
Though the MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center recognition program is just beginning, the early enthusiasm expressed by independent organizations nationwide bodes well for its future. Dan, for one, is excited about the possibilities. "This will help all of our businesses to grow much faster and much stronger. The MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center recognition program combined with the strong existing and proposed programs that MEDIC FIRST AID produces can only result in better brand recognition and stronger growth of the entire MEDIC FIRST AID family."
MEDIC FIRST AID is proud to recognize Dan Rosenthal and everyone at Workplace Nurses, not only as a flagship MEDIC FIRST AID Gold Training Center, but also as an integral part of the MEDIC FIRST AID organization for the past several years. To learn how your organization can become a MEDIC FIRST AID Training Center, call a Client Services representative at 800-800-7099.
