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Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Offered April 20th, 2019

This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, ...

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Sunday April 21st, 2019

Pediatric Advanced Life Support ("PALS") is a classroom, video-based, and Instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic to pediatric assessm...

Confined Space Operations

NIPSTA’s Confined Space Operations program is designed to exceed the requirements outlined by the Illinois Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM), and provides students with the basic knowledge and skills needed to perform confined space rescue...

Trench Operations

TRT Trench Ops coming April 22nd-25th

AMTRAK Passenger Train Emergency Response

For more information and registration, click here. 

NEW Company Fire Officer Class

Fall: July 22 - September 13, 2019 Phase I (July 22 - Aug 16) Phase II (Aug 26 - Sept 13) Phase I: Forty hours of online education with four campus workshops. Completed over four consecutive weeks. Phase II: Eighty hours of campus based lectures, discussi...

Incident Safety Officer Class

Spring 2019: May 6 - 10 Fall 2019: November 4 - 8 NIPSTA’s Fire Department Incident Safety Officer program is designed to exceed the requirements outlined by the Illinois Office of the State Fire Marshal “OSFM”, and provides students with the knowledge an...

Prehospital Trauma Life Support

Prehospital Trauma Life Support offered April 17th-18th, 2019

• Physiology of life and death

• Scene assessment

• Patient assessment

• Airway

• Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation

• Circulation, hemorrhage and shock

• Patients with disabilities

• Patient simulations