Your Stories: Saint Francis Provides Stop the Bleed Training to School Safety Officers
March 23, 2026Categories: Events
Members of the Saint Francis Hospital Trauma and Injury Prevention team recently partnered with several other health care organizations to provide Stop the Bleed training to School Safety Officers from Hartford Public Schools. Tracy Fox, RN, Trauma and Injury Prevention Nurse Coordinator, and Rachel Collett, RN, Trauma Performance Improvement Nurse, represented Saint Francis at the course.
Members of the Saint Francis Trauma and Injury Prevention Team collaborated with several other healthcare organizations to provide Stop the Bleed training to 115 school safety officers.
In collaboration with Connecticut Children’s, Hartford Hospital, Hospital of Central Connecticut and the Connecticut Emergency Nurses Association, certified Stop the Bleed instructors taught 115 Safety Officers how to recognize and treat life threatening traumatic bleeding injuries.
Stop the Bleed, developed by the American College of Surgeons, is intended to bring empowerment and education about bleeding control, teaching bystanders how to initiate care for traumatic bleeding. Since the program has only a few props and easy instructions, it can be taught anywhere. Using wounds on rubber “arms,” participants are taught how to pack a wound, apply pressure and put on a tourniquet. These are lifesaving skills that can be used anywhere, anytime and are proven to save lives when every minute counts.
Submitted by Tracy Fox, RN, Trauma and Injury Prevention Nurse Coordinator, Saint Francis Hospital.
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