If you’re working wellness events with TotalWellness, there are a variety of services we expect you to know how to provide. There are some things that you just need to know—and we’re confident your professional training has afforded you those skills!

We need you to know those services because with our large magnitude of events—and the fact that they’re all across the country—we don’t have the capacity to train you for a whole new skill. It’s not a good idea to train “on-the-go” either, so we don’t want to put you in that situation.

The services you’ll need to know are fairly standard and don’t usually cause a lot of trouble for most contractors.

For Biometric Screenings

The Event Worksheet will list the services that are going to be offered at a given event, but we do have a standard screening package. That includes:

• BMI, height, weight and waist circumference
• Blood pressure
• Finger-stick (for cholesterol and glucose tests)
• Venipuncture blood draw (for cholesterol and glucose)
• Health education and counseling

We also ask that you know and understand our registration process. That’s not technically a medical skill, and it can vary from event to event, but it does help us be sure our events run seamlessly from start to finish.

We do offer some other “one-off” services like DermaView skin screening, fitness testing and a variety of other blood tests. Those specialty screenings will also be listed on your Event Worksheet, and your primary contractor will be able to help you learn the correct techniques and machinery.

For Flu Shots

You’ll need to know how to administer a standard flu shot. We only schedule nurses to work flu events, so we don’t anticipate any contractors having trouble administering flu shots. It is important to be sure you’re refreshed on the correct procedures, dosages and aseptic technique—all of which can be found in the contractor manual.

If You Don’t Know How

If you don’t know how to perform any of the procedures we just listed, don’t panic! If you see a procedure you haven’t done in a while, and can’t quite remember the details, take a look at our procedure guides either in the manual or online in the TotalWellness Scheduling System. Those procedure guides provide great insight into the way we perform services here at TotalWellness.

If you have never done one of the procedures listed above, or if you’re completely uncomfortable performing it based on the procedure guides, that’s okay. You’re not disqualified from working an event. But you do need to let your primary contractor know as soon as you realize the event includes a service you cannot do.

Your primary contractor is responsible for assigning the secondary staff to their stations. They’ll simply assign you to a station you do know how to do—and the event will go off without a hitch.

If there is a service you are not comfortable with, please do not stay silent. And do not attempt to administer that service. That’s not only unprofessional, but it’s incredibly dangerous for wellness event participants.

Have you taken a look at the TotalWellness procedure guides? How helpful were they? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!