Posts Categorized: Ems Education
Tripping at the Hospital – A Teachable Moment for EMS
Have you ever been called to an emergency on the property of a hosptial? A case in Canada provides a teachable moment for our profession.
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GPS in the Ambulance – An overreliance on Ms. Kitty
Do you have a magical voice box on your dashboard that tells you where do go? Do lives depend on it?? Maybe you might want a backup plan.
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Does How Your Brain Works Affect Your Patient Care?
If you're a regular reader, you know by now that my brain works differently than well... a lot of people's do. How does your brain work? How does that affect your care? How does this affect EMS?
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Colorado CRNAs Vs. Virginia Physicians? An interesting feud for EMS
This article caught my interest, it's a feud between CRNAs and Anesthesiologists from Colorado to Virgina. There's a lot to learn here for EMS 2.0.
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What Difference Does EMS Make? Choose Your Own Ending
I got a little philisophical with this post and I'd like you to pick the ending I should use. What do the three cases I present mean to you?
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Too Much Information For a Paramedic?
Our friend Greg Friese was told that a class he taught was "too much information for a paramedic". Now there's three bloggers ranting, good job there, Anonymous Student Evaluation.
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Thanks Rogue Medic – What are EMS’s “Fad Diagnoses”?
Our friend Rogue Medic has a shiny new site up there on the Interwebs. It rocks. Rogue Medic is one of the many, many bloggers, non-bloggers, and/or random people who are much, much smarter than I am. I read his site a lot and I am very pleased to throw …
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Four Words: EMS, Apathy, Disgrace, Massachusetts.
You've heard about the Mass. 200, right? Well, this is my take on it. The system may be broken, but they needed to do more than just ignore it. There's more.
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Paramedics and EMTs are Special, a salute to the Spork!
The humble spork, the very symbol of efficiency, ingenuity, and ineffective eating performance. How does the spork tie in with EMS? Very well, actually. We are sporks and we're not sporks. It's complex... you'll see
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When all you have is a hammer… Every problem looks like, lasix?
Ever heard the expression "When all you have is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail". I do that on fire scenes, but is it good to do that with EMS?
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Master Paramedics? I’m asking you a question
I have a question for all of you readers out there. Trade Unions have always honored their best and most experienced members by bestowing the title of "Master". How would we in the Profession of EMS honor our own Masters?
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A Slap in the Face for Medics? How about a Wake-up call
Following up to the "A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?" Post, this is how I see it once I've calmed down a bit. It is a slap, but it should serve as a wake-up call for EMS.
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Saved by the Bell? High School Student EMS
Remember High School? I do. I was the geeky kid who did show choir. I played football too, though. I was young, naive, and inexperienced. I also desperately wanted to be on an ambulance before I was 18. Was that a good idea? Some communities are doing just that. I was for it... but should I have been?
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Trust… It’s everything
This post is about when "Stuff gets real". It's about trusting your colleagues and yourself to perform when everything's on the line. It's about trusting your fellow EMTs and paramedics to perform when it's your loved-one on the line. Do you trust them? Do you trust yourself?
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Any Random Person
Hey, I could do that ALS stuff. Any Random Person could do some of that stuff. Right? Well, I counter that it takes a VERY SPECIAL KIND of random person to be a good ALS provider.
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3am with Ckemtp – (See Gus? I can do that too)
It's midnight, I have to be up and out the door at 3am to fly out to EMS today at 6am. I'm excited, but it's cold and Mama Juggs keeps setting off the tones.. then Gina keeps elbowing me and telling me to go to the station to do paramedic stuff...
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Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come
A letter I got from a fellow Paramedic has caused me to write a long tyrade on the state of EMS. This post will make you mad. It will challenge you and challenge our profession. You will probably see yourself in the words this Paramedic wrote to me. We Need Change.
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The Chronicles of EMS – Day 3?? Who knows, I’m flying
I am flying. I am so freaking happy that I came to San Francisco! Just.. wow.
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Why I am Passionate about the Chronicles of EMS
I am energized, passionate, and genuinely excited about the Chronicles of EMS. I'm in 100% - Here's why you should be too.
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Mental Quickness – Do Smart Alecks Make Better EMTs?
Input, processing speed, and decision making skills are all part of being a good EMT or Paramedic. How can we improve our own? By thinking about it in a new way... and by busting some chops too
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EMS practice
What does Highschool Football Practice have to do with EMS? Does passing a football have anything to do with passing a tube? Maybe it does
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Are We the Gatekeepers to the Emergency Healthcare System? – EMS 2.0
EMS 2.0 has so much potential to save billions in unneccesary healthcare costs here in the US. Could this be an example? In this scenario, I tell the story of what I've put into practice since the Chronicles of EMS came on the scene.
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“Like Being on a Carousel” – The NREMT Cert? From TOTWTYTR
A shoutout to my friend TOTWTYTR, who calls out EMS education in one of his latest posts. Actual Quote: "The Entire Process of Recertification is a Fracking Farce" Go get em, buddy.
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Uh oh, is it that time again? EMS Recert Time Cometh…
I'll betcha that a lot of you reading this are in the same boat that I am... Here's the reminder!
Yesterday I had the occasion to pull out all of my various certification cards and licenses, photocopy them, and turn them in to one of my departments fo…
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Education vs Training: The “Professional Ambulance Cleaner”
Imagine if you will this hypothetical scenario:
You and your roommate have just graduated EMT school together and go to work at competing ambulance companies in the same city. He works for HIS ambulance service, and you work for YOUR ambulance service. Both services have similar fleets, similar deployment patterns, and similar call-volumes. In fact, there’s really no way to tell them apart other than the fact that the HIS ambulance service uniforms are sickly green jumpsuits, and YOUR ambulance uniforms are Macho Blue Shirts with navy blue pants.
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