Posts Categorized: Er
Expanding Our Career Options – Non-Traditional EMS Jobs
Paramedics and EMTs aren't pigeonholed into our tradidional roles. With a bit of forward thinking, we can expand our professional talents into a lot of industries. Can you help? Join in the discussion.
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Patient Handoffs from EMS to the ER, a Fictional Case Study (not a rant)
I made up a scenario about the handover of care from EMS to ER staff. I ranted a bit... but I'm sure that there's NEVER any problems like the one I MADE UP here. Any ER nurses out there want to comment?
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The Handover Blog Carnival – Funniest. Call. Ever – 9/25/2009
EMS people are some funny, funny, people. Oh sure, some of our humor is strange to the uninitiated. It's dark and disturbing sometimes... built from years of bearing witness to the macabre scenes of humanity that play out before us. Sometimes it's more s…
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I am not a medic…but I am Ck’s cousin…and he said "funny"…
This post was written by my cousin Jill. She’s a darn good blogger who writes a blog on her Myspace page. I’m trying to get her to move over to blogger… but have yet to be successful in my endeavors. She wrote this post for this month’s Handover.…
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Working on the Handover – Comedic Heavy Lifting
Remember those commercials for the cable TV station TBS that ran here in the US where they had the "Comedy Lab" testing stuff to see if it is funny?Well, this month's Handover Blog Carnival is WAY better than that.Remember back when Family Guy, The Simps…
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Scenarios. A lot of EMS, a little Einstein
A while back ago I had a kick where I did a scenario-based EMS ethics piece that took a look at a possible situation that could be faced by some Paramedics and asked readers what they would do in that case.
The response was pretty good. You should add…
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Passed HazMat and picked up a Blogroll addition!
I guess it's now somewhat more official... after much kicking, screaming, and crying... Ck is kinda now a glow worm. At least in certification, that is. I passed my HazMat Operations level class and now glow just a bit more than I did before. Honestly, I…
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EMS Trendsetters Conference 2009
http://www.emstrendsetters.org/Are you an EMS Person? Are you involved in Emergency Medicine? Are you an EMT, a Paramedic, a Nurse, a Doctor, a “something medical”? Are you interested in high quality continuing education provided in a fun and cool en…
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tRNfkatAMN and Flames a Flyin’
I am so proud of myself!The first EMS Ethics post I wrote a few days ago "EMS Politics, Medical Ethics, and What Would You do?" the one with the ethical dilemma to cric or not to cric, gathered me my first comment flame!The commenter, who bills himself a…
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The Handover is coming! The Handover is coming!
Coming soon to Life Under the Lights, The Handover Blog Carnival!Yes, Medic999 has convinced me to put my money where my mouth is and host an edition of the Famous EMS Blog Carnival. Hopefully I can live up to the heavy expectations of the readers and fi…
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Still more Everyday EMS Ethics – Gkemtp(it) is born
I've been on this kick lately for medical ethics in EMS. So, I've decided that "Everyday EMS Ethics" is going to be a featured area on my blog. I think that It's annoying my wife Gkemtb who, by the way, is starting Paramedic school today and is now becom…
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Everyday Ethics for EMS Providers
Mike left a comment on the last post I wrote "EMS Politics, Medical Ethics, and… What would you do?" with a good quote that I'd like to bring the forefront of discussion: "Your next call could be your last call". That sentence sums up something that I'…
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"The Handover" is Coming!! Oh, and some changes to the blog.
This is just a reminder for everyone that the new edition of "The Handover" Blog Carnival, the Finest EMS Blog Carnival, is coming up soon! It is being hosted by Medic999 who is saying that this is the biggest blog carnival yet! The theme for this month …
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The DNT Order??
Tonight I would like to take a few moments to hit on what is one of my top-ten all-time use-a-lot-of-dashes-in-between pet-peeves in EMS and probably in health care in general. It's the "DNT" or "Do not Treat" order. It might just as well be called the "…
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Why am I doing this??
So the other day I was taking this cute little 9 month old to a tertiary specialty childrens’ hospital. It was a nice place, big, clean, bright, state of the art equipment, people scurrying about looking busy, cute nurses, etc.. It was a class act. The…
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