Posts Categorized: Management
Out of Air Emergency (Last Chance Rescue Filter)
Out of Air Emergency The Last Chance Rescue Filter
You are in a dark, heat, smoke filled room, and you are taking your last breath. You think to yourself “now what?”. Your mind quickly goes to a check list of things to do. During this check li…
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Christmas Tree Safety
As we approach another Christmas season, we need to always remember safety. During this time is prime for traffic accidents , fires, falls, and other traumatic incidents. But today we are going to focus on Christmas Tree Safety. It seems every year that …
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Does It Really Matter? Really?
Hello boys and girls. This might be one of those ramblers so I'll apologize in advance. When I sit down to write I very rarely map something out, read it and re-read it, tweak, adjust or otherwise do much in the way of editing. I us…
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That Lonely Feeling, The Ticking Time-Bomb of Short-Staffing
First, I need to apologize and make a confession. I'd like to apologize for such a long absence and the lack of content on the blog. There's a very good reason for it, I assure you. Which leads me to the confession. I believe that early on I co…
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EMS case law? AMA Refusals, Death, and Documentation
This post highlights a recent piece of EMS case law where an ambulance service was successfully sued over an AMA refusal and a patient's subsequent death... It's a must read
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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?
"Is that the best you can do?" Those seven words are so simple, yet when asked of ourselves and others, can become so powerful. Is what you're doing in your EMS career the "best" you can do? Think of what we could accomplish if all simply "tried our best".
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You Can Nap if You Want To! Or You can Leave Your Calls Behind!
You can Nap if you want to! You can leave Leth-ar-Gee Behind! Because EMS can nap and if they don't nap - they leave, Patient Care behind. - Introducing the "Safety Nap" Who's with me?
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As AmboDriver Always says… For all you EMS types
There's a new EMS article about to blow up your mail box in the July issue of EMS magazine... or you could follow this link to the article on EMSresponder.com
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EMS 2.0 as Explained to My Brother
I had a good conversation with my brother the other day. We talked about this "blogging" stuff I do and the topic turned to EMS 2.0. Guess what he wants me to do?
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EMS Week 2010 – Thank You Letter from Management to EMS Crews
EMS Week 2010 is coming up - Managers, are you thinking of sending a THank You letter to your crews? Here's a template to get you started. It's free to use and to modify
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Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting
Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What's up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It's confusing as heck..
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Fiddling While Rome Burns – The “Ambulance Industry”
If you read this piece and it ticks you off, I've accomplished something. We have to take ownership of our profession and our cause. It's always about the patient, but it's about us too... are we taking a cue from Emperor Nero?
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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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