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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?
August 19, 2010 | Administration & Leadership, ALS Intercept, Ambulance cleaning, Command & Leadership, edemse, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS ethics, EMS Topics, EMS training, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter, Management, Paramedic, Patient Management, politics, pride, profession, professionalism, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized | Ckemtp | 1 Comment
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“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”.

Education vs Training: The “Professional Ambulance Cleaner”
November 12, 2009 | Ambulance cleaning, Ambulance maintenance, disinfection, Emergency Medical Services, ems 2.0, ems education, EMS Management, ems scenario, ems scenario based education, EMS Topics, EMS training, Management, Paramedic, paramedic education, profession, professionalism, sanitize, scenario based training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics | Ckemtp | 21 Comments

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.

A Motivational EMS Article Geared towards Newer EMTs
November 3, 2009 | Ambulance cleaning, courtesy, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems education, EMS Motivation, EMS pep talk, EMS Topics, EMS training, EMT, medicblog999, Patient Management, profession, professionalism, Public relations, technology-communications-ems-topics, Training & Development, volunteer fire department, volunteer firefighter, Your Happy Medic | Ckemtp | 3 Comments

This is a motivational piece geared towards new EMTs that I wrote for a department’s monthly newsletter. Feel free to steal it to inspire your own troops.

Clean EMS – Lifesaving practices in Ambulance Cleaning
May 22, 2009 | Ambulance, Ambulance cleaning, CDC, disinfection, EMS, EMT, Fire department, infection control, Paramedic, sanitize, swine flu | Ckemtp | No Comments

Here is a shocking statistic: According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nosocomial Infections (or Healthcare Associated Infections – “HAIs”) defined as “… infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital or a healthcare service unit, but secondary to the patient’s original condition” are the 4th leading cause […]