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Might consider that someday....becoming a "Real" EMS provider Like your comment "just drive patients to the hosptial".... perhaps all of our patients that live in a BLS area should just call a taxi when they are in need seeing that a BLS provider only does the "driving" and provides no other...

Tomorrow is my last day... Would have liked to make it to 20 years but that is not going happen. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. I've reached my crossroads today and still have not decided what I'm going to do. I think I just may take a sabatical from it all for a few months. I'm finding that at the end of the day... no one else really cares so why should I...

Generally speaking, how often do you hire new basics or new p's? I have a 20 year old son who may be considering this as a career avenue. he is finishing up his first year at college and has decided that is not the course he'd like to take. he is considering taking a basic course this...

True That!! However, I'm one of the older ones and am finding some of the younger ones to be opponents to change. Stikes me as odd but then again some of the change deals with adding more members and I think that is where the social games come into play. The over all team is very small and...

Yeah, I guess.... I must have blinders on... perhaps it has always been this way.... However, I think regardless of the size of service you must be open to change... however little it is!

Looking for some different perspectives on this..... I've been a long-time EMT-B... I think for almost 20 years now. I've been on various small "volunteer" services. The current one that I've been on for the past 10 years seems to have what I call is "Turmoil in the Team". Meaning that...

Hi, I'm looking to see if anyone has or knows where I can get a fairly newer EMT book for my college age son. He is thinking about taking the EMT -Basic class this summer and then perhaps enrolling into a Paramedic program in the fall. He is not 100% committed so I thought if I could...

FLEMTP.. thanks for the informaiton. That was really good. Well, can you guys point out what brand/model tough books you guys use? Also, how does this EPCR stuff work, is there a software site that I could see a demo on? Since I live in Minnesota we already do electronic reporting...

I know our hospital system uses DocZ. Now, other than knowing what it is called that is far as my knowledge goes with it.... When you do this electronic Epcr how do you make it available to the hospital? Is DocZ a commonly used medical software which will allow the transmission of Epcr...

Actually, I'm in Minnesota. I don't know the mandates about the electronic paperwork. Electronic Patient Care Report?? (Epcr)

Let me ask another question..... keeping in mind we are a small bls service (700 runs per year) and we do not do any electronic forms at this point. I'd like to see if any of you out there have any sort of presentations on how you sold such an idea to move towards tough books, electronic...

yes, but is it a software or hardware that does that or both?

I think a toughbook may be out of our budget at this point. I think we may pilot an inexpensive but newer laptop. I'm sure we might learn that a tough book is the way to go but then again, we only run about 700 calls per year. Can someone tell me more about "digitizer on the screen".. not...

Looking for advice regarding the use of laptops in ambulances. I work for a basic service that has about 700 runs a year, covering about 300 sq miles for the given county. Our county uses a software that has GIS landowner information and we are considering using this as a tool within our...

Yep, there are med kits and such as well as other equip. for the medics. They can perform ALS services.

not sure I follow your question. We are a basic service, who have B's I's and some P's. We are not large enough to be ALS

No, not really. Didn't do anything for EMS week this year. I know the service I was on before did a annual fund drive. I think they had like a chili feed with a band or something like that. Wonder if something like that may help ... get some extra funds but also plant the seed for...

Yes, I think that is the case. Due to the small numbers we have and the fact these individuals already have full-time jobs of their own they can seldom take 24hour shifts during the week. So do on the weekends. Seems like folks are not able to take as much weekend call time. I know the...

Being a small service most of our folks also have other full-time commitments. we do run into situations where some folks can only take 6hrs of a 12hr shift. I know the net net is we just need more people and we are hiring but most folks want a full-time job but our service is more...