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ChicagolandIFT
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Superior, Pulse, Precise, Trace, Buds, Med Express, Advance, SCR, there are so many, and they all have really high turnover rates. I am sure they will call you eventually, especially if you have any experience. There are opportunities to be had in NW Indiana as well if you don't mind the drive. If you live in the city, none of them pay well enough to live anywhere decent. To get onto a municipality... well Cook County politics make it pretty much impossible for you to get hired unless you know someone. For 9-11 service look into Buds in the south suburbs, they do the most 9-11 for a private company, but you will be in a long line behind the more experienced basics waiting to get on a 9-11 car.
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The biggest problem with the private ambulance companies in chicago is most of the employees can`t see past what the owners give them. There`s no sense of "brotherhood" throughout the region. The majority of these women and men only care about a paycheck. And most of the owners don`t care about proper patient care. They treat EMS as a business, nothing more.
The biggest problem with the private ambulance companies in chicago is most of the employees can`t see past what the owners give them. There`s no sense of "brotherhood" throughout the region. The majority of these women and men only care about a paycheck. And most of the owners don`t care about proper patient care. They treat EMS as a business, nothing more.
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Of course the owners think of it as a business, it is their business. It is up to the employees to do their job properly. Lack of brotherhood seems too subjective to me, I am very close to my partners, as is most of my station. Good thing municipalities only care about patient care, and never make cuts to Fire/Rescue <sarcasm 
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Keep firing off those applications. See if you can do some volunteer work with an EMS service in the area. When you do get called, wear a suit to that interview.
The point I was trying to make is... most employees of private ambulance services in Chicago are content with whatever policies the owners make. They rarely want to "make waves". And I know a few that would turn on their partners in the blink of an eye, when faced with disciplinary action from the company.
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All private ambulance services are in the business of staying in business. I would like to know what policies you are speaking of. I guess I just do not know where you are coming from.
That`s my point exactly. Are you employed by a private ambulance service in Chicago?
Do you go along with whatever the owner of the company says pertaining to company policy? Or, if you disagree with the owner, do you voice your disagreement to management, or just gripe to your co-workers?
Do you go along with whatever the owner of the company says pertaining to company policy? Or, if you disagree with the owner, do you voice your disagreement to management, or just gripe to your co-workers?
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ChicagolandIFT
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I do whatever the company says... I am their employee, they sign my checks, they pay for my continuing education, a large hunk of my insurance, and for all the equipment I need to do my job. If there is a policy I disagree with I suck it up, unless it was something that compromises patient care. Fortunately the company I work for has given me any reason to be upset. I am required to safely transport the patient (and all that is involved with that tx, assessment, etc). I am then expected to turn in an appropriate run report (which is really more of a medical director issue as much as company issue), and an accurate billing sheet. Sure I am expected to wear a somewhat antiquated uniform, but honestly many of the elderly patients we transport really like it.
Your introductory sentence to your most recent post proves my point. You do whatever the company tells you to. In my opinion, you are part of the majority of private ambulance service employees who would rather look the other way, keep your head down, and allow management to dictate the terms of your employment, right up to and including your termination for any or no reason, because your employment status is "at will".
Is that about right?
Is that about right?
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I suppose the conservative in me agrees with that assumption. My family owns several businesses, and I have always agreed with at will employment. I am very anti-union. When I am working at a family restaurant, I know that what I do is going to affect the bottom line of my families finances. Wherever I work for someone else I respect that someone has their butt on the line. If I have my money on the line, I want things done the way I want them to be done.
So, you work on the ambulance as a hobby? I work for someone (full-time) who controls my livelihood in their hands, along with the rest of my co-workers, and no one is willing to take a stand. In my estimation, in this line of work, there are two classes of people, the worker (me) and management. Which one are you?
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I have a good friend who is an R.N. in an E.D. in the chicagoland area. She tells me that most paramedics who work for private ambulance services in the region (mostly those who work for Med-Ex) don`t follow proper protocols.
A lot of times, they just bring patients (ALS level patients) in the E.D. without contacting the receiving facility or their base station. Why is this?
I have a good friend who is an R.N. in an E.D. in the chicagoland area. She tells me that most paramedics who work for private ambulance services in the region (mostly those who work for Med-Ex) don`t follow proper protocols.
A lot of times, they just bring patients (ALS level patients) in the E.D. without contacting the receiving facility or their base station. Why is this?
ChicagolandIFT
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That I couldn't attest to, I always call report in, my paramedic partner always calls report it. As far as protocols, I guess it depends on which system you are in, but the ones I am part of have a zero tolerance for BLS protocol deviation. And for ALS, if the paramedic wants to deviate, they better call the med control, or be able to explain it later in detail. It is one of the major reasons people loose their job, not so much from the company, but the med director will kick you out of their systems in a heartbeat. I have not had too much interaction with the Med-Ex guys, so I cannot really speak about them, although I have heard similar statements from ED nurses, but I don't want to make a judgment till I get a chance to see their operations for myself. As far as not calling the base station/dispatch... you better beleive that if I go to long without saying anything to them they are calling me (not that I purposely don't make contact, I just get caught up. And I do this as a career, I am not a big fan of the restaurant/hospitality industry, and try to stay away from it (although I will pick up shifts when I need to make a little extra scratch), and I am an employee of the ambulance service, and I try to do what I have to do to keep my job, which means following their rules.