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I am an EMT and also a student completing my bachelors degree in organizational communications. My final project is for me to do my own research about leadership, and I wanted to look at leadership styles and EMT's. If you would please fill out this short survey, I would greatly appreciate it. My company I work for has no leadership training, so it appears that every EMT has to create their own leadership style when leading patients. If anyone has any comments about their experiences on leadership it would be greatly appreciated.

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Any reason you put everyone 36 and older in one group?
 
I fixed the duplicate questions and put the correct questions in. I also made the age range more appropriate. Thanks for the input!
 
bwat16, a few more points for you to consider:

What are you gaining by making all of the non-pedigree questions "required"? Wouldn't you rather have answers to some than none at all? Think about the message you're sending participants who are volunteering their time to help you.

Did you have any hypotheses before starting your research?
 
Required is not the best word to describe my intentions for that. I wanted people to not forget to fill out a question to ensure the validity of the responses. I took off the required setting. I have a research question and I have researched the topics I am looking at extensively. I cant say what my research question before people take the survey because it could impact the data. Thanks for everyones help!
 
bwat16 said:
My company I work for has no leadership training, so it appears that every EMT has to create their own leadership style when leading patients. If anyone has any comments about their experiences on leadership it would be greatly appreciated.
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We do not "lead" patients. That is very poor wording, and completely backwards. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the patient often leads us. We base our entire treatment tree off of what the patient tells us physically, and/ or verbally.

As far as your research poll, it seems open to people answering with complete dishonesty. I can say yes to most of the questions, but what's it worth if I (or anyone) am not telling the truth?

Leadership styles come with both life, and workplace experience. I will say, The strongest leaders that I know of are often innately born with such talents. They don't mind getting their hands dirty, in the trenches with their subordinates regardless of their stature or title, and above all else lead by example.
 
VentMonkey said:
We do not "lead" patients. That is very poor wording, and completely backwards. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the patient often leads us. We base our entire treatment tree off of what the patient tells us physically, and/ or verbally.

As far as your research poll, it seems open to people answering with complete dishonesty. I can say yes to most of the questions, but what's it worth if I (or anyone) am not telling the truth?

Leadership styles come with both life, and workplace experience. I will say, The strongest leaders that I know of are often innately born with such talents. They don't mind getting their hands dirty, in the trenches with their subordinates regardless of their stature or title, and above all else lead by example.
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By definition, EMT's and medics do lead their patients. The leader/follower relationship is very unique because of the nature you said. There is very little research done on the leadership styles of EMT's, which is one of the reasons why I found this interesting. I would argue that the EMT's do lead patients because if the pt truly was the leader, we would treat the pt for exactly what they are saying, which is often incorrect and misleading. The EMT is the leader because they know what to look for and what to look past about the pt.

Yeah surveys are never 100% accurate, but if there is a large enough sample size, it should still show trends. This survey is completely voluntary to take, so peoples intentions on taking this survey is generally not to lie and get through it as fast as they can.

One thing I have found on the job and through research, is that leading in a crew by example is one of the most important traits. It creates a very positive work environment where everyone else works up to the expectations of the leader instead of scooting by with the bare minimum. Thanks for your input VentMonkey.
 
Honestly, OP, I think you're missing the mark entirely. I will also take a guess and say your "on the job" experience is limited to a handful of years, at best. Understand this is hardly meant as a personal attack, but you cannot combine a few years as a tech, plus research and come to such misled conclusions.

In other words, you are wrong. I am surprised @EpiEMS hasn't added any input. If there ever was a tech that you, and I could learn from that knows research and numbers, it's him. Anyhow good luck, thanks for playing.
 
bwat16 said:
By definition, EMT's and medics do lead their patients. The leader/follower relationship is very unique because of the nature you said. There is very little research done on the leadership styles of EMT's, which is one of the reasons why I found this interesting. I would argue that the EMT's do lead patients because if the pt truly was the leader, we would treat the pt for exactly what they are saying, which is often incorrect and misleading. The EMT is the leader because they know what to look for and what to look past about the pt.
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I think you're missing the boat on leadership. If you consider the patient-provider relationship to be an example of leadership -- the way most of us think about leadership, anyway -- I'm afraid your survey will produce answers to questions you didn't think you were asking.

I do think leadership is a valid topic to study. Also, you've made an effort to get feedback here, which is good. Maybe give some more thought to how you think you're going to relate dependent and independent variables, and reconsider your statement, "By definition, EMT's and medics do lead their patients."
 
If I "led my patients" I would walk them down the path to my tunnel visioned/biased opinion of what I thought (right or wrong) about them or their condition.

On the contrary, both the patient and their signs/symptoms lead us.
 
bwat16 said:
There is very little research done on the leadership styles of EMT's, which is one of the reasons why I found this interesting.
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I can't say I'm surprised...I'm pretty skeptical of self-reported data, myself. But that aside, I am not clear on what a lot of those question have to do with "leading patients". Could you clarify a bit? For what it's worth, I'd much rather hear about leadership experiences from field providers that they've had with their operational management (field supervisors)...

What sort of analysis are you looking at doing on the basis of these questions?

(@VentMonkey)
 
How can we just expect someone who has no actual experience with leadership or being a healthcare provider and almost certainly has never taken a philosophy/ethics course in their life to understand the difference between leader-follower and provider-patient relationships?

That said, OP, you'd better listen to what people are telling you about that distinction and you should do more due diligence on a subject before attempting to formulate a research question and survey.
 
This study is measured completely quantitative. The things you guys are saying are things that I will take into mind once I become a medic.
 
EpiEMS said:
I can't say I'm surprised...I'm pretty skeptical of self-reported data, myself. But that aside, I am not clear on what a lot of those question have to do with "leading patients". Could you clarify a bit? For what it's worth, I'd much rather hear about leadership experiences from field providers that they've had with their operational management (field supervisors)...

What sort of analysis are you looking at doing on the basis of these questions?

(@VentMonkey)
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Ill post the reasons for the questions and what I found once I turn in my report, Right now with the current responses I am getting a lot of great information.
 
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