I work with slobs

[JPINFV]

I always find these threads funny because of the egos on both sides. Is it wrong for the attendant (regardless of paramedic or basic) to needlessly trash the back of the ambulance? Yes. Is it wrong for the attendant to not help restock and clean up the back? Yes.

However, while the attendant is finishing off giving report and writting the PCR, the driver should be reseting the ambulance, not sitting around with his thumb up his butt. In general, when I was driving, I've always tried to get the ambulance reset and ready to go before my partner was done with the PCR. Back cleaned up, gurney remade and loaded, ready to go. As a team, we have a responsibility to be ready to go. Now if we want to go get a quick snack from the cafeteria, than sure, but everything is still ready to go.

Sometimes being a part of a team means playing a support role. There's what, 6-7 soldiers playing support to every front line soldier in the US military? Is the person on the aircraft carrier who loads the munitions or fuels the plane, or cooks the meals any more or less critial to completing the mission than the pilot or the ship's captain? That plane isn't taking off without fuel. That plane isn't dropping bombs that aren't loaded. No one is going to eat unless someone cooks. Similarly, that ambulance won't be effective if someone on the team doesn't reset it.

 

[STXmedic]

I always find these threads funny because of the egos on both sides. Is it wrong for the attendant (regardless of paramedic or basic) to needlessly trash the back of the ambulance? Yes. Is it wrong for the attendant to not help restock and clean up the back? Yes.

However, while the attendant is finishing off giving report and writting the PCR, the driver should be reseting the ambulance, not sitting around with his thumb up his butt. In general, when I was driving, I've always tried to get the ambulance reset and ready to go before my partner was done with the PCR. Back cleaned up, gurney remade and loaded, ready to go. As a team, we have a responsibility to be ready to go. Now if we want to go get a quick snack from the cafeteria, than sure, but everything is still ready to go.

Sometimes being a part of a team means playing a support role. There's what, 6-7 soldiers playing support to every front line soldier in the US military? Is the person on the aircraft carrier who loads the munitions or fuels the plane, or cooks the meals any more or less critial to completing the mission than the pilot or the ship's captain? That plane isn't taking off without fuel. That plane isn't dropping bombs that aren't loaded. No one is going to eat unless someone cooks. Similarly, that ambulance won't be effective if someone on the team doesn't reset it.

This! Well put. I kind of assumed that was standard practice... I guess I've just had good luck with partners and us being on the same page. I help reset them, they do the same for me.

Of course, I guess they could be coming to online forums and trashing me behind my back........

 

[AndyK]

I always find these threads funny because of the egos on both sides. Is it wrong for the attendant (regardless of paramedic or basic) to needlessly trash the back of the ambulance? Yes. Is it wrong for the attendant to not help restock and clean up the back? Yes.

However, while the attendant is finishing off giving report and writting the PCR, the driver should be reseting the ambulance, not sitting around with his thumb up his butt. In general, when I was driving, I've always tried to get the ambulance reset and ready to go before my partner was done with the PCR. Back cleaned up, gurney remade and loaded, ready to go. As a team, we have a responsibility to be ready to go. Now if we want to go get a quick snack from the cafeteria, than sure, but everything is still ready to go.

Sometimes being a part of a team means playing a support role. There's what, 6-7 soldiers playing support to every front line soldier in the US military? Is the person on the aircraft carrier who loads the munitions or fuels the plane, or cooks the meals any more or less critial to completing the mission than the pilot or the ship's captain? That plane isn't taking off without fuel. That plane isn't dropping bombs that aren't loaded. No one is going to eat unless someone cooks. Similarly, that ambulance won't be effective if someone on the team doesn't reset it.

:beerchug: well put, Sir!

After I first qualified I was partnered with one of the best paramedics i've ever met. His first words to me were "There are 2 seats in the front of this ambulance. I'm in one, you're in the other.. that means there is no spare seat for either of our ego's to ride along."

 

[mkthefiregirl]

One of my main gripes about EMS...people are slobs and don't care about appearance. One of my medic school instructors put it best, I don't want to see you eating anything in the ambulance cause of the germs that are in there, drink your coffee, fine. No eating.

However, in a transfer setting this is impossible. :-(

 

[the_negro_puppy]

We take turns driving and doing patient care. The driver re-makes the stretcher, cleans the ambulance and restocks while the pt care does the report.


If we make a mess on scene we try to clean up as best as practically possible. The responsibility is shared rather than set out for the student/lower person to do

 

[TransportJockey]

One of my main gripes about EMS...people are slobs and don't care about appearance. One of my medic school instructors put it best, I don't want to see you eating anything in the ambulance cause of the germs that are in there, drink your coffee, fine. No eating.

However, in a transfer setting this is impossible. :-(

In a hell of a lot of 911 services it's impossible too due to SSM.