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Questionable employees Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 300 Employees and has the following statistics? 30 have been accused of spousal abuse. 9 have been arrested for fraud 14 have been accused of writing bad cheques. 95 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses. 4 have done time for assault. 55 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 12 have been arrested on drug related charges. 4 have been arrested for shoplifting. 16 are currently defendants in lawsuits. 62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year! Can you guess which organization this is? .. It is the 301 MP's in the Canadian Parliament! The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line?! Which one did you vote for? TAKEN FROM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN (Pass this on to every Canadian you know)

How long are these refresher courses they've been blowing off? Either way it's unacceptable, just curious how lazy, negligent and dishonest they were being. I'll never get the bitching about CME. Thankfully it's an incredibly small segment where I work and CME is provided in house (and mostly paid time), but a few people always seem to be down to the wire on their self-guided CE. As a PCP I take 36 hours of classroom CE and two self-study packages to stay current. This is nothing. I easily do double of triple that in formal education each year and countless other hours in reading and study.

A few points... First, I'm uncertain why you quoted TJZ and then failed to address any part of his quoted text, at least that I can see. Second, why is it when providers from other countries criticize American prehospital training/education they often do so with 4th grade grammar, punctuation and capitalization? And lastly, did you find my questions on retarded mentation in pain managed patients to be below the level of this conversation or were just not interested in contrary points of view? Dwayne

never had a bizarre call but I guess thats cause I'm not with any rescue squad (yet)

Afternoon All! How many of you are going to fall foul of these new regulations (to come in April 2011)? If you're a lone operator, or part of a partnership (like myself and my husband), make sure you know where you stand because you're about to be bankrupted out of business! Anyone working in (most) areas of healthcare will have to be regulated by the CQC from April and it won't be cheap. It's going to cost £1500.00 just to register, then you have to pay for a manager to be registered, then you have to pay annual fees. I'm actually an Emergency Nurse Practitioner with an EMT certificate and qualifications in advanced care so I approached the Nursing and Midwifery Council for help and clarification - their advice was of no help at all so I spent all day yesterday reading the guidelines. One REALLY useful piece of advice (a bit of irony there) says that we shouldn't take the guidelines as gospel but should refer back to the legislation. I started reading said legislation this morning and after 4 hours, I'm still only 10 pages into it http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/781/introduction/made Most of my work is event and sporting medical cover and, if I read the guidelines correctly - and follow the advice given by some representative who gave a (useless) talk to the Association of First Aiders last weekend, then if I wish to continue to carry out advanced care I have to be registered and regulated (bang goes £1500.00 in registration). However, if I practice only as a first aider, using only the equipment available in an HSE first aid kit, I don't have to register. I'd also not be allowed to give medical advice, since this is a regulated activity. Therein lies a dilemma. If I only practice as a first aider, I could be considered to be in breach of our Code of Professional Conduct. The CQC representative admitted that St John and Red Cross have been given an easy ride over this regulation, in particular to the background checks and verifications, so why are small businesses (like my partnership business with my husband - no other employees) and lone operators going to be hit so hard. We're going to be bankrupted out of business. I'm now on the point of giving up a 30 year career because I just can't cope with all this crud. Granted, regulation is desperately needed in some areas. It's ludicrous that someone can buy a vehicle, convert it and call themselves an ambulance service but come on! Why penalise the people in the industry who work hard and try to do things right?