What Is RIGHT With Your Organization or Company ?

[Bieber]

Our administration and the current initiatives being driven by our administration (evidence-based medicine, studying usefulness of lights and sirens response/transport, more liberal protocols, high quality CPR going away from transporting code blues, community paramedicine/advanced practice paramedicine, a formal FTO program) are all VERY good stuff. The problem, believe it or not, is that we have a huge number of employees who are extremely resistant to all of these changes, essentially it seems because they're changes.

[Asysin2leads]

What I like:

Good new hire orientation and mentoring program

Unified area service

Lack of fire service intrusion

Free boots!

[Bieber]

Asys, what do you mean by no fire service intrusion? As in, fire doesn't respond to medical calls at all or do you just mean that they're respectful of the boundaries between EMS and fire and don't try to cross them?

[rock_shoes]

What I like:

Good new hire orientation and mentoring program

Unified area service

Lack of fire service intrusion

Free boots!

Asys. Was it you who ended up working as an ACP in BC sometime in the last year or so.

[emtdennis]

Asys, what do you mean by no fire service intrusion? As in, fire doesn't respond to medical calls at all or do you just mean that they're respectful of the boundaries between EMS and fire and don't try to cross them?

Very similar here in Medford, NY. Fire Dept and VAS are separate when it comes to calls. We do have the good fortune of working together really well when the fit hits the shan.

Likes: I get to work with a great bunch of folks of all ages and experience levels. Plenty of in-house training and helping each other out.

[Asysin2leads]

Asys. Was it you who ended up working as an ACP in BC sometime in the last year or so.

That would be me. I'm not working quite yet though, and there is the ever present possibility that I'm going to end up working as the most qualified Arby's sandwich maker around.

Edited May 2, 2012 by Asysin2leads

[Arctickat]

That would be me. I'm not working quite yet though, and there is the ever present possibility that I'm going to end up working as the most qualified Arby's sandwich maker around.

Well, considering the quality of food there, it would likely become a recommendation to have a full time medic presence.

What's the hold up? Wanna come work a little casual time in Sask while you're waiting to get your feet wet out there?

[rock_shoes]

That would be me. I'm not working quite yet though, and there is the ever present possibility that I'm going to end up working as the most qualified Arby's sandwich maker around.

Are you waiting on EMA licensing or BCAS human resources? Either one can be brutally slow. If there's anything I can do to help sift through the BCAS paperwork maze let me know.

[Bernhard]

What's right about them? They have me.

OK, honestly: beside of bad leadership and almost non existing pay plus some lazyness to follow actual trends (which sometimes isn't that bad) they do a lot of things right..in no special order: pool clothing with central cleaning to 100% hygienic guidelines, modern ambulances & equipment, beeing the market leader in the field, having an excellent reputation and so on.

They still do a lot of stupid things during the day, too, but on the other hand what would we do when whe had really nothing to complain (beside of bad leadership and almost non existing pay). And, a significant lot of stupid things are done by the employees AKA cow-orkers.

Interesting question.