The Reality of Ramping for Student Paramedics
Ramping is real, and the sooner we set our students up for success in navigating this new way of working, the better. Educate them to expect long hours in limbo. Train them to titrate treatment over extended periods. Give them guidelines to let them meet the standards we’d like to see.
Hitting The Undo Button In The Ambulance
Undo buttons in ambulances don’t always make themselves obvious. Knowing how, why and when, or not, to go ahead is one thing, but knowing how to manage when something goes wrong, has to be our most sound safeguard in aiming for the safest of paramedic practice.
Looking For A Sense Of Purpose
With no simple solution to current issues with prehospital pandemia and wait times, it makes sense to stick to a constant search for that everyday sense of purpose. Looking out for the rewards, large or small and keep them firmly in our sights.
First Responders & First Responses
Working as a paramedic, medic, EMT, prehospital care provider or any other type of first responder differs vastly from any other role in those first seconds or minutes of arrival. In most medical-based experiences, every patient prepares themselves to enter the patient care domain, whereas, unique to emergency services, we have to enter theirs.
A First Responder Kind of Christmas
It may be holiday season for many, but in the world of a first responder, through busy, crazy, intense shifts our minds try not to wander.
If Paramedics Had The Ego of Ants
How do our egos look in comparison to our ant counterparts, and can we adopt a similar approach, so that we soften ours ever so slightly?
