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.
Loving Your Job Doesn’t Have To Be Lame
Is EMS culture accepting of those who love the role and aim to give it their all? Or are we guilty of labelling conscientious colleagues for trying to hard? If the words we use now are shaping the future of the medics we’ll rely on in old age, we need to choose them with care.
Compassion In EMS, Fighting Fatigue Or Seeking Satisfaction?
There are well-known repercussions to compassion fatigue and burnout, but if compassion satisfaction prevents this fatigue and burnout, seeking it out may make all the difference.
Are Prehospital Acts Of Kindness Losing Their Magic?
Paramedics are well known for compassion to patients and most of us will have gone out of our way to provide something above and beyond the expected service at some point. But what happens when it becomes an expectation, all part of the service?
Sorry, What’s Your Name Again?
Validating a patient's existence by using their name has a huge part to play, I know this and I firmly believe in the principle. Unfortunately, though, this is one of those things that I really struggle with. Always have. Probably always will.
Ambulance Driver or Paramedic?
As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulance drivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing?
All Aboard! Welcoming Rapid Recruits Into Healthcare
Whether we like it or not, our numbers must increase right now, before the growing gap in every healthcare workforce begins to take its toll. There are strong opinions out there, however, both for and against, fast-tracking qualifications and streamlining induction into the ranks.
