Paramedic Chief
The news items, feature articles, videos and more you find here are selected specifically with paramedic chiefs and EMS leaders in mind. This content will give those who are charged with running a department or agency the tools, information and insight they need to excel as leaders and managers.
More than ever, those on the front lines need to see their work elevated and appreciated
Learn how to level up your leadership without alienating your workforce
Our co-hosts discuss Cebollero’s recent Forbes article about tips for constructing a leadership development program
The panel will discuss top causes of EMS injuries and measures providers can take to prevent such incidents
During Dr. Fiona Moore’s tenure, cardiac arrest survival rates doubled
Tucson’s pilot program is pulling habitual 911 callers out of the system, here’s how
Fairbanks Paramedic Academy graduates and students took home first place in every category, crediting their training and education for their wins
Develop these five habits to greatly improve your business-writing skills
Improvement science helps leaders understand why there are changes in performance
We can both benefit from, and provide benefits to, the overall health of our community through public health partnerships
Unless EMS leaders can explain “why” to the millennial workforce, any quality improvement process is doomed
Knowing your personnel and being approachable will allow ideas and improvements to come from all members of the EMS organization
EMS leaders can better understand the types of employees in their agency by assessing the level of engagement and commitment
Paramedics and doctors brought in fake body parts to show staffers of a school district how to tie tourniquets and pack open wounds with whatever they have
True concern requires a look beyond singular events and towards methods to eradicate a child’s replica-gun-involved death.
The organization is asking that EMS providers to implement the measures to test within their own systems and then provide feedback.
The two-year project aims to bring the EMS community together and develop a vision for the nation’s EMS systems.
The bill would permit physicians to issue standing orders to EMS personnel to administer controlled substances
Improvement success comes from making the Model for Improvement a normal, regular System 1 part of the EMS organization
Here are six strategies to prevent drug diversion, part of the EMS profession’s important role in the fight against the opioid overdose epidemic
Excessive work hours, compassion fatigue and violence are contributing to an alarming increase in EMS caregiver suicide
Most EMS workplace conflicts are rooted in a mismatch between manager and employee understanding of responsibility, authority and accountability
Device obsession harms team building and personal communication, which hurts both EMS culture and performance
Apply leadership actions consistently and regularly to improve the morale in your EMS agency
Very basic first aid skills can be enough to save lives and allow an individual to render care while waiting for trained medical personnel to arrive
Stations used as polling places need to be a welcoming, open and safe community gathering place that may need to become a secure fortress if something goes wrong; plan for both
Officials are considering implementing a previously successful program aimed at reducing the number of 911 calls on a larger scale
Fire Chief Larry Rooney said the changes limited the department’s response to medical calls
These tools create the first set of standardized measures to evaluate, benchmark and publicly report the outcomes of EMS-based MIH programs
