Recruitment & Retention
The EMS1 recruitment and retention topic includes research into what drives providers from the profession, tips for finding, recruiting, hiring and onboarding EMS personnel, as well as strategies for protecting provider emotional and physical health and increasing job satisfaction for the long haul
“EMS is a privilege that has been entrusted to you for safekeeping”
AmbuServe’s Melissa Harris discusses EMS staffing and leadership challenges
Do you want someone that is tired and angry on the front lines representing your department?
Officials are working together to ensure ambulances are available, staffed and released from the hospital quickly
The Kansas City (Mo.) Fire Department has invested $25,000 in scholarships to attend paramedic school, and is targeting minority students to diversify its team
The volunteer department has four members, and has until August to recruit at least six more
EMS director says hiring more medics and reducing shift length is vital to the safety of EMS providers and residents
With one ambulance manned by about a dozen volunteers, the town council is considering staffing proposals from another ambulance service
Harrisonburg Rescue Squad values quality service, positive attitudes and knows a little creature comfort goes a long way
Critics say the fire department’s rescue squad is not needed on calls also being responded to by a private ambulance service
With it becoming more difficult for EMTs to move up the ranks and fewer workers being hired, county officials are reevaluating staffing and overtime
Agencies have created an EMS Task Force of Northeast Wisconsin to explore changes and solutions for rural ambulance services
The firefighters in many St. Louis County fire departments do not look like those they are trained to protect
FTOs are the gatekeeper to EMS and can determine if a new employee will sink or swim; how detailed is your department’s program for new hires?
A restructuring will create a new two-tier response system to better staff peak demand times
The students were in an ambulance waiting for their training officer when a man came running up, saying his wife was having contractions
A team dedicated to seeking out candidates for police, fire and EMS aims to bolster the number of women and minorities within city’s public safety ranks
7 medics worked more than 2,000 hours of overtime in 2014; 20 percent of Baltimore Fire Department paramedic jobs are vacant
One suggestion is to reimburse current members for training expenses and to pay new members for completing the courses
The class aims to help rural ambulance crews keep their doors from closing
Contingency plans being made to staff ambulances with fire department medics
LAS hiring Australian medics and increasing paramedic class sizes to meet demand of Londoners for ambulance service
We have to be proactive in researching root causes of internal stereotypes, and work to change any biases seen in departments
South Central Ambulance trust hiring to fill shortage of 220 paramedics and 70 emergency care assistants
The bill would help bolster staffing by allowing them to claim a portion of the value of the services they donate each year as a charitable donation
Services in Texas struggling to fill open paramedic positions; driving up overtime spending and making it difficult to put enough ambulances on the road
A staffing shortage is resulting in long response times, and EMS providers are paid $6 per hour less than those in surrounding areas
Current standard of care is “woefully lacking,” but attempts to contract with other ambulance companies for non-emergencies is held up in a lawsuit
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