A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #29 Celebrate the hills. I learned an important lesson during the final hours of the two-day 320-km Ride to Conquer Cancer from Montreal to Quebec City. I had enjoyed a great ride however the last twenty or so kilometres featured several lengthy […]
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A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #28 Don’t succumb to stranger danger. I won’t miss 2011. It was a rugged year and I don’t mind saying that I’d have kicked it into a pig-manure-slurry-filled ditch if the option had presented itself. Hell, I’d have put the year to […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #27 Create meaningful networks. Social media is a networking enabler and networking can achieve improbable results during a crisis or catastrophe. Many suggest a healthy network should be built upon a platform of something for something – quid pro quo – “one […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #26 Recommend early, recommend often Here’s an exercise I recommend for every EMS leader. Write letters of recommendation for each member of your team as part of your monthly reports. Keep the letters of recommendation private if you’d like or share selections/all […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #25 Be an usher. This episode of The Positive Paramedic is dedicated to two long-time friends – Blair Schwartz and Martha Chandler – each of whom do so very much to ensure the circle of life begins and ends as well as […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #24 Learn the local rules – wherever your travels may take you. I have often been referred to as a ‘human lightning rod’ because of a tendency to be the connector of dots at the center of turbulence. I beg to differ. […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#23 Special orders don’t upset us Let me preface this story by saying I am a vegetarian. No worries, no drama. It’s a personal choice not a political statement. I don’t care what you eat. When our meat-a-tarian friends come over for bbq […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#22 Get out of the way Last Saturday, my daughter Emma got hit by a soccer ball booted by a teammate during practice. It’s okay. She wasn’t hurt. However, it was a reminder that she had violated the #1 Rule of Tobogganing and […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #21 Embrace the rake. Back in April of this year, Becel taught me an important lesson in resource utilization. Becel is a chicken. She’s one of our laying hens. Becel was hatched last year. She got her name because she was the […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#19 And sometimes, it is just beshert. My friends often remark on how the world seems to conspire to ensure I am often in the right place at the right time when someone needs emergency assistance. The CSL EMS crews and dispatchers still […]