Tag Archives: Fire

A critical safety and quality problem in the United States, patient care hand-off has been described as “The Bermuda Triangle of Healthcare”. Miscommunication is so common that it’s been found that ED staff members remember less than half of the information that EMS relays during verbal reports.

In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

The explosion of social media and mobile phone and tablet technology is changing our world. Emergency service organizations large and small are using social media and mobile applications for both bread and butter operations and large-scale crises response.

Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”

So if you’re new educator, don’t try and steamroll over the senior people because they don’t already know all about student centered social mobile online whatchamacallit. And for senior educators and staff in police, fire, and EMS, please continue to bring your knowledge and experience into the classroom, even if you have to stretch a little to do it in new and unfamiliar ways.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS advocate and Redding, CT Police Chief Doug Fuchs to discuss police, fire and EMS working together, local success and failures, how they’re representative of services across the country and how collaboration impacts safety and situational awareness.

EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Top 5 Challenges – A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is RescueDigests’ weekly podcast featuring Rom Duckworth covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues to why the rookie has to pay for lunch, all from a Fire Medic Perspective. . [powerpress] . Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF ...

Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF Rep Jerry Biggart to lay out the top 5 challenges facing us in 2013.

Rom Duckworth talks with Brian Lilley and John Borel about Field Training Programs Done Right.