Tag Archives: Social Media

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.

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.

  EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: How can we LEAD and MOTIVATE in emergency services today? – 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] . In this ...

  EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Are First Responders the Front Line of Emergency Management? –   – 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] . ...

Don’t let the EMS in the title fool you, Paramedic and ECG aficionado Tom Bouthillet (pronounced Bouthillet) is also a fire Captain somewhere in the great Southeastern United States (I’ll let HIM tell you where).

2012 was unique in many ways, but like every year since I became a member of this community what I saw and heard this past year made me proud to count myself among the brotherhood of emergency responders.

RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services.   Social Media and Emergency Services: Promoting and policing your service. While department social media feeds are becoming commonplace, few agencies are using social media tools to promote their organization  effectively. What policies and guides to use to keep your social media use on target and out of hot ...

GOAL: To ensure that members of your organization understand that everything they do affects your organization’s Public Image. Public Image is Public Sentiment, Public Sentiment is Public Support, and Public Support affects your ability to operate, regardless of your organization’s status as a public or private entity. Everything You Do In Uniform or With Your Vehicle Says… (What’s Message?) You ...

The top five public safety tips your community needs to know.

Social Media   There are a million websites and a bazillion “Social Media Gurus”, “Mavens” and “Experts” with businesses to guide you through the world of social media. To distinguish themselves, they seem to rely on either whizz-bang theatrics (flashy, blinky text) or scare tactics (if you don’t employ SM marketing right now YOU’LL DIE!). In hopes of making money ...