Leadership

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Understanding Why We React the Way We Do: Harnessing Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Success

10/31/2019

Every day, EMS leaders are confronted by situations where a true understanding of various emotions can spell the difference between success and failure. Being prepared intellectually isn’t enough; you must understand the emotions boiling...

Every day, EMS leaders are...

10/31/2019

EMSWorld

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The Ultimate Employee Retention Tool: Survivors Meet their Providers

10/31/2019

The problem in a fast paced, high pressure, EMS environment is that providers often don’t receive on-the-job feedback. Patient care is transferred in the ER and the EMS unit goes back in service to attend to the next call. Technology is...

The problem in a fast paced,...

10/31/2019

EMSWorld

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Best Practice - How and Why You Need to Create a Highly-Reliable Organization

10/30/2019

The ability to demonstrate reliability is critical as EMS enters the measured healthcare environment. Utilizing the core concept of DMAIC (D: Define the opportunity, M: Measure the performance, A: Analyze root cause, I: Improve the process,...

The ability to demonstrate...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Improving Public Understanding of SCA Motivates Bystanders to Intervene

10/30/2019

A national study conducted for the Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Foundation found that understanding SCA drives bystander action to give CPR and apply an AED. Exposure to a lay-friendly definition of SCA significantly increases the number of...

A national study conducted for...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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You Are Now Free to Move About the Ambulance: What If Airlines Ran EMS?

10/30/2019

Imagine showing up for work one day and finding out that your agency had been taken over by an airline. EMS and aviation aren’t all that different: both are high-visibility industries, with serious consequences if something goes wrong. In...

Imagine showing up for work one...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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I Hope I Screw This Up: The Risks of Playing It Safe & How to Overcome Fear of Failure

10/30/2019

Make sure the scene is safe” is a great philosophy for keeping emergency responders alive and unhurt but can hold you back in your personal and professional growth. Fear of failure can lead to a focus on avoiding being wrong instead of...

Make sure the scene is safe” is...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Top Failures in EMS: A Raw Story of Struggles

10/30/2019

This brutally honest look at the past nearly 25 years in public safety and my failures of epic proportion will show attendees that we are all human. This session digs into why we eat our young and how we need to mentor the next generations....

This brutally honest look at the...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Army Values: Can They Work in EMS?

10/30/2019

Many people have misconceptions about how the Army develops leaders and values as an organization. On many occasions, EMS leaders allow these misconceptions to enter EMS, and rather than becoming a value-based organization, the...

Many people have misconceptions...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Best Practice—Ethics and Leadership in EMS: A View from the State House

10/30/2019

The EMS profession seems to lack the respect other public service agencies and healthcare professions receive. Who and/or what is responsible for this? Perhaps we should take responsibility for the way we are perceived by others. We must...

The EMS profession seems to lack...

10/30/2019

EMSWorld

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Telling Our Story: Keeping EMS in the Public Eye

10/29/2019

Rob Lawrence is the master of SPP! - Shameless Product Placement and realizes that keeping his organization in the public eye is a critical activity both to promote the excellence of the staff delivering world class patient care and also to...

Rob Lawrence is the master of...

10/29/2019

EMSWorld