Apr 27, 2015
Some of you might have noticed a little bit of a slowdown through the month of April. There are pluses and minuses to this sort of thing. The minus, of course, is me putting out less content for those of you who read this blog regularly and for that I apologize. The plus side though is that with the additional projects that I have recently taken on, I am actually in a position to add more content. So for anybody who has been wondering, here is where I have been and here is what I have been up to.
My time has been divided lately on two fronts. If you look to the right side of this page you will notice a new disclaimer specifically addressing the EMS Compass project. About six or seven months ago I was asked by a colleague to be part of a work group that was going to have a hand in developing statistical measures and benchmarks for EMS. This initiative by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) has since been given the appropriate name EMS Compass. Expect a post about it and what it means for us in the next week.
The other fire that my iron has recently spent a lot of time in is a new role as a Field Training Officer at my service. The way that the system here is setup takes a considerable amount of time and asks a lot of the FTO. A lot of my writing over the last year or so has been done during some of my downtime and lately I have not had much downtime at all. My new responsibilities have made me think back to my days of podcasting about being an FTO with Natalie Cavander over at the now defunct GenMed Show, and some of my philosophies of the role. I am currently developing some content specific to training and educating new EMTs and paramedics.
I never thought that being an FTO would take up as much of my energy as it has but its a role that I have been out of for quite some time and with the added demands of my service (which is a pretty effective but not perfect system) I have not had as much time to spend with my blog as I would have liked.
Expect more content coming this month, and as always thanks for reading!