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True Survival – Book Review of Buried Alive by Roy Hallums

About the Book In November of 2004 Roy Hallums, a retired US Navy Commander, working as a contractor in Iraq was kidnapped from his office. He spent the next 311 days as a hostage. Buried Alive is Roy’s story of his time in captivity and how he made it through the experience alive. For example, […]

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EMS Tips Product Reviews

App Review: Paramedic Quick Reference Guide

This is a guest post by Andrew Spencer, AREMT-I, MIRHC. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. A new app for iPhone with more than 1500 medications for less than the price of a large cup of good coffee? I was skeptical at first but having carried printed […]

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EMS Tips Operations

Employee Review Tips

With 2009 officially in the books, patient care reports clearing the billing process, and start of year tasks completed this might be the time that employee reviews are being conducted. In my experience employees are reviewed either at the end of the calendar year or on their service anniversary. I just had my employee review […]

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EMS Tips Operations

Striving for Excellence

Annual Review I recently had my annual performance review for my part-time paramedic job. The reviewer was gracious and had thoughtful feedback about my performance during the past year. I continue to meet the shift and training requirements for part-time staff and didn’t have any mistakes or errors that either were not already corrected or […]