Posted: 10/27/2014 2:23:49 PM EDT
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I thought about what I wrote after my OP. And I might have given the impression that I'm hoping my captain/station can tell the future and that's not it. Well, not on a specific level, no. But the whole idea of emergency management is to take the possibilities and plan for them as realistically as possible. I just don't see that happening here. Instead it's doing what's needed for licensing and then splitting hairs over stupid shit that has little bearing on anything to the point that the debates I see are pretty nerdy. Give us a car accident, fall, cardiac or diabetic and we are GOOD! Anything involving harm done by criminals/terrorists, mother nature, or diseases and we are seriously screwed!
I hear you on taking charge but because I'm always thinking outside of the box and not on the same agenda as the rest of the alphas I HIGHLY doubt they'd go for that. A few other things working against me... I'm not PA-Dutch, I don't have 3 or more generations of family at the station, and I don't work Fire/ EMS full time.. Might sound like I'm playing a race card of sorts but it's pretty spot on. I've just grown to accept it but it is what it is. Plus, putting me in charge of the training would point out a LOT of weakness on their part and there's no way in hell they'll let that happen. Rolling their eyes is a LOT easier than explaining why they got infected, killed someone/themselves, etc. during a drill.
-Emt1581
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My two cents. Reactivity to some of those events is understandable, you don't always know what you don't know. However, once they find out they have deficiencies, time to think and train. Some of the lack of training may be fixed by simply asking to train. Sounds silly, but unless it is being brought up, the odds are no one will train. If you are really intent on doing this, see if they will let you take the lead in organizing the training. If they don't have to do the work, they will probably let it happen.
I thought about what I wrote after my OP. And I might have given the impression that I'm hoping my captain/station can tell the future and that's not it. Well, not on a specific level, no. But the whole idea of emergency management is to take the possibilities and plan for them as realistically as possible. I just don't see that happening here. Instead it's doing what's needed for licensing and then splitting hairs over stupid shit that has little bearing on anything to the point that the debates I see are pretty nerdy. Give us a car accident, fall, cardiac or diabetic and we are GOOD! Anything involving harm done by criminals/terrorists, mother nature, or diseases and we are seriously screwed!
I hear you on taking charge but because I'm always thinking outside of the box and not on the same agenda as the rest of the alphas I HIGHLY doubt they'd go for that. A few other things working against me... I'm not PA-Dutch, I don't have 3 or more generations of family at the station, and I don't work Fire/ EMS full time.. Might sound like I'm playing a race card of sorts but it's pretty spot on. I've just grown to accept it but it is what it is. Plus, putting me in charge of the training would point out a LOT of weakness on their part and there's no way in hell they'll let that happen. Rolling their eyes is a LOT easier than explaining why they got infected, killed someone/themselves, etc. during a drill.
-Emt1581
First, you need to not look at training as a place that will point out people's deficiencies. You need to view it as a place that expands upon the tools that people already possess so that they can progress in their abilities. Helps immensely when you change the frame of reference on training with the attitudes of the trainees.
Point two, you need to get a training officer elected (assuming a volunteer station). This will give you the platform you need for the change that is required. It doesn't have to be you, just someone you can run your ideas through if nothing else. Also that position creates accountabilty for training in your station. Without someone being accountable for things, you will never get real change.
Third, if you want progress in training on those large scale incidents, you need to start small. All of those incidents require a bunch of much smaller components to work seamlessly in order for the incident to go well. Take mass casualty incidents for example, it all begins with triage, then a treatment sector, then a transport component, then a person that is familiar with dealing with on-line medical control in having places to take said patients, then people need to be familiar with how to document the patients and the incident. All of those points are easy to train on in small training sessions. Eventually you can put all of those things together. Almost all of those large scale incidents can be put together the same way. Identify areas to train on then put it all together. In that way you don't have a bunch of people that feel like they just got ambushed in training and set up to fail. That will help you get people into it, when they feel successful in managing large scale events they feel like they have accomplished something and you didn't have to piss people off trying to set up giant training scenarios all the freaking time to make your department progress. Realistic goals help you accomplish large scale change. Also, this gives the opportunity for multiple people to become experts in small areas and teach those areas to people. That also garners ownership into the change.
Hope this helps and didn't just sound like me sitting on top of a soap box spouting off my diatribe. And for reference this is how we just went about truly preparing for MCI's and it worked for us.
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