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By: Steve Whitehead

Steve Whitehead — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:22:45 +0000

Well said all, thanks for your contributions. For better or worse, waiting will always be a part of the job.

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By: Niall

Niall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:43:22 +0000

Its always the shifts you’d like to be quiet or the shifts where you have things to do that are busy.

Then its the midweek nights, nothing on tv and no paper work or the likes to do, where clearly no calls happen!

By: the Happy Medic

the Happy Medic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:20 +0000

Back in my early days I got skunked for an entire pay period. Not one bell for either ambulance on our shift for 2 weeks.

That was 15 years ago.

I haven’t been skunked in the City yet, but close. We have a joke that when we wake up after a quiet night we tell a story about having a vivid dream where we rob a bank, only to turn and see the bank says “Fire Department.”

For every 23 run shift I get, there seems to be a day on the beach with 3 runs and a quiet night not far behind.

Indeed it is balancing the wait and the work. Great post.

Waiting for the bells to ring,
HM

By: Medic999

Medic999 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:00:23 +0000

One of the most annonying things I hear, as a team leader, is when I ask staff on station why stores haven’t been sorted or vehicles haven’t been cleaned etc, when I know they have had spare time on station. The usualy answer is hinged around their belief that the time they have ‘waiting’ on station is their relax time not work time. Some seem to think that when they are not with a patient, they have no other responsibilities.
To say it annoys me is the understatement of the year!
Another great post!

I hope you don’t mind, but I will be borrowing that line!!