EMS Narrative Writing, Part 1 and Episode 305




MedicCast Audio Podcast for EMT Paramedics and EMS Students show

Summary: Finding our patients, fungal meningitis, and fixing your health with your car, plus we'll look at narrative writing and documentation this week. All that coming up in this episode of the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 305 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Frustrated-nurse-charting-student-sm-300x199.jpg)Welcome to this week's episode of the MedicCast. I'm your host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic. I'd like to welcome all of you to the program this week. We have a lot of great stuff coming up for you including some interesting news items as well as a revisit of a great segment I did with Chris Kaiser from LifeUndertheLights.com (http://lifeunderthelights.com). That segment is on narrative writing, so that's coming up later on in this episode. Before we get to that, though I want to remind you to follow up on all the information you hear in this episode including the news items, the tips and interviews. All those have additional links and resources are put up on the website for you and your job is to follow up on information over there and figure out how it applies to your scope of practice. To find all of that, go over to the MedicCast site at MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog). Once you get there, there's a shownotes link at the top of the page. You can click that to find the most recent episode and scroll on down to find the others. You can also check out the other articles and additional resources and information you'll find over there on the MedicCast site. If you'd like to get back in touch with me you can reach me by e-mail under the e-mail podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I love to hear from you and I do respond back to every e-mail that comes in. If you have a question or comment or correction that I need to make, whatever the case may be, please take time and drop me a note. I love to hear from you. It's great! I heard from several students this past week talking about some of the things they're looking at in their classes. So keep those emails coming in. You can also find the video versions of the show in several places. If you have a Roku Box (http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=roku&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=roku%2Caps%2C694&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Daps)(https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=themediccastp-20&l=ur2&o=1), an Apple TV (http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=apple%20tv&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aapple%20tv&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Daps)(https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=themediccastp-20&l=ur2&o=1) box or something like that linking your TV to the internet, you can view the MedicCast right on your TV. You can also catch the video versions of each week’s episode and the weekly short segments at MedicCast.tv (http://mediccast.tv). EMS World Expo on the Way I want to remind you to check out the information on how you can get to EMS World Expo and get into the exhibit hall for free. If you live in New Orleans or somewhere down there, or you’re thinking about heading down there I can get you into the exhibit hall show floor for free. You can get into the exhibits all three days for free using the promo code FP50. Use FP 50 when you checkout at EMSWorldExpo.com (http://emsworldexpo.com). (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk-150x150.jpg)We do want to thank Physio-Control (http://facebook.com/physiocontrolinc) for being the sponsor of our podcast studio all three days there. If you haven’t already done so, check out their page over on Facebook. You can do that and the say thanks to them for sponsoring our shows. Also, use the Promo Code FP50 at EMSWorldExpo.com when you check out to get free exhibit hall access passes for the conference. How EMS Finds Their Patients I'm always talking here on the MedicCast about helping our public to understand how EMS works.