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Hi all, I work at a rural law enforcement agency. Our primary goal is law enforcement but we do have quite a few EMTs as well. The problem is we spend good money to get the everyone trained for EMT then they leave the program soon after because they do not want to do it anymore. being law is a big responsibility then add on medical liabilities too. Anyone have any suggestiong to help keep moral up? and what can we do to entice people to become and EMT and maintain it too? thanks alot
 
Does your agency offer higher pay rates for those who get their EMT? I'm thinking the extra responsibility would not be worth the extra liability without some form of compensation.
 
Sadly enough...no that is what we want to do but not looking good but thanks
 
My jobs never did much for my morals...I kind of developed them on my own...sadly, some people never get that far.
 
I guess there has to be an interest there in the first place.

Could you put on some extra paid classes, maybe with a law enforcement spin to the? (Are these people LEO's who you'd like to have EMT duties also? Or EMT-only people that your agency hires? Do they respond in ambulances? Do they get along with the LE side?)
 
Morals or morale?
 
Ok... moral, morale, or more owls?

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We are all law enforcement, no rescue squads, and they all volunteer for being and EMT(not voluntold) So we go out in the field and do our patrol duties and if the EMT side arises we take care of that, till the rescue squad arrives usually not real fast either,

We get paid trainings just not cutting it so far
 
Seems to me the only way to get people to stay is to give them a (however small) bump in salary.

But on the opposite side of the coin, you'll have people taking the EMT course just for the bump in salary, and not because they're genuinely interested in the medical side of things a la firehouse syndrome.

Maybe a small call bonus for each patient they perform documented interventions on?
 
DogPoundMedic said:
We are all law enforcement, no rescue squads, and they all volunteer for being and EMT(not voluntold) So we go out in the field and do our patrol duties and if the EMT side arises we take care of that, till the rescue squad arrives usually not real fast either,

We get paid trainings just not cutting it so far
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Is there anyway to make the trainings more fun? Or integrate a "coolness" factor to them (which I usually don't agree with, but if it's just an add-on to their LE job until EMS arrives, then it's better than nothing).
 
Sorry, Sisters...

Have chicks teach it.

Get another cop from another area whose partner got messed up and he/she didn't know what to do to share the experience. I bet you can find a service somewhere close who had that very thing happen and the cops there embraced the idea of training that could save a life.
 
Where are most of them leaving to? If they all leave for larger better paying agencies, then you probably have your answer there.

Extra pay isnt bad. If someone takes the EMT class only to get higher pay, it still puts EMTs on your schedule. Most agencies I know are not in a spot to start getting picky about who their EMTs are. You can be a competent EMT but not have a "calling" to the field. Not everything in EMS has to be a labor of love.

I suspect that EMS in your area is the bass-terd child of the emergency response system, as it is in most areas. How about sending your EMTs through a TEMS class to tie in their police work with EMT? Or find other ways to elevate their status or prestige within the agency. Allow them uniforms different from normal units, make the EMS equipped cruisers the newest/coolest ones in the fleet.
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far...
-The EMTs are not leaving for other agencies they are just not renewing their card do to not alot of EMT work
-Lack of traininging, I am pushing for more and better training too
-Or just do not want the liability/responsibility
 
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