Bubble forms have always bothered me. One day this snotty girl comes in and starts to talk to us about how we had to start doing these big scantrons after every call. One for every patient from every call I might add. Now, why are we doing bubble forms. Who neglected to fight this battle when it first came to us. They should be fired.
Oh my,,,,,,,,,all parties involved when bubble forms came along have no interest or ability to directly represent us anymore.
That is the biggest bunch of bull**** that I have ever heard.
I know a good deal of people around this country in public and private EMS. I know people in management and government as it relates to EMS. Nobody is required to obtain statistics as a part of their job except for us. In fact, if a governing body that requires me to collect statistical data on my ambulance that sometimes has a fire medic riding along, writing the same PCR (secondary) why does that fire medic not complete the same bubble form? Why is it that my county EMS director told me that the taxes collected for EMS in this county were partially used to pay for PCRs, then AMR brought in their own PCR that was a replicant of the county PCR, just with the added bonus of a bubble form. The county never required this change in working conditions. They are happy to pass the printing cost aside but never required the bubble form. If State EMSA required it then the fire medics would be doing it also.
As far as I am concerned, AMR is making money off of selling data research and we are stuck with the workload without compensation.
I am so happy that all of my representation has cleaned itself out. The worst thing that ever happened to us were those damn bubble forms.
Well guess what, in our counties, they are required by our governing agency. And since they take about 2 min. to fill out, I don't consider them to be such a huge increase in my workday.
Don't get me started on Fire Department pricks. Every politician in the world wants their public support come election time. They get to do whatever the **** the want in most counties. Especially after the New York Fire Chiefs forgot rule #1 (protect yourself first) on Sept.11. Too bad we've never had a union that would be a little proactive in local politics, you might not have had to do those bubbles you clearly don't like.
I cant blame 250 for the bubble forms. After all, here in CoCo weve never had the bubble forms. I think alot of it is county dependent. But if we want to hold the union accountable for it, then I give props to my union for keeping them out of my county.
As for taking you only two minutes to complete your bubble forms, you must have awfully big bubbles where you're at because my ****ing bubble forms take a lot longer than a few minutes. They are double sided and reduntant. We have to put in two sets of vital signs on our bubble forms. **** this ****!! I'm sick of my job. I'm transferring to COCO where the working conditions are decent.
