Job Title: Regional Medical Manager
How many years at STATMedEvac: 13 years
Job Title: Sr. Professional Flight Nurse II
How many years at STATMedEvac: 5 years
FULL CIRCLE
By Ed DeWitt
It was all part of her plan. Seventeen years after a life-changing experience aboard a STAT MedEvac helicopter, Trista Weiss, RN, UPMC senior professional flight nurse II, now works for the very team that she credits with setting her on a path toward a career of service.
Trista’s journey in health care started with a scary bike accident. “I have both an older and younger brother, and when we were growing up, we all competitively raced BMX bikes,” she said. “When I was 8, we were training for some races. We were riding down our street and my brothers were ahead of me, and I was trying to catch up. I lost control of my bike. I’m not sure what happened. I just remember my steering wheel kind of going crazy, and next thing you know, I was unconscious.”
The way Trista’s bike landed resulted […]
Over the last month, we have collected some thoughts on how to fix the current EMS recruitment and retention issues. Thanks to those who commented on Facebook, Instagram, called the podcast hotline and talked to us live at the EMS West Update at Seven Springs.
Thanks to Greg Porter, Ross/West View EMSA, Jeff Kelly, Medical Rescue Team South, Deb Hoffman, Silver Springs Ambulance Service, Kiley Cribbs, Butler County Community College as well as Mark Hansen, Kurt Dively, George Neat, Ally Marie Ward, and Ben Whitehill who commented on social media or left us a voice mail.
Opinions are not those of CEM/ STAT MedEvac.
You can discover it. It’s right inside you; you just need to know where to look. Every person in the world who has done anything extraordinary has used the power of insight. I call this “new intuition” or “radical” intuition. It is a much bigger vision of intuition than we have understood in the past ~ placing our inner guidance, or genius, as a vital complement to the intellect. – Kim Chestney, Intuition Specialist
For more information: www.KimChestney.com
Night shifts often entail working past midnight into the early morning hours and is a common feature of shift schedules for most in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and other sectors of public safety.
For those in EMS who frequently work night shifts on a regular basis, or occasionally on a rotating schedule, fatigue and daytime sleepiness are common – especially during the early morning hours. Fatigue related to shift work can carry over into the post-shift work period and impact how alert, sleepy, and fatigued one feels during the first 24 hours post-shift – the recovery period, which sometimes does not feel much like recovery.
Shift work is not going away. Our society operates 24 hours-a-day and emergencies are not scheduled. All who work in public safety, including EMS, understand that we must be available at all hours and quickly respond to the needs of the acutely ill and injured. […]
