Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography

Short Term ◽

Mobile Positioning ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

The People ◽

Trade Offs ◽

How much should ethnographers involve themselves with the people, places, and processes they study? One answer has become increasingly popular: invert the standard method of participant observation into observant participation. This article draws on an ethnography of ambulance work to consider the trade-offs between these approaches. My fieldwork included “ride-alongs” with labor and management at a private ambulance firm in California (participant observation) and short-term employment as a novice emergency medical technician at the same company (observant participation). Beyond a simplistic distinction in “empirical depth,” I identify three issues at stake between participant observation and observant participation: field positioning, analytic gaze, and data assembly. Where participant observation presents more opportunities for mobile positioning, outward gazing, and inscription, observant participation presents more opportunities for fixed positioning, inward gazing, and incarnation. In addition to justifying such contrasts, I consider the advantages of mixing these styles into a hybrid approach when feasible.

Emergency Medical Technician-Basic: National Standard Curriculum

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e592372009-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

National Standard ◽

Standard Curriculum ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Emergency medical technician dies in ambulance crash - New York.

10.26616/nioshface200112 ◽

2004 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Career fire fighter/emergency medical technician dies from injuries sustained in fall from apparatus - California.

10.26616/nioshfffacef200307 ◽

2004 ◽

Keyword(s):

Fire Fighter ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Fire fighter-emergency medical technician suffers sudden cardiac death after multiple emergency responses - Massachusetts.

10.26616/nioshfffacef200823 ◽

2008 ◽

Keyword(s):

Sudden Cardiac Death ◽

Cardiac Death ◽

Fire Fighter ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Emergency Responses ◽

FEASIBILITY OF STERNAL INTRAOSSEOUS ACCESS BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN STUDENTS

Prehospital Emergency Care ◽

10.1080/10903120590891967 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 73-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

David D. Miller ◽

Guy Guimond ◽

David P. Hostler ◽

Thomas Platt ◽

Henry E. Wang

Keyword(s):

Intraosseous Access ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Interaction, Knowledge and Social Media ◽

Outside the Box: Contextualizing User Experience Challenges in Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic Workflows

10.1007/978-3-030-60152-2_11 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 133-150

Author(s):

Katelynn A. Kapalo ◽

Joseph A. Bonnell ◽

Joseph J. LaViola

Keyword(s):

User Experience ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Medical Technician ◽

Outside The Box

Are Audience Response Systems Worth the Cost? Comparing Question-Driven Teaching Strategies for Emergency Medical Technician Education

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice ◽

10.46743/1540-580x/2018.1704 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lauren Maloney ◽

James Dilger ◽

Paul Werfel ◽

Linda Cimino

Keyword(s):

Teaching Strategies ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Multiple Choice ◽

Audience Response ◽

Multiple Choice Questions ◽

Course Content ◽

Eyes Closed ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Purpose: As Emergency Medical Technician educators develop curricula to meet new national educational standards, effective teaching strategies validated for course content and unique student demographics are warranted. Three methods for answering multiple choice questions presented during lectures were compared: a) Audience Response System (ARS, clickers), b) hand-raising-with-eyes-closed (no-cost option), and c) passive response (no-cost option). The purpose was to determine if using the ARS resulted in improved exam scores. Method: 113 Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) students participated in this cross-over, block randomized, controlled trial, which was incorporated into their Cardiac Emergencies and Pulmonary Emergencies course lectures. Students took pretests, immediate post-tests, and delayed post-tests composed of multiple choice questions that targeted either lower or higher order thinking. Results: For both lectures, there were significant improvements on all immediate post-test scores compared to all pretest scores (p Conclusions: In this cohort, incorporation of no-cost question-driven teaching strategies into lectures was as effective as an ARS at encouraging significant, immediate and sustained improvements in answering multiple choice questions.

Compensation of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)-Basics and Paramedics

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x16001096 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 31 (S1) ◽

pp. S87-S95 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jonathan R. Studnek

Keyword(s):

Mail Survey ◽

Publication Type ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Stratified Sample ◽

And Gender ◽

Annual Earnings ◽

AbstractObjectivesThe objective of this paper is to identify factors associated with compensation for Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)-Basics and Paramedics and assess whether these associations have changed over the period 1999-2008.MethodsData obtained from the Longitudinal EMT Attributes and Demographic Study (LEADS) surveys, a mail survey of a random, stratified sample of nationally certified EMT-Basics and Paramedics, were analyzed. For the 1999-2003 period, analyses included all respondents providing Emergency Medical Services (EMS). With the addition of a survey in 2004 about volunteers, it was possible to exclude volunteers from these analyses.ResultsOver 60% of EMT-Basics reported being either compensated or noncompensated volunteers in the 2004-2008 period. This was substantially and significantly greater than the proportion of EMT-Paramedic volunteers (<25%). The EMT-Paramedics earned significantly more than EMT-Basics, with differentials of $11,000-$18,000 over the course of the study. The major source of earnings disparity was type of organization: respondents employed by fire-based EMS agencies reported significantly higher earnings than other respondents, at both the EMT-Basic and EMT-Paramedic levels. Males also earned significantly more than females, with annual earnings differentials ranging from $7,000 to $15,000.ConclusionsThere are a number of factors associated with compensation disparities within the EMS profession. These include type of service (ie, fire-based vs. other types of agencies) and gender. The reasons for these disparities warrant further investigation.StudnekJR. Compensation of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)-Basics and Paramedics. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(Suppl. 1):s87–s95.