Morale Issues

[NNJEMT]

this one usually means "pain in the a$$"

[pyroknight]

Virginia Department of EMS has a great series on recruitment and retention.

Virginia EMS

[Dustdevil]

But we do have a picnic every year, alcohol free, it's a family event. Alcohol and emergency services don't mix, leave that at home.

LOL! There is a weekend-long camp out/picnic/concert/chili cook-off at Dr. Bledsoe's farm every year for EMS providers that is a cool deal. Unfortunately, I think they got the rules backwards on it though. They encourage alcohol, but prohibit firearms. :?

[MeekoBB]

Every year in January my agency has a dinner paid by the city where we do awards for silly stuff like Darwin's Awards, the Coverage King (one of our members covered like 2 shifts a week on top of his primary for almost the whole year), we had a member that was in the hospital for more times than we can count for anaphylaxis (latex allergies, was in hospital for transport pickup and they were using latex paint and neglected to make notices). We give out the serious awards too. certificates and pins for members that served 5 years, CPRs, we rarely get child births as we have too many hospitals too close, we usually get there just in time for the ER to take credit for the bundle of joy.

But through out the year we do a variety of stuff.... Last year we went horseback riding, every august we hold a Luau (sp?) for members as a combo party/member drive. Our carwash is mostly a wash for us....we eat and drink the earnings away the same day

I tried planning a theme park trip for this summer but we have a few who like killing the joy. So i scrapped it and cancelled it. Phuck them all.

[itku2er]

If you like send me a pm or email i will share with you the things we did on our volly squad to get membership and reward the ones we have. Fell free to pm or email me its too lengthy to list them all here

itku2er@yahoo.com

Later

Terr