Blue pen ink on forms

[emtannie]

We have never had any issues with blue ink at the service I work for. A non-EMS career I had previously required blue ink only in order to prove original copies and signatures.

On the patient care reports we used to use ( we too have entered the technology age and use computerized reporting now) they were triplicate, and you had to press hard to just get the third copy to be readable... but the time you got to the third copy, it didn't matter if your original was blue or black, as long as it was legible.

[Richard B the EMT]

One of my associates insists on writing all his call reports with a specific shade of blue ink. This shade, apparently, doesn't show up on photocopies, and is supposedly used by newspaper editors.

This way, if called to court, his comments on paper can only be confirmed by having the actual call report in front of him, as it seems he doesn't trust photocopies of his paperwork.