Podcast Assignment objective: In this assignment, you are the new emergency services division training officer. One of your goals is to make sure you reinforce paramedic/firefighters’ understanding of the legality of texting patient information. Recently, during patient transports, paramedic/firefighters began using texting to transmit the patient’s name, chief complaint, vital signs, and symptoms using OPQRST (Onset, Provocation/Palliation, Quality, Region/Radiation, Severity, and Time-an acronym used by medical professionals to accurately discern reasons for a patient’s symptoms and history in the event of an acute illness) to the receiving hospital instead of doing a radio report. This has become an easy way to relay information and captured images of the patient quickly to allow the nurses to begin patient care reports and understand the extent of the patient’s condition. You understand, while this may seem harmless, it is potentially placing the patient’s data in the hands of cyber criminals or anyone else who could see the text on the phone or even gain access to this information if you make a mistake tapping the wrong name on your contacts. You are considering a traditional in-service training program relying on field training officers to bring their knowledge and experience to the training; however, you realize that this could lack consistency because of the number of stations, different shifts, and personnel, so you decide to create a podcast that could be reviewed during their downtime.
