As of July 2019, the MCFRS public education section (now called Community Risk Reduction) has moved from the Vol and Community Ed Services Division to the Office of the Fire Chief. With that move, the links for public education documentation and Wufoo form have moved on Quicklinks. Here are directions to find the new location.
Go to Quicklinks.
Click to expand the Fire Chief menu and choose Pub Ed Report Form.
Enter the password (as shown below) and click the Submit button.
Use the form.
Scenario: Your employee was detailed off the floor for part of a shift. You are now reviewing the timecard in MCtime.
Background: The department is now tracking details off the floor in MCtime, so that we can associate a dollar figure with the overtime required to backfill the detail. Also, any request for details will now be entered in a separate form and approved (or not) by a division chief. The approval form includes a specific reason code, as noted in the following process. See the bottom of this TechTip for a sample approval Click here to view the employee side of this TechTip.
The Timecard:
The Explanation:
Notes:
Daily View:
All:
Scenario: You have been detailed off the floor for part of your shift and need to record those hours in MCtime.
Background: The department is now tracking details off the floor in MCtime, so that we can associate a dollar figure with the overtime required to backfill the detail. Also, any request for the detail will now be entered in a separate form and approved (or not) by a division chief. The approval form will include a specific reason code, to be used in the following process. See the bottom of this TechTip for a sample approval message.
The Process for the Employee Showing the Detail in MCtime:
Notes:
Sample Approval E-Mail Message:
Scenario: You arrive at the scene to find the patient obviously deceased and the family member present said that the patient had a heart attack in his sleep. In this scenario, you did not attempt to resuscitate the patient. Here are the fields you will need to change in Elite that differ from the typical patient report, but this TechTip does not address all of the other fields you should be filling in that are typical of any call in your talented report writing skill.
| Menu | Tab | Field | Best Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Call Info | Disposition | Primary Role | Non-Transport - Other Reason |
| Call Info | Disposition | T&T Disposition | Dead at Scene Without Interventions (No Transport) |
| Call Info | Conditions | Cardiac Arrest | Yes, Prior to EMS Arrival |
| Chief Complaint | Date/Time of Onset | (Use, if known) | |
| Patient | Chief Complaint | Primary Symptom | Cardiac Arrest |
| Patient | Assessment | Primary Impression | Obvious Death |
| Patient | Assessment | Assessment | (Whatever led you to pronounce death) |
| Patient | Cardiac Arrest | Resuscitation Attempted by 911 | No |
| Patient | Cardiac Arrest | End of EMS Event | Pronounced in Field |
| Provider Actions | Vitals | Vitals | (Need one set, including 0 for pulse and 0 for respiration rate) |
| Provider Actions | TOR/POD | Criteria for POD | Rigor Mortis |
Scenario: You are a career officer or LFRD training coordinator and need to check off some of your personnel in a tech training subsite for the training project of the month. (Note: Only some of the subsites offer this capability; some check-offs are based upon the individual completing a course on his/her own.) Examples include Alzheimer’s training and IRP-Spec Ops (technical rescue and water rescue).
Logging in
Go to the site, either by direct link (as provided in an FCGO or direct e-mail message from the Ops chief, for example) or via the tech training website chief section (lower-right corner of the chief main page – see the bullet list).
Navigating to the Correct Check-Off Page
Scenario: Your patient is unconscious and has no ID in his wallet. Aside from being the worst mime act you have seen today, you have no information on him. How to record his name in Elite?
Contrary to what some will tell you, you should not call him John Doe (or anything punny but close) when you need to input a first and last name. Doing so implies that this is his actual name and you took that specific person to the hospital, as far as the people who are analyzing the reports are concerned.*
Instead, remember that you have options (Refused for people who refuse and Unable to Complete when you just don’t have the name and he is incapable of providing it).
Click the No/Not button next to the First Name.
Click the appropriate choice thereafter.
Repeat for the Last Name field.
Then again, if you actually run the real John Doe to the hospital, you should record the name. You just may want to reiterate in the narrative that it’s his real name.
Scenario: Your patient has a bottle of medicine that you need to record but one that is not in Elite. There’s no Other option in the drop-down list. How should you record it?
Click in the Other Medical History input box and add the medicine(s) there.
Follow this up with e-mailing the name of the medicine(s) to Tim Burns (Tim.Burns@montgomerycountymd.gov) and he will have the medicines added to the Current Medications drop-down list. Please double-check your spelling.
Scenario: Your patient has declined (however forcefully) to share his/her phone number with you and it’s a required field in Elite. What to do?
If you leave the field blank: You will lose five (5) points toward your completion total.
If you type all 9s (999-999-9999, consistent with the SSN approach): You will not lose any points toward your completion total but you will still get a validation error, which explains that is it preferable to get a valid phone number.
Scenario: You are an ALS provider who needs to report a downgrade in Elite. The BLS provider has transported the patient in his/her ambulance and you intend to try to return to Station 8 without being dispatched. What do you need to report?
Ensure you are writing the report with the Unit/Call Sign as the ALS unit on the call.
Switch to the Call Info menu and Disposition tab to change the Primary Role of the Unit at the End of Incident to Non-Transport-Other Reason and The Treatment & Transport Disposition field to Operational Support Provided – Patient Contact (if there was PT contact).
Leave the Patient Side Time blank. (Yes, it will be red, but it won’t trigger the additional validation rules this way.)
Remember, just as with the previous version of eMEDS, you still need to write a narrative to explain why you chose to downgrade the patient.
Scenario: Your cardiac patient took aspirin prior to your arrival and you need to document this.
Change to the Provider Actions menu and Medication tab and click the Add button.
Fill in the necessary files. For the Crew Giving Medication field, use either Other Non-Healthcare Provider (for people unrelated to healthcare organizations) or Other Healthcare Provider (for doctors, nurses, hospital/urgent care personnel, etc).
