The Resilient 911 Professional

The Resilient 911 Professional
Author: Jim Marshall
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546435273

9-1-1 telecommunicators are heavily exposed to traumatic stressors in the line of duty as our nation's Very First Responders. They struggle with PTSD at a rate believed to be four to five times higher than the general public. These 9-1-1 Professionals and their leaders must be equipped to protect their own well-being, and to safeguard the performance of our 9-1-1 centers facing an ever more demanding future. The 911 Training Institute is proud to announce the release of a book that will finally meet this need: The Resilient 9-1-1 Professional: A Comprehensive Guide to Surviving & Thriving Together in the 9-1-1 Center. This volume, edited by Jim Marshall and Tracey Laorenza, brings together an unprecedented group including 9-1-1 frontliners, their managers, joined by subject matter experts in public-safety, mental health and public administration. Together they deliver powerful stories and fascinating science revealing the health risks faced by "9-1-1Pros" and a full spectrum of solutions to manage these risks and optimize the personal and organizational well-being in our 9-1-1 centers. This book stands alone in the 9-1-1 industry and serves as essential training for all front-line dispatchers, supervisors, and managers/directors. It is also imperative reading for all those who influence and benefit from 9-1-1 emergency services: field responders, government officials, mental health professionals; all organizations that aid public-safety agencies; and, all those family and friends who love a dispatcher. Dispatchers face very high stakes every day. Our investment as a nation of 9-1-1 stakeholders in supporting and empowering them must be equally as high.

Answering 911

Answering 911
Author: Caroline Burau
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0873516540

A rookie 911 operator writes with humor, empathy, and amazing candor of the demanding job that changes her life forever.

Master the Public Safety Dispatcher/911 Operator, 4th edition

Master the Public Safety Dispatcher/911 Operator, 4th edition
Author: Peterson's
Publisher: Peterson's
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0768940621

Master the Public Safety Dispatcher/911 Operator Exam provides everything you need to succeed on the exam, including two full-length practice tests, thorough review of every question type on the exam, proven test-taking strategies to help you score higher, and comprehensive information for beginning and advanced-level emergency personnel. Also, expert tips on how to best analyze job announcements and interviewing successfully are included to give you an edge over the competition.

ReVisionary Thinking

ReVisionary Thinking
Author: Courtney Clark
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1640953701

How do you get the life you want when things aren’t going your way? When things go sideways, most people make one of two mistakes: they either give up on their dreams or they NEVER give up on their dreams, even when those dreams aren’t serving them. You can change your plans and still reach your goals. Scratch that. You HAVE to change your plans to reach your goals. That’s the real work of resilience. Resilience isn’t superhuman internal strength. It’s not toxic positivity. It’s not sucking it up to stick it out. True resilience is letting go of the “old way of doing things” and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you’re going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility. Specific principles covered include: How to mourn your path without sacrificing your goal Why your gut instinct fails you in unfamiliar situations—and how to counter it How to create space for more and better choices The benefits of using storytelling to solve problems And much more! Success is not determined by how good you plan is (or was), but rather by how willing you are to design a new one when you need to. You may not have chosen where you are, but you get a choice in what comes next. The success of your vision lies in the ReVision.

Dispatcher Stress

Dispatcher Stress
Author: Adam Timm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990021667

Burnout is the state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It happens when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. You begin to feel like you have no real control over your job...or your life. Sound familiar? This is an all-too-common experience for dispatchers, but it doesn't have to be that way. In this book, Adam Timm, former LAPD dispatcher, and I outline ways you can turn your life around faster than you ever thought possible. When you put the tools and techniques from Dispatcher Stress in place, you will: -Feel relief from tension, frustration, and insomnia -Be free to do the things you really want to do -Relax in the midst of the toughest challenges -Experience clarity and peace of mind again

The Resilience Advantage

The Resilience Advantage
Author: Richard S. Citrin
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631573748

Imagine if we stopped trying to “manage” the stress in our workplaces and personal lives. What if we recognized, instead, that the challenges we face every day could actually make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We wouldn’t feel victimized by the stress in our lives; with a change in how we view these challenges, we become capable of resolving them and winning the day. Global businesses, governments, and communities are profoundly changing their approaches to adversity and challenges. The Resilience Advantage reveals the techniques and methodology we all can apply in our workplaces and homes. Filled with professional and personal stories, pragmatic research, powerful case studies, and practical actionable tools, this book IS the formula to help each of us turn our challenges into our Resilience Advantage.

Resilience

Resilience
Author: Lisa Lisson
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1773050982

An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson Lisa LissonÕs life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president) of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled that their lives seemed perfectly happy. Just a few hours later, everything changed. One moment Lisa was sleeping beside Patrick, and the next, she was kneeling on the floor beside his unconscious body frantically administering CPR. Patrick had had a massive heart attack and was in a coma, and the doctors were blunt: there was no hope. But for the next two years, Lisa stood by his side and awaited a miracle, while continuing to balance life as a high-powered executive and mother of four. Part leadership guide, part memoir of loss, and part personal empowerment primer on how to achieve your goals no matter what the universe throws at you, Resilience is an inspirational story about how to rise to the top in a manÕs world, triumph over adversity, lead a fulfilling life, and live each day with purpose and gratitude.

Handbook of Leisure, Physical Activity, Sports, Recreation and Quality of Life

Handbook of Leisure, Physical Activity, Sports, Recreation and Quality of Life
Author: Lía Rodriguez de la Vega
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 3319755293

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life. Divided into two parts, the text presents the analysis of leisure and recreation studies and physical activities and sports, with diverse populations. The first part deals with leisure and recreation in relation to quality of life, with different perspectives on different age groups, ethnic groups, the approach of an Integrated Model of Leisure Well-being focusing on how leisure activities contribute to leisure well-being etc. The second part deals with physical activities and sports in relation to quality of life, discussing the consideration that "exercise is good for you", associating physical exercise with other conditions of life in society, its impact on people with disabilities, etc. It is of interest to researchers and students, legislators, educators, providers of leisure services.

People Driven Leadership

People Driven Leadership
Author: Adam Timm
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578666419

DISCOVER PROVEN PRACTICES THE BEST 9-1-1 CENTERS USE TO BOOST MORALE AND INSPIRE HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTUREThe vast majority of 9-1-1 communications centers grapple with the same problems, year-after-year: high turnover, low morale, mandatory overtime. Leaders at certain centers have opted for a different approach, breaking years-long cycles and closing the revolving door. These exemplary centers have reduced sick time usage by over 50%, halved overtime spending, and improved trainee success rates by 60%. They have gone from an average of 40% turnover to virtually eliminating turnover.As complicated and overwhelming as the 9-1-1 industry's challenges may seem, their solution is deceptively simple. This book, based on dozens of interviews with managers, directors and supervisors from centers across the United States, offers an accessible blueprint for any center looking to make a positive change. The problems are universal, and so are the solutions.

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309495474

Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.