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Change Managers or Change Leaders?

Started Jun 11, 2013

What makes you a better Fire Officer - Experience or Education?
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Worker Compensation claims during the Covid -19 Pandemic

Worker Compensation claims during the Covid -19 PandemicAmerica appreciates the first responders who place their lives on the line every day during this C-19 pandemic. Unfortunately some of us become sick and some will die as a result of this exposure. For those who are working in this hazardous environment, there is an associated amount of stress that you may contract the disease and affect friends, co-workers and family members.With much of the country in “quarantine” and our general ability…See More

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Medical Record Confidentiality - Protecting PHI

Aug 29, 2019

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Medical Record Confidentiality - Protecting PHI

Aug 29, 2019

John K. Murphy posted a blog post

Medical Record Confidentiality - Protecting PHI

The fire service creates and manages a lot of records including personnel files, personnel medical records, inspection reports, personnel action forms (better known as discipline or corrective action), vacation requests and many others. Many of those records have some protection, a lot of protection or no protection subject to public disclosure laws.One set of records with the highest level of protections are the medical records created during EMS responses protecting patient health information…See More

Aug 24, 2019

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Good Followers Enable Good Leaders

Jul 30, 2019

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Good Followers Enable Good Leaders

Ronal Regan once said, “surround yourself with great people, delegate authority and get out of the way” is easy to say but may be difficult to accomplish especially if you don’t have capable followers.Followership is a unique skill set in all of industry and for many of the current fire service leaders, there was a point in time, quite possibly through your whole career you were an amazing follower learning, listening and supporting the long term direction of your fire department and its…See More

Jul 26, 2019

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Leading From the Bottom Up

Jun 26, 2019

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Leading From the Bottom Up

The fire service has been described as paramilitary organization with a leadership organized in a top down fashion. In other words, one person does the thinking, one person directs the organization and one person takes responsibility. Is that right? Is that how your organization operates?I was stimulated to author this article based on the belief that we can lead and manage better if we involve all of the personnel in your department from the bottom up – invert the leadership pyramid.As Deputy…See More

Jun 24, 2019

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Lives in:: North Bend, Washington

Department:: Eastside Fire & Rescue

Title/rank:: Deputy Fire Chief (Ret.)

Years of public service:: 32

Agency structure:: Combination fire department

Top issues in your department:: Staffing
Funding
Residental sprinklers
Retention of volunteers

Professional Qualifications:: Attorney at Law (JD)
Masters in Education (MS)
Bachelors in Health - Paramedicine (BS)
Physicians Assistant - Certified (PA-C)
Executive Fire Officer Graduate (EFO)

Topics you provide training for:: Legal
Medical
Organizational Development
Hiring
Internal Investigations and Discipline
Policy Development and Review
Interviewing

Areas of expertise:: Legal
Medical
Operational
Organizational
Human Resources
Training

Bio:: John K. Murphy, J.D. M.S, PA-C, EFO
Deputy Fire Chief (Ret)

Chief Murphy retired as the Deputy Fire Chief with Eastside Fire & Rescue (Issaquah WA) and Fire Chief of the City of Sammamish (WA) after 32 years of service. He is a practicing attorney licensed in Washington and New York focusing on employment practices liability, training safety, employment policy and practices; litigation support; forensic evaluation on fire and EMS operations; internal investigations and consulting on risk management for private and public entities.

He is the principle in the Murphy Law Group and Vice President of M2 Resource Group, Inc., a consulting company specializing in Fire and EMS legal and operational issues and a Physicians Assistant. Chief Murphy a frequent conference speaker and contributing author with Fire Engineering Magazine.

Chief Murphy’s past medical and fire experience includes; paramedic firefighter for more than 20 years; Chief Fire Officer; Chief of Training and Chief of Operations; Health and Safety Officer; a promoter and facilitator of health-care issues in the fire service and a practicing Physicians’ Assistant since 1977 with a focus in emergency care and family practice. Chief Murphy was a US Navy Corpsman serving with the Marine Corps.

Chief Murphy has a Juris Doctor (JD) from Seattle University School of Law; Masters of Science (MS) and Bachelors of Science (BS) in Education from Central Washington University, graduated from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine, Physicians Assistant Program (MEDEX) and is an Executive Fire Officer (EFO) Graduate.

He is a member of the following Associations: Association of Fire Service Attorneys; National Society of Executive Fire Officers; International Association of Fire Chief’s (IAFC); ISFSI; Washington State Bar Association; King County Bar Association; New York Bar Association, U.S. District Court Western District of Washington and a former member of the Washington Fire Chief’s Association. He is an Adjunct Faculty with the University of Florida's Fire and Emergency Service program

He is the author of two books:

Legal, Political & Regulatory Environment in EMS
ISBN-10: 0135036038 • ISBN-13: 9780135036037©2015 • Prentice Hall

Cooling the Flames: Communication, Control and De-escalation of Mentally Ill and Aggressive Patients – A Comprehensive Guidebook for Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services, Author: Ellis Amdur, John K. Murphy, Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc.,
ISBN No: 9781618131966

Web site:: http://www.murphylawgroup.org

John K. Murphy's Blog

Worker Compensation claims during the Covid -19 Pandemic

Worker Compensation claims during the Covid -19 Pandemic

America appreciates the first responders who place their lives on the line every day during this C-19 pandemic. Unfortunately some of us become sick and some will die as a result of this exposure. For those who are working in this hazardous environment, there is an associated amount of stress that you may contract the disease and affect friends, co-workers and family members.

With much of the country in…

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Posted on January 3, 2021 at 11:57am

Medical Record Confidentiality - Protecting PHI

One set of records with the highest level of protections are the…

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Posted on August 24, 2019 at 11:00am

Good Followers Enable Good Leaders

Followership is a unique skill set in all of industry and for many of the current fire service leaders, there was a point in time, quite possibly through your whole career you were an amazing follower learning,…

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Posted on July 26, 2019 at 3:00pm

Leading From the Bottom Up

I was stimulated to author this article based on the belief that we can lead and manage better if we involve all of the personnel…

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Posted on June 24, 2019 at 4:30pm

Avoiding a legal firestorm -- Lawyer911

One of the issues facing fire service leadership is when to call an experienced attorney to assist the department in mitigating a problematic legal issue in their department. Every fire department chief has interacted with an attorney on a routine rather than emergent legal issues facing the department. Those range from labor contracts, policy creation, purchasing fire apparatus or firefighter safety gear, acquiring property and building new station to working on complex legal issues of…

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Posted on May 19, 2019 at 4:00pm

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At 3:19pm on January 30, 2012, Christopher Huston said…: Thank you for your kind words regarding my article "Owning Training". -chris

At 2:28pm on January 23, 2011, Shawn Crimmins said…: Tumwater is going great. Keeping busy with the family and work. I dont know if you heard or not but my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She is currently going through chemo and doing pretty well considering. We set a website up for her treatment. Feel free to leave a comment for her. I hope everything is going well for you. Moms page That is moms link. Talk to you soon.

At 2:53pm on July 2, 2010, Michael Bricault (ret) said…: -John, we're in need of a really good labor lawyer here in Albuquerque. Do you travel or consult this far?

At 9:29am on April 12, 2010, michelle maher said…: I would just like to say thank you for the article.

At 9:52am on April 23, 2008, John K. Murphy said…: We are one big family

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