On Boxing Day, the Government-ordered shutdown of Ontario began. With new infections hovering near an average of 2.300 a day, deaths increasing to just under 50 a day, and hospitalizations due to COVID reaching about 1,000 each day, the system of alert levels is temporarily suspended. Public Health modelling suggests that Ontario infection rates have not yet peaked. All areas of the province are required to observe additional closures and stay-at-home advisories for non-essential outings until January 9, with all of southern Ontario under shutdown until January 23.

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In Celebration of National Health Ethics Week, the Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics invites all staff to Attend Regional Ethics Rounds!

This month’s topic is “ Shooting for the moon – development and distribution of a vaccine in a global pandemic”

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We're really pleased to share information and data with paramedics on social media this week. The plan is to highlight some of the new patient safety initiatives we've brought to reality over the last 18 months, and how paramedics are making these improvements possible.

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On International Women's Day (IWD) March 8, Lanark County, the Ottawa Paramedic Service (OPS) and others took to social media to demonstrate that women are part of every aspect of their services.

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With the next BLS PCS coming in January from the Emergency Health Services Branch of the Ministry of Health, we'll see changes to the Acute Stroke Bypass Protocol.

To support those changes, CorHealth Ontario has released a self-training education module for all paramedics implementing the new secondary screen when assessing clients with stroke.

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Some of us, without mentioning any names, prefer to sit under the ELM tree only when we absolutely have to.

With the January 31 deadline looming for completing our annual mandatory education on the Enterprise Learning Management (also known by its acronym, ELM) system, the Ottawa Hospital (TOH) has graciously moved the deadline back a month.

The new deadline of February 28 comes with a firm warning for us though: if staff don't complete the online training by the end of February, there shall be discipline.

The training modules are mostly updated for this year, so you'll have something new to look at.

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The Ministry of Health has released updates to the BLS and ALS PCS and the Patient Care and Transportation Standards. 

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Now online RPPEO ESP Submission Time Sheet

This new tool will allow you to quickly submit a time sheet to your manager and to payroll, and stores your entries so you can review later.

The Form is divied into a few sections:

MYOBH Bite-Sized Training

Our first-ever training session for content development in our MedicX suite of tools is a go! Called MYOBH Bite-Sized Training, Frank announced the live training date to partner base hospitals last week.

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When going with recorded online modules for 2020 Fall CME meant losing interactive classroom discussions, we turned to an idea as old as the internet itself: discussion forums.

Now the forums we created in MedicLEARN gap are super active with great suggestions and thoughtful questions.

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