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.
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.
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.
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.
The Ministry of Health has released updates to the BLS and ALS PCS and the Patient Care and Transportation Standards.
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:
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.
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.
More than two months into the pandemic response, you may be having more intrusive feelings than usual. Work, home and everything in between is still very different this week than it was at the beginning of the year. The uncertainty and stress may be taking their toll.
After undergoing laminoplasty this winter, Julie came back to work at the beginning of May sporting a little extra hardware. Surgeons gave her four plates and 11 screws to open up the lower cervical vertebrae giving the spinal canal a bit more space. She assures us that all of her new screws are secure and not the least bit loose. Glad you're back, Julie!
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