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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Exhausted or frustrated? Experts say, either way, you're human.

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.

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Our BIONIC woman

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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Our BIONIC woman

We've seen medication shortages before, but not like this. With the COVID-19 pandemic demanding more medications and supply chains broken, a lot of important drugs that we use in healthcare are getting scarce.

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Prescott-Russell Paramedic Service is now the second service to implement the auxiliary medical directive, Assessment of Patients with Possible COVID-19.

Prescott-Russell last Friday joined Hastings-Quinte in using the new directive. The move follows a high proportion of the service's paramedics completing online education for the directive.

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It was a Year Like No Other for All of Us

In a year where we focused on coping and wellbeing over productivity, the measures of RPPEO successes are unlike other years. As we moved through the tension of unknowns and the stress of continuous adaptation, 2020 challenged us to grow as people - and as an organization. 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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