Palliative Care Treat & Refer Directives are now available.
The Palliative Care Medical Directives provide the standards of paramedic care for patients receiving palliative care who are attended by emergency paramedics participating in the Ministry of Health's special project, Paramedics Providing Palliative Care.
In early April 2016, the RPPEO introduced a new tool for Paramedics wishing to report a concern or variance. The Self Report form has been used just over 1300 times to report concerns, variances, and most importantly to help improve patient safety for everyone involved. A very big thank you to everyone who has contributed over the past 4 years.
It is time to retire the Self Report form. In its place the RPPEO is launching a new tool, the Patient Safety Incident Report. This new tool will also replace the Patch Failure tool, and allow for paramedics to report on:
Congratulations Justin and Sandra for amazing efforts. You have both have touch so many lives and saved numerous! Your efforts will go down in history!! Great work I am honoured to know both of you.
An official announcement has been made, the RPPEO has won the Power of a System award in Patient Safety Education from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute
The Innovations in Patient Safety Education (IPSE) Awards recognize organizations, groups and individuals that demonstrate exemplary practices in patient safety and quality improvement using the Patient Safety Education Program – Canada (PSEP – Canada). Patient safety trainers from healthcare organizations across the country are eligible for awards in three categories: the Power of One, the Power of an Organization and the Power of a System.
Due to the measures we are taking to stem the spread of COVID-19, the RPPEO has canceled classroom CME this Spring. In its place, we will be offering virtual CME for ACPs. The deadline for CME completion is January 31, 2021.
Once the complete content of virtual Spring CME is ready, we will notify paramedics.
The online pre-learning modules are LIVE irght now. Head over to MedicLEARN for the experience.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting almost everything in our lives and clinical practice … even medication supplies! Increased demand is fueling medication shortages in some cases. In other cases, the active ingredient is not available locally or manufacturing has slowed down. All of these lead to the same results: medication is harder to supply.