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Barriers to change fall away in the face of a pandemic. COVID-19 has created the conditions for change, but organizations like ours also need to actively grab onto new ways of doing things.

One of the much-talked about changes is coming soon to the RPPEO. We will be the first to test a new provincial medical directive that will enable paramedics to discharge some patients from care without transporting them to an emergency room.

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A study out of the RPPEO is getting a boost among an important readership.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine has chosen an article from our research team for its 2022 EMS Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reading List.

Julie is the lead author on the publication, Characteristics, Prehospital Management, and Outcomes in Patients Assessed for Hypoglycemia: Repeat Access to Prehospital or Emergency Care. The study was published online in September, 2018 in the scientific journal Prehospital Emergency Care.

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We love it when things go according to plan!

After weeks in development, our first ever created-for-online Fall CME event is now live in MedicLEARN.

The 8 hours of video lessons, case studies and handouts launched on time on Wednesday, October 14.

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As Spring gives way to Summer in June, we'd like to start a new feature in the staff newsletter that's a little more focused on us, the people of the RPPEO. "Getting to Know Us" looks at what we the people of the RPPEO think and do and care about that isn't necessarily central to the work of paramedicine quality and education. It is central to each of us, though!

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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