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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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PCC white paper 6 key strategic points

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  • Clear core identity (define who and what EMS is)
  • Stable funding (ensures resources)
  • Systematic improvement (EMS must be open to change)
  • Personnel development (personal and professional growth for paramedics)
  • Leadership support (knowledge and skills for optimum performance)
  • Mobilized care (EMS is not simply a medical transportation service)
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Federal government

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  • Makes laws based in Canadas constitution
  • Not involved with regulation of health care
  • Sets national principles, provides funding, provides care for certain groups
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Provincial government

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  • Enacts and reviews legislation regarding all healthcare in the province (referred to as acts
  • Defines responsibilities of an EMS service/stretcher service
  • Legally defines ambulance, air ambulance, and stretcher transportation vehicle, patient
  • Legally defines ambulance operator, emergency response technician, and stretcher attendant
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medical directors roles

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  • Educating and training personnel
  • Participating in personnel selection
  • Participating in equipment selection
  • Developing clinical protocols
  • Developing and assisting in QI
  • Providing input into prehospital care
  • Interfacing between EMS systems and other agencies
  • Serving as an EMS advocate to the community
  • Serving as the medical conscience of EMS
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National EMS organizations

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  • Promote uniformity of standards and practice
  • PAC
  • Paramedic Chief of Canada
  • CAEP
  • Heart and stroke foundation
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shared health MB roles

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  • Plan
  • Operational delivery
  • Oversight of consistent high quality EMS
  • PT
  • Oversight various contracts (stars, FD + stretcher services etc.)
  • Our service operator
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HSAL

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  • Regulates healthcare in Manitoba

- Emergency medical services is the branch responsible for administration and enforcement of provincial regulations

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HSAL guiding principles

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  • Safety, effectiveness and sustainability
  • Base-level standards for prehospital care across the province
  • Establish standards for response times in urban, suburban and rural areas
  • Public reporting system performance against established standards
  • Ensure EMS continues to be part of the broader health care system
  • Involves Manitobans in the planning process for EMS delivery
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HSAL provider levels

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  • NOCPs

- EMR/PCP/ACP/CCP

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NOCP educational requirements

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  • Content
  • Environment
  • Didactic awareness
  • Simulated
  • Clinical
  • Field
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10 things you should never post

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  • Profanity
  • Abusive content
  • Negative opinions
  • Adult content
  • Illegal content
  • Offensive
  • Poor grammar
  • Poor spelling
  • Threats
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HSAL personnel licensing

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  • Stipulates requirements for licensing for land, air and stretcher
  • Mandates continuing education through MCCPP
  • Land includes EMR, PCP, ACP and dispatch
  • Air includes aeromedical
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college of PMDs of MB

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  • Protect public interest by regulation of paramedic practice
  • Only registers/ allowing practice to those who meet the requirements
  • Setting appropriate standards
  • Hold members accountable
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National EMS organizations

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  • Promote uniformity of standards and practice
  • PAC
  • Paramedic Chief of Canada
  • CAEP
  • Heart and stroke foundation
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competency maintenance continuing education

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  • Keep up to date with current knowledge

- Required by licensing authority (MCCPP)

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MCCPP

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  • Provided by regulator via PAM or by service provider with regulator approval
  • New process under college of PMD of MB
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College of PMDs of MB objectives

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  • Setting requirements for individuals to enter profession
  • Setting requirements for the practice of the profession
  • Setting up a disciplinary process
  • Setting up a process to evaluate the on going competence of members
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ethics

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  • Rules or standards that govern the conduct of members of a group/profession
  • PAM has a code for its members
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PAM code of ethics

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  • regard their responsibility to the patient and strive to preserve human live
  • provide services based on human need with respect to all
  • respect, protect and fulfill commitment to confidentiality of patient in accordance to law
  • practice their profession uninfluenced by payment
  • Assume all responsibility for actions/ make sure others get recognition they deserve
  • Refuse to participate in unethical conduct and report others doing so
  • Understands and complies with appropriate laws
  • Keep up to date with skills, practice and knowledge
  • Participate in activities that increase public health/encourage peers
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advocacy

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  • Providing treatment as per the patients wishes not your own
  • Do what is in best interest of your patient

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