Developing Training Materials in Completing Ambulance Safety Checks as a Best Practice
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Developing Training Materials in
Completing Ambulance Safety Checks
as a Best Practice
Quality Forum 2016
Rapid Fire Presentation (Seed)
Introductions
Teresa White, PCP, MA Education Officer, Paramedic
(Project Lead)
Ken Wilcox, PCP, Education Officer, Paramedic
(Project Lead)
Katharine Chan, BSc, MSc Leader, Quality, Patient Safety and Accreditation
(Project Facilitator)
Disclosure Statement
We do not have involvement with any
commercial or other industry interest
We are unable to identify any potential conflict
of interest and have nothing to disclose
The Vehicle Safety Checklist
A simple and effective way for paramedics:
• to spot potentially dangerous issues
• to ensure we have fully functional
equipment and supplies for safe patient
care.
A Critical Patient Safety Event • Cardiac arrest patient
• Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) crew responds in a spare ambulance
• CPR initiated
• Crew discovers insufficient epinephrine available
• Patient transported to hospital
• Patient Died
Why did this happen?
• Inconsistent completion of a vehicle
equipment and safety checklist resulted in
unreliably stocked spare ambulances
What’s going on?
- Systemic issues
- Ownership
- Lack of training
- When to complete the check
- What to do to complete the check
- How to complete the check
Training development Identified the need for consistent training.
Reviewed current policy to understand gaps
Brainstormed ideas to resolve gaps.
Got field and educational staff input.
Identified that further training was required to augment the memo.
Worked with other stakeholders
Developed a video to fill that gap.
Key concepts
When to do the visual component
When to do the safety component
When to do the operational component
What to check at each stage.
Why to do each check.
Who should do each check.
Where each check should be done.
Training Uptake Data
20%
80%
VSO Course
Complete Total
Next Steps
- Review and update policy
- Working Group to review and update the
checklist
- Update training materials
- Create a VSO checklist for other fleet
vehicles
- Plan for Evaluation and Measurement
Questions?
Thank you Teresa White
Ken Wilcox
Katharine Chan
