I've been a bit quiet.

After sleeping the first day off I had a very important Union Sub-Branch meeting to attend the next night talking and voting about the direction of our next round of wage negotiations.

The night after that was a station meeting at work with presentations from Clinical Training staff outlining the recent additions to the P1 Qualified Officers drug kit and the developments in changing us from a protocol driven per-hospital service to guidelines and allowing for the clinical knowledge to be used.
Extended Care Paramedics to inform us of what they can provide as for non acute pts, kind of like the CARe pathways I have open to me but just more of them, such as sutures, re-insertion of catheters, reduction of certain dislocations,,, interesting stuff.

And then just an update from Management in particular was our KPI (key performance indicators) that have been dropping for the last month or so but one of our own Team Leaders has been conduction her own data survey and has figures that indicate near perfect compliance! The problem may be that the data is collected for jobs in our catchment area but not exclusive to our crews so cars from out of area may very well be what is letting us down. Further investigation to be done.

I have Fifty of my Question Guideline booklets to complete to restock the ACAP Paramedic Bookshop and that as I have posted before is a lot more time consuming that many realise.

Scored an O/t tomorrow so hopefully I'll have great work to post about.

See you at the Big One and you be careful out there.

Taz