Office of the Nova Scotia Provincial Medical Director

02/22/2024

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Quality Compliance Officer (Program Admin Officer 4)

10/06/2023

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Yesterday, 81 Emergency Health Services (EHS) employees with 20 or more years of service were recognized for their commitment to keeping Nova Scotians safe. The long-service awards, including one to 40-year employee Frank Johnston of Dartmouth, were presented at a ceremony in Halifax.

The recipients have a combined 1,995 years of service saving lives and providing emergency care in Nova Scotia. Employees must have at least 20 years of service and be in good standing with the College of Paramedics of Nova Scotia to qualify for the award.

There are about 1,200 paramedics in Nova Scotia. In 2023, paramedics received about 189,000 calls, an average of about 500 calls per day

The following is a list of award recipients and where they are based:

40 years:
-- Franklin Johnston, Dartmouth

35 years:
-- Graham McAllister, Enfield
-- Michael Morton, Liverpool
-- PremaBae Cooper, Dartmouth
-- Richard Campbell, Dartmouth
-- Shane Strong, Yarmouth

30 years:
-- Craig Deveau, Halifax
-- Dwayne Cameron, Dartmouth
-- Glen Durant, Glace Bay
-- Jack Galley, Berwick
-- Jeffrey Bezanson, Amherst
-- Jim McLaren, Digby
-- Robin Rowsell, Bridgewater
-- Shaun Head, New Waterford
-- Terry Frail, Dartmouth

25 years:
-- Adam MacNeil, Amherst
-- Carlis Coulter, Tatamagouche
-- Brian Duncan, Dartmouth
-- Charles Rodgers, Middleton
-- Colin Flynn, Enfield
-- Darren Trenholm, New Glasgow
-- David Matheson, Dartmouth
-- Evan Brander, Truro
-- Greg Hann, Sydney
-- Gregory MacKinnon, Dartmouth
-- J. Paul Bean, Bedford
-- James Belanger, Dartmouth
-- James H***e, North Sydney
-- Jarred Codling, Parrsborro
-- Jim Wells, Truro
-- John Mosher, Coldbrook
-- Marion Simpson, Northside
-- Mark Walker, Dartmouth
-- Marsha Grist, Lunenburg
-- Matthew Vaughan, New Glasgow
-- Michael Coffin, Amherst
-- Michael Newman, Amherst
-- Natasha Ryan, Port Hawkesbury
-- Nathan Smith, New Glasgow
-- Nicole Jessome, North Sydney
-- Nigel Gerrior, Dartmouth
-- Peter Maegerlein, Berwick
-- Peter Rose, Dartmouth
-- Rhonda Helpard, Port Hawkesbury
-- Richard Rafuse, Liverpool
-- Ryan Grist, Bridgewater
-- Sean Smeaton, Antigonish
-- Sean Murphy, Dartmouth
-- Stephen Crocker, Enfield

20 years:
-- Adrian Sweet, Bridgewater
-- Alexa Desaulniers, Dartmouth
-- Amanda Giles-Malloy, Truro
-- Andrew Williams, Shelburne
-- Chad Whynot, Liverpool
-- Chris Lineker, Lunenburg
-- Cynthia Comeau, Meteghan
-- Dana Baker, Yarmouth
-- Danny Deveau, Yarmouth
-- Debra Fortune, Highlands
-- DJ Walker, Northside
-- Kim MacQueen, Glace Bay
-- Mary-Beth Goodall, Cape Breton Highlands (Ingonish and Neils Harbour)
-- Melanie Richard, Amherst
-- Melissa Burrill, Dartmouth
-- Mike Gillis, Port Hawkesbury
-- Michael MacKenzie, Sydney
-- Mike Kiley, Truro
-- Pamela MacLennan, Dartmouth
-- Rayna Comeau, Meteghan
-- Rebecca Cameron, Dartmouth
-- Robert Malley, Cape Breton Highlands (Ingonish and Neils Harbour)
-- Ryan Smith, Woods Harbour
-- Sabine Haggerty, Kentville
-- Sandee Crooks, Dartmouth
-- Stephen Steele, Sydney
-- Troy Bennett, Baddeck
-- William McKee, New Waterford

10/06/2023

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09/21/2023

When EHS LifeFlight critical care flight paramedics and nurses are not on their way to responding to calls, they can usually be found in the simulation room, learning and keeping up to date with the latest information and clinical guidelines.

Through simulation, patient care is improved both in terms of quality as well as safety, as the environment is designed to provide the learner with a setting which allows for repetitive practice.
Steven Burke, a critical care flight nurse, says he tries to run a simulation every day that he’s at the LifeFlight hangar.

“It’s the best way that I’ve learned in my nursing career,” he said. “I’m very tactile, I need to be able to go through something in order to learn about it, and the sim is the best way to do that. It’s applying something that you’ve read, but actually doing it on a simulation mannequin and being able to have that feedback.”

Kevin Carey has spent 15 years as a critical care flight paramedic. Two years ago, he also became the Clinical Lead in Simulation, tasked with developing a more robust sim program.

He said it’s not uncommon to see multiple people in the sim lab on any given day.

“It’s a very active simulation room, in comparison to other simulation rooms or environments,” he said. “It’s always available when people are not on missions or actively out doing work, they can be in the simulation room doing that stuff.”

Learning at LifeFlight can also be taken outside the sim room and in any of the apparatus LifeFlight uses to transport critically ill or injured patients – helicopter, airplane, or ground ambulance – so they can “bring the realism of actual calls to the learning environment.”

“We go through a bunch of our clinical practice guidelines and try to incorporate that into different simulation scenarios and different practice environments.”

While Burke enjoys doing the simulation work, it’s the discussion with his peers that he says has allowed him to grow as a clinician.

“It’s you as a team talking about how it went and what you can do differently and what you would do differently next time,” he said.

“And that’s the most important part of any sim program, is the debrief and the discussion afterwards to figure out how would I do this differently next time and how would I do it more efficiently.”

In the last two years, Carey and his team have added several additional pieces of equipment, including a state-of-the-art ventilation simulator; sim capture equipment that allows them to record and review simulations in real-time with the group and LifeFlight physicians; and task trainers to maintain proficiency in complex procedures and skills.

It’s all part of ongoing training to help increase the number of critical care paramedics and nurses within the EHS system.

“It’s good for the citizens of Nova Scotia to have this type of an investment in the program,” Carey said, adding he’s excited to see where the program will go next.

“There’s a lot to the program, a lot of different parts and pieces to the job, but so far in the last two years I’ve had fun learning and getting some new education.”

10/03/2022

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07/06/2022

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05/10/2022

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04/15/2020

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04/02/2020

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03/26/2020

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03/22/2020

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03/06/2020

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