Province announces ‘direct to triage’ project for EHS

A new initiative launching Wednesday is expected to get paramedics and ambulances out of hospital emergency departments and back on the road faster to respond more quickly to emergency calls.

In a媒体发布Tuesday morning, the Department of Health and Wellness said the Emergency Health Services (EHS) “direct to triage” initiative will see paramedics taking low-risk patients to emergency department waiting rooms to be assessed by health care staff rather than waiting with patients until a doctor takes over care.

A low-risk patient is described as someone with normal vital signs who can sit, stand, or move independently without risk of falling.

Paramedics will still wait in emergency departments with high-risk patients, including those with chest pain, potentially life-threatening injuries, suspected stroke, and children under the age of 16.

“护理人员是我们医疗保健系统的重要组成部分。我们需要确保他们的时间花在应对紧急情况下。”健康与健康部长米歇尔·汤普森（Michelle Thompson）在新闻稿中说。

“This policy balances the safety of patients who can wait to be seen by emergency department staff and getting our paramedics back on the streets sooner.”

2月，代表护理人员的工会成员告诉公共帐户常务委员会该省的护理人员被烧毁了，迫切需要更好的工作条件和薪水，并且该系统“接近失败点”。

卫生与健康部表示，直接对分类政策是旨在消除EHS系统，改善救护车卸货时间并改善护理人员的工作条件的“几项倡议”之一。

“Watching calls join the queue while you wait with a low-risk patient in hospital is hard. When our paramedics are able to get back into their communities sooner, that benefits everyone,” Kevin MacMullin, Business Manager, International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 727, said in Tuesday’s media release.

“We are hopeful that this new policy is a positive step toward getting our paramedics back to doing what they do best – responding to emergencies.”

Other initiatives expected to help and highlighted in the news release include:

• 扩大医疗运输服务和患者转会单位的扩展，这减少了对运输中不需要医疗监督的低风险患者的救护车的依赖
• 在2022-2023中，将EHS预算增加了近1200万美元
• continuing to implement recommendations fromthe Fitch report该省的救护车服务
• the purchase and installation of power loaders and power stretchers in all ambulances
• the creation of a temporary license, in partnership with the College of Paramedics of Nova Scotia, so graduating paramedics can start working sooner while waiting to write licensing exams
• new vehicles and staff to double patient transfer capacity and enable paramedics to focus on emergencies
• 建立员工咨询委员会
• working collaboratively with the employer and paramedic schools on recruitment and retention

EHS业务执行董事Charbel Daniel说：“我们的希望是（直接直接分类）倡议结果，导致医护人员从医院释放出更有效地从医院释放，以应对范围内的医疗紧急情况，同时确保对优质的患者护理没有干扰。”在版本中。

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