Clinicians working in regional, rural, and remote settings must be flexible, adaptable and able to deal with whatever comes in the door. They also need to know their system and how to make it work for the good of their patient(s). These needs are amplified in Pre-Hospital and Retrieval medicine due to the often uncontrolled environment, limited resources and the complexities of caring for a critically ill or injured patient in the transport environment. 

 

The key to safe and effective practice in the PHRM environment is high quality team-based critical decision-making. Taking hospital-based clinicians, many of whom have never worked in the NT, and training them to be able to deal with whatever comes their way in patients of all ages in a culturally appropriate way is a challenge. Success relies on an in depth understanding of human factors and constructive individual and team-based behaviours that form the “how we do things round here.” Adapting their exisiting knowledge and skills to the PHRM environment including the ability to adapt to changing circumstances (patient and environmental), and teaching them how to think, reason, learn and communicate as a team is critical for success. In this session, CareFlight’s NT supervisor of training will take the participants on the journey of how to design a training program to equip PHRM clinicians do deal with …. everything.