SPOTLIGHT: ANNUAL COMPETENCY

Overview

Annually, the NPDS and units collaborate to identify needs for staff education or competency. These topics are prioritized based on data that is high risk, new, or changing from safety reporting, surveys, initiatives, policies/procedures, and more. The NPDS checks in with their assigned units throughout the year to help develop methods for competency verification and evaluate the effect of educational strategies

Process

Below is an example of the education and competencies developed for the Emergency Transport Team based on the FY23 needs assessment:

Assessment

•Staff and leadership: collaborate & discuss staff education & competency needs

•Prioritize Needs: High Risk aspects of job

Education

•Pre-learning assignment: Review literature & complete intubation e-learning

•Case Scenarios: Difficult airways during transport

Competency

•Pre learning: Checklists, videos, equipment for practice

•Demonstrate: intubation of neonate, child, & adult

•Simulation: Manage decompensating patient requiring intubation during transport with team

Evaluation

•Successful return demonstration of intubation, use of all ETT equipment, team management of difficult airway during transport

•For ongoing education & competency needs, implemented quarterly education including trauma, cardiac, neonatal, and