Database of Health Workforce Innovations

665

Title

Critical Care Physician Assistant Position

Brief Description of Challenge

Work force needed to be expanded for COVID19 and thus PA were hired and onboarded

Brief Description of Innovation

The organization hired PA to fill positions in ER, GIM and ICU during Feb 2020. This was done through email and social media posting. Approximately 10 PA were onboarded.

Innovation – Increase Numbers

Other

Innovation – Increase Flexibility

Innovation – Increase Availability

Worker

Other Health Care Workers

Task/Skill

Training / Retraining

Brief Description of Setting

Critical care in a large urban city in Ontario in a large multi-centre hospital organization

Setting - Organization

Emergency Medical Services
Hospitals

Setting - Geography

Urban/Suburban

Facilitators

Support from the organization

Barriers

Education on the role of PA

Impact / Evaluation

Ongoing, unknown how metrics will be used to measure impact

Link

Contact

Organization

Phone Number

Country

Canada

Expert Assessment – Impact

Assessed Risk - Workers

Assessed Risk - System

Assessed Risk – Patients

Expert Assessment – Confidence

Language

English

Type

Grey Literature

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