
EEAST Education
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Official Twitter site for the Education & Training Team at East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Not for emergencies, dial 999 if you need an ambulance.
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http://www.eastamb.nhs.uk 24-11-2020 21:29:55
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Eye eye! We have taken delivery of some new training manikins as part of our plans to strengthen our #AdvancedPractice education pathways โฆcoming to an advanced paramedic near you very soon! EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Clinical Leads Ant Kitchener

Otoscopy is another skill our specialist paramedics need to master, and our new ear examination trainers will help with just that! #AdvancedPractice Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Clinical Leads

More advanced practice equipment coming to our AP pathways โฆthis time SimScopes to help practice hearing abnormal heart sounds, bowel sounds and bruit as part of diagnostics and patient assessment #AdvancedPractice #UrgentPrimaryCare Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care

For working in the GP setting, another skill area is assessment of lumps & bumps. We have invested in lymph node simulation / breast examination manikins to help prepare our APs with this element of Clinical #AdvancedPractice #UrgentPrimaryCare Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care


Thanks to colleagues PRESTIGE Fire | Safety | Security putting our staff through their paces during their fire safety and fire marshal updates today Peterborough (and across our Trust sites). ๐ฅ ๐ฅ ๐ฅ EEAST Safety & Experience

What are weekends for? Prepping our new transition programme for Specialist Paramedics who are up skilling as trainee ACPs in Urgent Care. Looking forward to meeting them all on Monday! #AdvancedPractice #Education EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Ant Kitchener



Great to be out with our flying faculty today EEAST Education EEAST Primary & Urgent Care - completing our our 4th regional assessment centre for our tACP programme.


Our one and only lead ACP Tim EEAST Primary & Urgent Care playing master of ceremonies and keeping on top of the admin today as we assess future tACPs at #Peterborough - thanks to EEAST Central Cambs Station for their hospitality today!


Specialist Paramedic Simon EEAST Primary & Urgent Care has been putting our future ACPs through their paces, dusting off his skills as a former training officer. Systems assessments and clinical reasoning well and truest tested! #ThanksSimon #WeAreEEAST


Fab to have Dr Simon Butler (ACP-Paramedicine/Neuroscientist) Dr Simon Butler supporting our new tACPs and assessing pharmacology knowledge EEAST Education - lots of great answers from candidates today!


Thanks to Nick Williams ๐ one of our Advanced Paramedics EEAST Primary & Urgent Care managing our history taking station today โฆfeeling at home in the back of an ambo!


Weโre recently recruited 25 brilliant Paramedics to trainee #ACP posts within our Urgent Care Advanced Practice teams across EEAST Ambulance Service - excited to start them on their educational journey with School of Health Sciences soon. Ant Kitchener EEAST Education Melissa Dowdeswell Paul Gates


Another colleague stepping up their clinical capabilities thorough funded development EEAST Education - it will be great to add more prescribers to our advancing practice teams, meaning more opportunity to deliver care closer to home EEAST Primary & Urgent Care โฆgood luck Tom Olley

Today we hosted a regional placement workshop on behalf on NHS England - great to hear from UEA A/Prof. Lawrence Hill about his recent publication and considerations for our future paramedic workforce. Ant Kitchener Dr Hein Scheffer


Thanks to Kirsty - Head of Education at the College of Paramedics for her insights in to the upcoming curriculum updates for paramedics, helping the conversations around workforce planning and work based learning opportunities on the East of England Dr Hein Scheffer Ant Kitchener


Amazing work from our team in the Driver Training Unit EEAST Ambulance Service who have been nominated for the Stars of EEAST team award - Having qualified hundreds of new staff as Blue Light Emergency Drivers in the last year. Well done Angie and team!! #WeAreEEAST
