Browsing by Author "Ritchie, Stephen"

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Community-Based Emergency Care: An Open Report for Nishnawbe Aski Nation
(2014) Ritchie, Stephen; Orkin, Aaron; VanderBurgh, Dave; Fortune, Melanie
This report summarizes the learnings of the Community-Based Emergency Care Roundtable, a two-day multi-jurisdictional meeting held in October 2013 in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss and address pre-nursing station emergency care needs in remote and isolated First Nation communities in Ontario. Representatives of First Nations’ governance and community organizations, Ontario Provincial and Canadian Federal governments, nursing and paramedical services, and non-governmental organizations joined together to develop shared understandings and a vision for the future of emergency care in remote and isolated settings. This report offers a Vision, Key Recommendations and Guiding Principles with which to improve emergency care for all injured and ill people in remote and isolated First Nation communities in Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
Community-based first aid: a program report on the intersection of community-based participatory research and first aid education in a remote Canadian Aboriginal community
(2014-04-15) Ritchie, Stephen; VanderBurgh, Dave; Jamieson, R; Beardy, Jackson; Orkin, Aaron
Community-based first aid training is the collaborative development of locally relevant emergency response training. The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative was developed, delivered, and evaluated through two intensive five-day first aid courses. Sachigo Lake First Nation is a remote aboriginal community of 450 people in northern Ontario, Canada with no local paramedical services. These courses were developed in collaboration with the community, with a goal of building community capacity to respond to medical emergencies. Issue. Most first aid training programs rely on standardized curriculum developed for urban & rural contexts with established emergency response systems. Delivering effective community-based first aid training in remote aboriginal communities required specific adaptations to conventional first aid educational content and pedagogy. Lessons Learned. Three key lessons emerged during this program that used collaborative principles to adapt conventional first aid concepts and curriculum. (1) 15 Standard algorithmic approaches may not be relevant nor appropriate. Relationships between course participants and the people they help are relevant and important. Curriculum must be attentive to existing informal and formal emergency response systems. These lessons may be instructive for the development of other programs in similar settings.
Leadership status congruency and cohesion in outdoor adventure groups
(2008-08) Ritchie, Stephen; Eys, Mark; Oddson, Bruce; Little, Jim; Slade, Heather
The general purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between status congruency and group cohesion in an outdoor expedition setting. Specifically, three aspects of status congruency were assessed in relation to group cohesion in four adventure canoe groups. These groups were participating in two week expeditions in the northern areas of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The participants were 32 upper year undergraduate students enrolled in a central Canadian university (Mage = 8 22.41 + 2.43 years). Results indicated that (a) individuals who ranked themselves higher in the group’s status hierarchy compared to where their peers ranked them had decreased attractions to social aspects of the group; (b) perceptions of group cohesion were greater when individuals occupying formal leadership positions were higher in the group’s status ranking (i.e., greater congruency between formal and informal status hierarchies); and (c) individuals who were members of groups that had some level of consensus regarding status rankings perceived their groups to be more cohesive than those who were members of a group that had no consensus.