Medical Staff News
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Become a Disclosure Champion!
At this time, Island Health is urgently seeking to identify medical staff and leadership champions within Island Health to participate in an accredited and compensated* 15 hour online training course (Saegis Train-the-Trainer (TTT)) to become a Saegis Communicating Unexpected Outcomes (CUO) facilitator. This Saegis TTT course will be delivered weekly in 2-hour sessions, spread over seven consecutive weeks (September 14th to October 25th).
Long-term Care Between the Lines Newsletter Extra Edition - August, 2022
This newsletter ties in the content of their presentation and Accreditation Falls ROP. Some of the topics covered in this newsletter include: Performing a Falls Risk Assessment, Communicating a Fall Risk and more.
Study Investigates Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers
Researchers from the University of Victoria are inviting healthcare workers to take part in an online survey examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers' wellbeing.
BCCDC COVID-19 Long Term Care, Assisted Living & Other Residential Outbreak Report
A weekly update for Long-Term Care, Assisted Living & Other Residential Living Facilities.
Geographic distribution of COVID-19 by local health area of case residence
Epi-Week 31 Cases July 31 to August 6, 2022.
COVID-19 Situation Report
This BCCDC report provides weekly data and refers to pandemic phases defined by population-level changes.
Medical Staff can now contact the Island Health Service Desk for login issues with Cactus, AppCentral or Committee Manager
If the Service Desk is unable to resolve your issue, they will escalate it to the Island Health Cactus team for resolution during business hours.
The Self Care Cafe Is Back at RJH & Expansions are Coming
Hosted and created by staff, for staff - the Self Care Café at RJH offers sessions once a month for people to briefly step away from their busy day and relax, reconnect and do something creative.
COVID-19 Therapies - tixagevimab/cilgavimab (EVUSHELD™) Guidance Documents
Updates within the Health Care Provider Information document include, what are the current recommendations for tixagevimab/cilgavimab in BC? The Clinical Practice Guide includes revised guidance regarding the use of tixagevimab/cilgavimab for pre-exposure prophylaxis against COVID-19 considering the predominance of the BA 4/5 Variants of Concern in BC.