Best Practice Guidelines For Cleaning, Disinfection and

• Patient safety has always been of utmost importance to Canadian nurses Patient safety is not just a current issue; it is a commitment nurses make through their code of ethics to provide safe, competent, ethical care (Canadian Nurses Association [CNA], 2002) It is fundamental to nursing care and is a concern no matter where nurses work

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vaccines The reporting process is complicated and begins with the patient or family reporting back to the medical practitioner who administered the injection The practitioner may report to the CAEFISS (Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System) 10 Most adverse reactions are never reported

Best Practice Guidelines For Cleaning, Disinfection and

Cochrane, Chair of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, to the Ministry and health authorities in September 2010 Acknowledgement Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care & the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee Best Practices for Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization in All Health Care Settings February 2010

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PATIENT SAFETY

Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) • Establishment of national patient safety body • Patient safety data dictionary 31 Hong Kong Hospital Authority • Integrated risk management standard incorporating patient safety programme • Intranet, web-based advanced incident reporting system (AIRS) • ‘Just culture’ and open disclosure

C O M M U N I Q U É f o r t h e H e a l t h I n d u s t r y

Canadian Disclosure Guidelines The obligation to disclose has recently been addressed on a national scale by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) in the release of the Canadian Disclosure Guidelines ("the Disclosure Guidelines") The Disclosure Guidelines, released in March of 2008, are the result of

Progress Report on Hand Hygiene - Ministry of Health

Communiqué 2012-04, issued in August 2012, continues to define the vision, scope and standards for such as the Canadian Patient Safety Institute's (CPSI) Stop

Strategies for managing a busy emergency department

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and asked for suggestions on how to maximize ED patient flow and ED productivity without increasing stress levels, reducing care standards or compromising patient safety Responses were compiled and categorized by the authors, and some suggested strategies were excluded by author consensus

Look Back and Patient Notification Programs

to a patient or others Hospitals are probably most familiar with look back programs in the context of direction received from the Canadian Red Cross Society to identify patients who might have received blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis In these cases, the look back program was defined as a “program

ONA/LTC PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

address nursing practice and workload concerns relative to resident care/outcomes and safety The PRW report form is a documentation tool that can facilitate and promote a problem-solving approach SECTION 1: GENERAL INFORMATION Name(s) of Employee(s) Reporting (Please Print) Susie Q

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Fact Sheet - The Nursing Perspective On Patient Safety

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