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The Home Care and Community Health Support Pocketbook was created to bring awareness to several health and safety issues faced in home and community care.
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In long-term care it is increasingly apparent that who is on shift is just as important as how many staff are on shift. Quality care is difficult to achieve when we do not routinely engage with one another in a positive, or civil, manner.
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Leading from the Inside Out provides a safe space for leaders in continuing care to share their challenges and learn self-care practices.
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The Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum is recognized as best-practice in violence prevention training for health care workers.
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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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WorkSafeBC is releasing a discussion paper with proposed amendments to the Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation. Recommended amendments include: These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC – The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, […]
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Vaccines play an important role in infection prevention and control. They can help keep you and others safe in the workplace, at home, and in public.

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Vaccines play an important role in infection prevention and control. They can help keep you and others safe in the workplace, at home, and in public. This course will help you understand how vaccines work, address some common questions, and give you the skills, tools, and resources to have well-informed, respectful conversations about vaccination in the workplace.

Topics include:

  • Different types of immunity
  • Community protection (also known as herd immunity)
  • Managing common side effects
  • Common vaccine ingredients and how they are approved
  • How to talk about vaccines

Upon completion of the course learners will be able to:

  • Explain how vaccines protect the body from a disease.
  • Outline how vaccines are a highly effective method to reduce transmission of a disease as part of infection control practices.
  • Identify common side effects of a vaccine.
  • Outline common vaccine ingredients and the functions they serve.
  • Demonstrate a non-judgemental, non-argumentative approach with people who are vaccine-hesitant to build mutually respectful relationships.

This course was developed with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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The average time to complete this course is approximately one hour.

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