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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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Programs & Services

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Leading from the Inside Out
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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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Guidelines & Regulations

Guidelines and Regulations

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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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Safety Huddle

Self-Settling

Learn to recognize feeling unsettled, use effective self-settling strategies in situations self-setting may be helpful.

Introduction

Self-settling is the act of calming yourself down from a state of extreme stress or an intensely emotional experience. After reading the definition of self-settling, ask staff to share with the group when they felt overwhelmed or frustrated and could calm themselves down.

After this huddle Staff should be able to:

  • Recognize when they feel unsettled.
  • Use effective self-settling strategies.
  • Identify situations when self-settling strategies may be helpful.

Notes to the huddle leader

  • Some common cues that you may need to self-settle are higher breathing rate, clenched hands or jaws, muscular tension, difficulty concentrating or making decisions.
  • Some common self-settling techniques include closing your eyes, deep breathing, stretching, visualizing a peaceful scene, having a snack and repeating a mantra.

Guiding questions

  • What does “self-settling” mean? Why is it important?
  • What cues does your body give you when you might need to take a moment to self-settle?
  • What are your self-settling techniques?
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Self-Settling

Additional Resources

Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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More Safety Huddles

Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.
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Learn to identify potentially violent situations, apply de-escalation techniques and report violence or near misses.
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SafeCare BC’s Safety Huddle Handbook includes a collection of topics that you can use to organize your own safety huddles. While many huddles can be done as a discussion, others require additional resources. Below you will find a list of handouts, documents, pictures and videos that can be used for the corresponding huddle.
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Learn to know the consequences of getting injured at work and understand how injuries affect everyone in the workplace.
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Learn how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.
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Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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Learn when it is safe to transfer a person in care and know what to do if it is not safe to transfer.
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