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This risk assessment audit tool includes a template for long-term care, home care and community health support, and non-clinical areas.
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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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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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Learn to assess an environment for hazards before providing care.
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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 how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.
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Learn about what bullying and harassment is and when to report it.
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Learn to recognize feeling unsettled, use effective self-settling strategies in situations self-setting may be helpful.
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Learn to build stronger relationships with the people they care for and Keep Activities of Daily Living information up-to-date.
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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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Use the Point of Care Assessment template below to identify the risks in each of the four boxes that may have lead to the resident becoming responsive.
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This is a tool for care workers to ensure that they are providing safe, person-directed care through a quick at-the-bedside assessment.
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Download and print your own Point of Care Assessment card. Share with your colleagues. We’ve made it easy with the Avery business card template.
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A point of care risk assessment for transfers is a quick mini-appraisal you, the health care worker, do to make sure a person’s abilities still match what’s in their care plan. It doesn’t replace the typical risk assessment completed as part of a person’s care plan. Rather, it’s a tool you use in addition to the care plan assessments.
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