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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
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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

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The Province has introduced a new masking policy for all healthcare workers who provide direct care effective immediately. Staff Requirements Visitor Guidance With an increase in viral respiratory illnesses (VRI) across the province, the Ministry of Health has introduced new masking measures to help control the spread of these illnesses. It's important to remember that […]
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Staff Requirements Visitor Guidance With an increase in viral respiratory illnesses (VRI) across the province, the Ministry of Health has introduced new masking measures to help control the spread of these illnesses. It's important to remember that masking is just one part of a comprehensive infection prevention and control (IPAC) strategy. To enhance your efforts, […]
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Safety Huddle

Bed Bugs

This huddle will help your staff minimize their exposure to and prevent the spread of bed bugs.

Instructions

Read the background out loud and use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about the potential of bed bugs in clients' homes.

After this huddle Staff should be able to:

  • Minimize their exposure to bed bugs.
  • Prevent the spread of bed bugs

Notes to the huddle leader

  • You can reduce your exposure to bed bugs by covering your shoes with disposable booties, storing your personal items in a re-sealable plastic bag, trying to provide care in areas of the home that do not have carpet, upholstered furniture, or a bed, and avoiding sitting on upholstered furniture or beds.
  • The presence of bed bugs should be included on the care plan, so all care workers are informed.
  • If you have been exposed to bed bugs, wash and dry your clothes at high heat (greater than 45°C).
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Additional Resources

This video demonstrates some of the challenges of wearing PPE while supporting care recipients. Learn how a person living with dementia may interpret PPE and try our practical tips to help you connect and communicate.
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In this video you will learn how dementia slows the thinking process and how you can adjust your approach to help improve communication. Our practical tips will help you use a person-centred approach with care recipients.
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In this video you will learn how dementia can affect vision and what you can do to ensure you are seen. Our practical tips will help you interact with people living with dementia using a person-centred approach.
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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 know the consequences of getting injured at work and understand how injuries affect everyone in the workplace.
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Feel in control of your own safety and be motivated to contribute to a safe and healthy workplace.
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Learn to identify potentially violent situations, apply de-escalation techniques and report violence or near misses.
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Self-Settling
Learn to recognize feeling unsettled, use effective self-settling strategies in situations self-setting may be helpful.
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Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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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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