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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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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

De-escalation strategies

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.

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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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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Working closely with clients and their families and friends, often under difficult circumstances and sometimes in isolated locations, can put you at risk of violence. Violence and aggressive behaviour are not part of your job.
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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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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 how to properly use lifts to avoid musculoskeletal injury.
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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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Read the scenario out loud and use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about intoxication in client homes.
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Pets in the Home
Learn to deal with pets according to their organization's policies and react appropriately when a pet poses a risk.
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Learn to report and recognize heat exhaustion and take preventative measures to help avoid the ill effects of heat stress.
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Learn to describe how dementia can change a person’s brain and explain why the strategies shown in the video are effective.
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Injuries arising from acts of violence or aggression are one of the leading injury–types among continuing care workers. These types of situations can often be avoided or managed by using current and leading-practice violence prevention skills and techniques.
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Arrowsmith Lodge - Parksville,
March 18th @ 8:30am to 4:30pm
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Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum Train the Trainer Workshop
AgeCare Holyrood - Maple Ridge
February 11th to 14th @ 8:30am-4:30pm
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