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Table of Contents
Patient Driven Hand Hygiene Auditing.........................................................................................................5
CQIIPC visit: Care and Hygiene and Cleanliness Component......................................................................5
Importance of Hand Hygiene for Patients and Residents When Admitted to Health Care Facilities...........5
Hand Hygiene Certification...........................................................................................................................5
Reducing Environmental Pollution and Improving Hand Hygiene Thanks to A Dedicated Cart.................5
Patients as Observers in Hand Hygiene.........................................................................................................6
I Boost Immunity...........................................................................................................................................6
Mobile App Supports Clinicians in Optimizing Antimicrobial Prescribing..................................................6
Enteric Outbreak Investigation Criteria.........................................................................................................6
Hands App Electronic Hand Hygiene/PPE Auditing Tool............................................................................6
Dépistage des usagers asymptomatiques porteurs de C-diff..........................................................................7
Cleanliness and Flourescent Marker Audit Practice......................................................................................7
GetCheckedOnline STI/HIV Testing.............................................................................................................7
RADAR : Un acronyme bilingue pour optimiser la mise en place des mesures de prévention des
infections........................................................................................................................................................7
A Portal into the Future of eMedication Reconciliation (eMedRec).............................................................7
Environmental Service Educator Role...........................................................................................................8
Hospital-Acquired Clostridium Difficile Management Program..................................................................8
Putting Tuberculosis Control on the Map......................................................................................................8
Volunteers and Patients as Hand Hygiene “Partners in Care”.......................................................................8
New Tool for Improving Hand Hygiene Practices........................................................................................8
Best Practice in Infection Prevention and Control in a Surgical Patient Population.....................................9
Brigade d’intervention rapide lors d’éclosion................................................................................................9
Use of Telemedicine to Support Care of Newborns in Rural Manitoba........................................................9
The Virtual Neurocritical Care Unit..............................................................................................................9
Aide à la décision lors de l’admission d’un usager porteur de BMR en milieu d’hébergement...................9
Disinfection Needs Identification Tool (DNIT)..........................................................................................10
Alert Codes for Acquisition of Nosocomial Pathogens...............................................................................10
SKYPE: an innovative way to break the isolation of seniors living in institutions.....................................10
Prevention of Nosocomial Infection in the Neonate; Targeting Central Venous Catheter Bloodstream
Infections (CVC-BSI)..................................................................................................................................10
Quality Counts Postcard..............................................................................................................................10
Hand Hygiene eLearning Module for PSWs Working in Home Care Settings...........................................11
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Virtual Emergency Room: A Unique Outreach Collaboration (Using Technology to Reach Kids in Crisis)
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Efficient Organizational Development of Hygiene and Sanitation Services...............................................11
Family Visitation Using Telemedicine Technology....................................................................................11
Model of Infection Prevention and Control internal network......................................................................11
Additional Precautions (AP) for Basic Infection Prevention Practices.......................................................12
Grey Zones...................................................................................................................................................12
Infection Prevention and Control Posters in Agency Vehicles....................................................................12
Reaching for Higher Level than Visual Clean to Prevent Infections...........................................................12
Passport to Preparedness: A clear, portable reference and action guide to prepare for H1N1....................12
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) MRSA Outpatient Clinic..............................................................13
Primary Health Bus Reaches Under-served Populations.............................................................................13
Urban Model for an Immunization Clinic in an Urban Family Practice.....................................................13
Public Health Surveillance Unit and Health Watch Reports.......................................................................13
Outbreak and Post-outbreak Standards of Practice......................................................................................13
Outbreak Management.................................................................................................................................14
Outbreak Management Kit...........................................................................................................................14
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Hand hygiene is important in minimizing the risk of transmission of disease. At Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre, we observe 4 moments for hand hygiene as outlined in the Ontario Just Clean Your Hands initiative in
inpatient settings, achieving an overall hospital...
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I Boost Immunity
2017 | Community Health Services | British Columbia | Leading Practice
Vaccines are one of the greatest advances in medicine, but are a victim of their own success. As vaccine preventable
diseases have disappeared, some Canadian parents no longer believe vaccination is needed and unnecessarily fear
vaccines. Canadian vaccination rates...
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outbreaks. The practice introduced at the Institut consists of two components: 1) earliest possible detection and
control of any potential outbreak...
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Hand Hygiene eLearning Module for PSWs Working in Home Care Settings
2011 | Home Care | Training and Education | Ontario | Archived (2+ year)
As part of a working group called Community Learning in Infection Control, and as funded through the Toronto
Central LHIN, Community Care East York has worked in partnership to produce an eLearning module designed to
promote best practices in hand hygiene for Personal...
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and have complex mental health issues that could result in serious psychiatric, emotional and/or behavioral
disturbances. These children/youth need a further...
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Grey Zones
2010 | Rehabilitation | Infection Prevention and Control | Quebec | Archived (2+ year)
The Catherine Booth Hospital (CBH) has addressed an issue that plagues all health care organizations—
accountability for cleaning surfaces and equipment that fall into a 'grey zone'. Cleanliness of physical space,
surfaces, and equipment in hospitals is...
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2010 | Home Care | Infection Prevention and Control | Ontario | Archived (2+ year)
The ESS has adapted its hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette communication tools for use in their agency
vehicles, a non-traditional program setting. This low-cost initiative has been critical to enhancing the agency’s
infection prevention and control...
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those wanting a vaccination. This required the program to design a new method to deliver the H1N1 and seasonal
vaccinations in 2009. The Family Practice...
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Outbreak Management
2009 | Long Term Care | Infection Prevention and Control | Ontario | Archived (2+ year)
The Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home developed reference binders for enteric and respiratory outbreaks. Contents
include outbreak case definitions, contact numbers, to-do checklists, ready-to-go posters, scripts for the switchboard,
and fact sheets. These documented...
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