Articles and updates from the Clinical & Systems Transformation project.
Cindy Sellers has given nearly 40 years to VCH as a nurse and manager of the Sea to Sky sites.
Learn why she's looking forward to the changes that will be brought about by the Clinical and Systems Transformation (CST) project.
Get a look at the future of medication administration in this video, which goes through the clinical process of closed loop medication management.
A large-scale shift is coming to Nursing and Pharmacy, with the introduction of bedside barcode scanning to verify medications before they are administered to patients.
Did you notice that doctor, standing over there, talking to himself? He hasn’t cracked under the pressure. He’s using a microphone to dictate his notes directly into the clinical information system.
Phil Sweeney has a broken fibula to thank for his career as a physiotherapist.
As a kid in New Zealand, Phil broke his leg while playing rugby. It took three months for his leg to heal, which included six weeks of physiotherapy. He recovered just in time for a rugby trip to Australia.
To a young Phil, physiotherapy seemed like a pretty neat thing to do.
Life as a recovery room nurse is like Vancouver traffic, says Johanne Collazo from Lions Gate Hospital. If there’s an accident here or a delay there, all movement stops and there’s gridlock.
Maya Angelou once said that people will forget what you said or did, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.
For Yeonjoo Kwon and countless others around the world, this quote reflects everyday life as a nurse.
Clinical & Systems Transformation (CST) is a joint undertaking between VCH, PHSA and PHC to complete a significant transformation of clinical practices and systems. The project spans several areas of the continuum of care, including: acute care, inpatient and outpatient units, ambulatory care and residential care across VCH, PHSA and PHC.
Victoria Morris moved to Vancouver on a whim and hasn’t looked back. Originally from Ontario, the registered nurse soon found a job with Providence Health Care.
Five years later, she accepted the role of clinical nurse educator for the Medicine and Ambulatory clinics at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital.
Dr. Eric Grafstein says data drives everything he does in health care.
“We need the information at our fingertips,” says Dr. Grafstein, CST Chief Medical Information Officer, VCH/PHC. “We have a tremendous reliance on information from both inpatient units and the community in order to know what’s going on with the patient.”
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