Articles and updates from the Clinical & Systems Transformation project.
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.
Articles and updates from the Clinical & Systems Transformation project.
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.”
From a hush that’s conducive to recovery to a sense of urgency when patients need it most, Eric Starr says the Intensive Care Unit at St. Paul’s Hospital is never the same from day to day.
Eric, a registered nurse, has worked at St. Paul’s for over nine years. He chose St. Paul’s for its staff, patients and culture of caring.
Since April 2014, he has been working on the CST project.
Paper is a fact of life.
Even once everyone is using the new integrated clinical information system, currently being developed as part of the Clinical & Systems Transformation project, we will be "paper light", not paperless. Some clinical documentation (such as Code Blue documents) will still be on paper; and paper documents will continue to arrive from outside VCH, PHSA and PHC. That’s where document imaging, or scanning, comes in.