Sep 3, 2019 | Central Office, Featured Posts, Patient Safety
What’s the plan? We tend to ask this question a lot. What’s the plan for today’s meeting? What’s the plan for lunch? It’s often pretty easy to answer. Sometimes it’s not so simple, though. What’s the plan for next five years? What will our organization focus on, what...
Aug 20, 2019 | Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR), Equipment Safety, Featured Posts, Patient Safety, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
By guest blogger Brendan Gribbons, Regional Engineering Team Manager, Lower Mainland Biomedical Engineering (LMBME) Over-infusions Lower Mainland Biomedical Engineering (LMBME) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) recently investigated a concerning incidence of...
Jul 25, 2019 | Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR), Central Office, Equipment Safety, Featured Posts
Have you heard of Vanessa’s Law? Officially known as the Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act, Vanessa’s Law is named after Vanessa Young, a fifteen-year-old girl who died of a cardiac arrhythmia after being prescribed Prepulsid® (cisapride) for a stomach...
May 2, 2019 | Featured Posts, Providence Health Care (PHC), Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
Ah, change. We #lovehate it, don’t we? It can be refreshing, energizing, and full of promise. It can also be stressful, challenging, and uncertain. And no one knows this better than the many dedicated staff who have been involved with implementing Clinical &...
Mar 7, 2019 | BCPSLS Coordinators, Featured Posts, Providence Health Care (PHC), Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
“Learning depends critically on the less visible social processes of inquiry, investigation and improvement that unfold around incidents.” Would you agree? Carl Macrae presented the above viewpoint in his British Medical Journal article titled The problem with...
Jan 10, 2019 | Central Office, Featured Posts
Have you ever noticed something at work and thought, “Well, that doesn’t look safe”? Maybe you found the narcotic cupboard unlocked, or saw that the crash cart wasn’t prepped correctly, or spotted dirty equipment in the same storage room as the clean equipment....
