Dec 17, 2020 | Central Office, Education, Featured Posts
BCPSLS Central Office has a special gift for you, just in time for the holidays: three shiny, new courses focused on patient safety! We have revised our Patient Safety, Actions, and Reports courses on LearningHub. And we’re thrilled to announce that the courses will...
Nov 18, 2020 | Central Office, Education, Featured Posts
We’ve revised our online Patient Safety course and would like to know what you think of it! Long considered a kind of “Patient Safety 101”, our current course has been completed by over 9,000 health care staff and students since it was launched in 2014. Before we make...
Nov 10, 2020 | Data Analysis, Featured Posts, Patient Safety, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
IT. HIT. HIM. Huh? Is this an emphatic description of someone having a sudden realization? Think again. These acronyms are becoming pretty common in our daily work in health care. Throw in an ACK, a CAT, and a SLIP, and you could have the beginning of a good story!...
Sep 17, 2020 | Central Office, Featured Posts, Radiation Safety
Don’t you love it when something you’ve been planning for years finally comes to fruition? BCPSLS has been looking forward to electronically submitting data to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for inclusion in Canada’s National System for Incident...
Apr 9, 2020 | Central Office, Featured Posts, Patient Safety
We are in awe of all the incredible efforts made by BC’s health care community over the past several weeks in response to COVID-19. Like many of you, we cheer, clap, and drum together with our families every night at 7 p.m. to express the gratitude that words alone...
Feb 4, 2020 | Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR), Equipment Safety, Featured Posts
Did you know that it’s been almost eight weeks since Vanessa’s Law regulations came into effect? Since December 16, 2019, hospitals have been required to report serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and medical device incidents (MDIs) to Health Canada. In BC, this is...
