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Shadowing Opportunities Available

Infection Control Program
  • Review quality metrics in order to identify areas for improvement
  • Oversee 2 infection control practitioners
  • Support the accreditation process across Richmond, preparing the programs and teams for accreditation (more on accreditation below)

National Surgery Quality Improvement Program - NSQIP
  • American College of Surgeons program that VCH participates in
  • Part of the larger Quality & Patient Safety group
  • Focus is on surgical programs - reducing surgical site infections, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections
  • Two components: analyzing and collecting data, and leading/supporting QI initiatives

Accreditation
  • Work with clinical and leadership teams across VCH to prepare for accreditation - best practice standards set out by Accreditation Canada
  • Journey consists of choosing the standards that best depict the work that they do, self-assessing against those standards, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and developing action plans to address the top priorities for improvement

Human Factors
  • Apply engineering and psychology principles on a variety of large and small projects relating to health care. Human Factors is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body and its cognitive abilities.
  • Procure medical devices using human factors methodologies

Releasing Time to Care
  • Work with wards to decrease interruptions and workflow inefficiencies
  • Increase time for frontline staff to interact with patients
  • Examples of initiatives: Decreasing patient falls, bedside charting, well organized wards, hand hygiene, bedside rounds, and patient transfers


For more information, please get in touch with us at programs@ihiubc.com. We are happy to discuss the program, your interests, and how we may be able to align them with our currently available opportunities.

 
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  • Home
  • About
    • IHI Open School
    • Mission
    • Leadership >
      • Faculty Advisors
      • Executive Council
  • Workshops
    • Workshops >
      • Upcoming Workshops
      • Past Workshops
  • Scholarships
    • Information/Application
    • Experiences >
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
  • Curriculum Development
  • Mentorship
  • IHI Basic Certificate Cohort
  • Showcasing IHI UBC
  • Resources
    • Affiliated Organizations
    • Chapter Resources
    • Other
  • Newsletters
  • Hiring
  • Contact Us