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 [email protected]. We are happy to discuss the program, your interests, and how we may be able to align them with our currently available opportunities.