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WEBSep 4, 2024 · A New Centre To Help Canada’s Nurses Enhance Their Skills. Coming out of the pandemic, Canada’s health care system found many new challenges and many new nurses in hospital wards. This created a need for learning opportunities that The Michener Centre for Post-Graduate Nursing Education (Michener CNE) has stepped up to provide.
The alcohol swab before the needle: A point of debate
WEBMar 5, 2020 · Alcohol swabbing before an injection is a long-standing, widely used infection control practice. It’s thought that prepping the skin using alcohol swabs removes bacteria that could be pushed into the puncture and might cause an infection. To clean the skin before a vaccination or other injection, suggested standard practice according to the ...
Improving patient care by connecting medical records
WEBMay 30, 2016 · Part of eHealth Ontario’s larger Connecting Ontario initiative, cGTA integrates electronic health records through a centralized database. “By seamlessly and securely linking through our hospital information system, our clinicians have ready access to a provincial patient data repository,” explains MSH CIO Lewis Hooper.
First same-day discharge knee replacement surgery at MGH …
WEBPublished on. November 14, 2018. Mohamed Yusuf is proud to stand on his own two feet again after a successful same-day discharge total knee replacement surgery. Photo credit: Ellen Samek. When Mohamed Yusuf walked into Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) to receive his total knee replacement surgery, he never imagined he would walk out of the ...
Revolutionary new breast imaging technology - Hospital News
WEBNov 10, 2017 · St. Joseph’s Hospital, part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, has become the first Canadian hospital to install the latest in mammography technology that allows patients to personally control and adjust the rate of compression during the exam. The Senographe Pristina designed by GE Healthcare is a groundbreaking new breast imaging ...
Defusing an angry or upset patient - Hospital News
WEBAug 14, 2018 · By Lindsay Yoo and Certina Ho Healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare professionals, encounter many different scenarios during a typical shift; this often involves the challenge of navigating unexpected situations, for instance, defusing an angry or frustrated patient. Handling a difficult situation that involves an angry or upset patient is ...
Saving energy in hospitals – It’s not what you think
WEBFebruary 21, 2015. Grand River Hospital in Kitchener Waterloo has achieved $470,000 in savings across their two sites since their program began in 2012. Improving energy efficiency conjures up thoughts of new technology, capital expenditures and lengthy returns on investment. Greening Health Care (GHC) members are demonstrating that it doesn ...
The future of healthcare and the role of medtech - Hospital News
WEBApr 16, 2015 · A recent PWC report states that ‘the mere concept of innovation needs redefining in a health ecosystem that demands and rewards new models for delivering better care at lower costs across a broad patient population.Medtech companies must get ready to compete in this new environment’. The health care system could benefit from greater collaboration with industry and learn from private sector ...
Disinfecting NICU equipment for tiny patients - Hospital News
WEBDec 11, 2015 · Disinfecting NICU equipment for tiny patients. Infection Control. Published on. December 11, 2015. Markham Stouffville Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. By Peri Elmokadem. Patients visit hospitals to get better, and health care facilities do everything they can to deliver on that expectation. They adopt medical best practices and ...
Canada’s first smart hospital leverages digital devices to enhance ...
WEBAug 27, 2021 · By Zeeshan Ahmed and Vaso Charitsis Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, Canada’s first smart hospital and the first net new hospital in Ontario in more than 30 years, has taken emergency preparedness to the next level. In February 2021, Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital implemented a digital platform for clinical communication and workflow, to become the first Canadian hospital […]