Accreditation 101
The organization responsible for conducting accreditation surveys.
What is Accreditation Canada?
These Ambulatory Care healthcare professionals can administer medication in the clinic.
Who are RNs, RPNs, NPs, PAs, and physicians?
These four patient-specific identifiers need to be checked at point of entry (check in) to the FHT clinic.
What is name, DOB, health card, address & telephone number?
The eye wash station is located in this hallway in the Riv FHT.
What is the North Hallway?
Use this to access TOH policies and procedures.
TOH Policy and Procedure System (PPS)
The day and time for the accreditation survey at the Riverside Campus.
What is Tuesday, January 23rd 13:00-15:00?
Use these rights to safely administer medications.
What is TOH's 9 Rights of Medication Administration.
This is required by patients for all acts and procedures administered by TOHAFHT health care practitioners.
Consent to Treatment.
This needs to be added to a patient's Epic chart when a patient has been verbally or physically aggressive/violent during a phone or in-person visit.
What is a Violence Flag?
Use this to access TOHAFHT specific policies and procedures.
TOHAFHT sharepoint site
The main reason and rationale of health care accreditation.
What is improve quality and safety?
Use this in Epic to document medication administration.
What is the Medication Administration Record (MAR)?
This electronic reporting system on each TOH computer workstation is used to report a patient safety incident.
What is the Safety Learning System (SLS)?
What is a Code White?
What all TOHAFT staff observe to protect themselves and prevent the spread of infection.
This organization requires Canadian teaching hospitals to be accredited with Accreditation Canada.
What is the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Lidocaine multi-dose vials must have this applied to it after it is opened.
What is the label with expiry date?
Nurses working at TOH require this annual certification to deal with patient medical emergencies.
What is BLS CPR certification?
These can be used to call a Code White.
Press the panic button or call 8-5555 and activate a Code White.
You must always have these on when handling sharps.
What are gloves?
This is how frequent Accreditation Canada conducts surveys for hospitals.
What is every four years?
These three medications administered in the FHT clinics require an independent double check to be performed and documented prior to administration.
What are Epinephrine, Leuprolide(Lupron) and Gosrelin(Zoladex)?
This TOH department can be contacted to manage a difficult patient encounter or patient complaint.
What is Patient Relations?
This TOH program ensures medical devices and medical equipment are safe and functional.
What is TOH Biomedical Engineering Department Preventative Maintenance Program.
This system is used to manage all Hazardous materials used in the workplace.
What is Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS)?