Kid’s First
JPCH management has asked that we no longer store anything
in the Education Room on Maternal Services.
We have a locker available for us to use. If you are bringing in your bag and scale
(mostly winter months) we ask that you place it in the locker room and put all
your valuables in the marked locker.
There is a prox card to get into that hallway with the KF clip board.
Please keep them together so that everyone has access. Please let Kerry know if this system doesn’t
work for us and we can explore other alternatives. Here is a map to help direct you if you are
not sure where the locker room is located.
Short Term
Vacation
When offering vacation day of (when staffing allows), please
be reminded that it is to be offered in
order of seniority – even if it is only a portion of the shift. The seniority list is posted both in the
payroll binder as well as the staff call in binder.
Indigenous
Cultural Responsiveness Policy
A
message from Andrew Will, Chief Executive Officer; Derek Miller, Chief
Operating Officer; and Jennifer Ahenakew, Vice President of First Nations and
Métis Health
In
recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21, we are pleased
to announce the release of the Saskatchewan Health Authority's (SHA) Indigenous
Cultural Responsiveness Policy, an important step in our ongoing journey toward
reconciliation and the delivery of equitable and culturally-safe care.
This
policy reaffirms our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to
Action. It supports our work to advance a culturally-responsive health-care
environment that acknowledges, respects, and integrates Indigenous knowledge,
healing practices, and worldviews into our everyday care and interactions.
The
Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Policy is grounded in shared responsibility.
As part of our CARES values, all SHA
team members have a role in fostering inclusive, respectful, and culturally
responsive health care.
I
encourage each of us to review and understand the new Indigenous Cultural
Responsiveness Policy.
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Copy and paste this link into Google Chrome: https://elearn.saskhealthauthority.ca/
Team Leaders
On the form that is hanging at the
Team Lead desk, please fill out ALL the
boxes when we send a client (mom or baby) into hospital or clinic for re
assessment. We filled out an ENTIRE
sheet and no one filled the column with Gestation of the baby. This makes us have to go back and search
through all those charts to find that information. Its important for us to log to keep stats on
who is being re admitted and helps give us a picture of what population is most
at risk. Thank you!
New Jaundice Guidelines
We are currently working to update our Newborn Jaundice
protocols to ensure that they follow the new CPS guidelines. However, this
process will take some time and we want to give you some instruction on how to
manage in the meantime.
We will now be asked to collect serum albumin in certain
instances. Albumin is a water-soluble
protein that plays a significant role in neonatal jaundice by binding with
bilirubin in the blood, thereby reducing free bilirubin levels that can cross
the blood-brain barrier and potentially injure the brain. Higher albumin levels have been shown to have
a neuroprotective effect on the newborn brain.
Please follow these steps when you encounter the following
situations:
- If a MRP gives you a verbal order to collect an albumin along with the TSB, please fill the microtainer with the green top to the level of the writing or just above that (see photo). This will give enough of a sample to test for both albumin and TSB.
- If a TcB of ≥ 250 µmol/L is detected during our standard TcB screening protocol, please draw a TSB, albumin, and DAT (if it hasn’t been drawn already).
Thank you all for your patience and please do not hesitate
to reach out with any feedback or questions that you may have as we navigate these
changes to our Newborn Jaundice program.
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