Connected Care for Community Hospitals

To meet the demand of unprecedented challenges to access and flow for surging volumes of paediatric patients requiring acute care admissions, Connected Care is extending its services to Community Hospitals in Ontario. Services include:

• Connected Care Webinars: live and recorded competency-based webinars will be led by expert SickKids Interprofessional providers (e.g. RN, RT, MD, Pharmacy).

• Connected Care on the Go: ‘rapid delivery’ of teaching mannequins and education supplies for hands-on practice of skills during co-facilitated virtual education sessions.

• Clinical Leadership Placement: observership for community hospital interprofessional education and practice leads to gain and exchange knowledge in paediatric care through observation, practice simulations and other educational activities.

• Resource Navigation: library of self-directed education and practice resources, access to webinar recordings and consultation with Connected Care.

Community Hospital Resource Hub

Connected Care offers a library of self-directed education and practice resources and access to recorded webinars. 

SICKKIDS POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND GUIDELINES

• Transfer Guidelines & Resources

  • Clinical Assessment For Transfer

  • Nursing Shift Handover Guidelines

  • Paediatric Inter-Facility Transfer Checklist: Acute to to Rehab

  • Paediatric Inter-Facility Transfer Checklist: Acute to Acute

• Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines

• Safe Sleep For Infants & Toddlers

• Nurse Extenders in Paediatric Acute Care

For support with resource navigation contact connectedcare.inquiries@sickkids.ca

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