Hospital Sample Rotation
Hospital Sample Field Placement Rotation
Week 1-3
☐ Orientation
☐ Organization chart, ☐ Facility and Department Policies and Procedures ☐ Introduction to department staff and inter-professional team ☐ Department Job Descriptions and Routines and Schedules
☐ Review Department Team leads/Supervisors/Managers orientation checklist Organization chart
☐ Review Department Policies and Procedures to cross reference with PIDAC, IPAC department
Infection Control and Safety Procedures
☐ WHMIS, Global Harmonized System (GHS)
☐ Infection Control and Prevention committee
☐ Occupational Health and Safety Committee
☐ Proper lifting Procedures ☐ Ergonomics
☐ Fire Safety and drills
☐ Evacuation procedures
☐ Emergency codes
☐ Additional Precautions protocols, ☐Contact Precautions, ☐Droplet Precautions and ☐Airborne Precautions, ☐PPE don and doff, ☐ Personal Protective Gear re-stocking, signage protocols
Waste Management and Recycling
☐ Waste streams for Biomedical and General Waste
☐ Hazardous waste (ie. biohazard/sharps, cyto toxic, radioactive, battery Disposal
☐ Safe Disposal of Sharps, Handling sharps training and policy
☐ Recycling, Reduction, Reuse programs ☐ Explore revenue waste programs
☐ Collection, Storage and Transport of Waste processes and protocols ☐ Review contractual services
Procurement Process
☐ Purchasing and purchase orders, Par Stocks and standing orders
☐ Receiving procedures, invoices, packing slips, specifications
☐ General stores and supply requisition process
☐ Storage areas and control
☐ Inventory Management
☐ Inventory tallies and month end budgets
☐ Purchase journals and Departmental budgeting
Week 4-7
Housekeeping Areas
☐ Cleaning equipment operations and daily preventative maintenance protocols
☐ Chemicals, cleaning agents, disinfectants ☐ WHMIS and MSDS sheets
☐ Daily Cleaning job routines and time activity:
☐ Non-Patient/Hotel Area Cleaning and Disinfecting
☐ Common and Service Area Cleaning and Disinfecting (food service areas, kitchen/cafeteria, staff areas, nursing stations, public washrooms…)
☐ Housekeeping Patient/Hospital Area Cleaning and Disinfecting
☐ Discharge/isolation/terminal cleaning protocols, turnover times and follow up; interprofessional roles and responsibilities
☐ Patient Bed terminal cleaning and bed making protocols
☐ Bed bugs protocols
☐ Specialty disinfecting equipment; UV light disinfection process
☐ Flood response and emergency clean up
☐ CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear), etc.
☐ Specialty cleaning of rooms/items cleaning and disinfecting routines, roles and responsibilities with interprofessional team
☐ operating and labour & delivery rooms/tubs, ☐ labs: chemo therapy;
☐ pharmacy; reprocessing/sterilization areas, ☐ imaging
☐ Cleaning Schedules and Cleaning Frequencies
☐ Floor care programs
☐ Project and deep cleaning protocols
Laundry services, Linen Management and Distribution
☐ Linen unit carts and review linen quotas calculations per care units
☐ Types of linens and proper usage
☐ Linen Distribution procedures, carts and storage
☐ Transportation and Handling of soiled linens protocols
☐ Uniforms, scrubs, lab coat distribution
☐ Linen outsourcing process, contract company agreement
Transportation and Porter Services
☐ Patient Transfer process
☐ Porter’s roles and responsibilities, schedules and time activities
☐ Cleaning and disinfecting of transfer equipment and storage
☐ Communication Methods and logistics
Maintenance and General Facility Services
☐ Project work
☐ Preventative Maintenance Program and Maintenance Software
☐ Equipment Inspection Frequencies
☐ Work Orders process
☐ Pest Control monitoring
☐ Tagging out equipment process
☐ EVS Preventative Maintenance Programs
Human Resources
☐ Department Job Descriptions and Time activity Routines, Work Schedules
☐ Hiring process, interviewing, reference checking
☐ Performance Appraisals
☐ Disciplinary process
☐ Collective agreement
☐ Payroll processing
☐ Master Schedules, rotation
☐ Staff replacement protocols, sick calls, vacation/leave relief using seniority
Supervision, Continuous Quality Indicators, Education and Communication
☐ Auditing and Monitoring systems/Software
☐ Types of audits, conducting audits, benchmarks, follow up, results staff training
☐ Develop and conduct EVS staff In-servicing, education sessions
☐ Department Memos, communication process, emails, inter-professional correspondence process
☐ Participate in management functions and provide relief supervision
☐ Describe the role of each supervisor, manager, team lead