Long Term Care Sample Rotation
Long Term Care 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
☐ Outbreak management; 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
☐ Recycling, Reduction, Reuse programs ☐ Explore revenue waste programs
☐ Hazardous waste (ie. biohazard/sharps, battery disposal
☐ Safe Disposal of Sharps, ☐ Handling sharps training and policy
☐ 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 security controlled
☐ 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-Resident/Hotel Area Cleaning and Disinfecting
☐ Common and Service Area Cleaning and Disinfecting (food service areas, kitchen/cafeteria, staff areas, nursing stations, public washrooms…)
☐ Housekeeping Resident/Healthcare 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
☐ Cleaning Schedules and Cleaning Frequencies
☐ Deep cleaning schedule and routines
☐ Floor care and carpet cleaning programs
☐ Project cleaning protocols
Laundry services, Linen Management and Distribution
☐ Linen unit carts and linen quotas calculations per home areas
☐ Types of linens and proper usage
☐ Linen Distribution procedures, carts and storage
☐ Transportation and Handling of soiled linens protocols, soiled utility rooms
☐ Linen outsourcing process, contract company agreement
☐ On the Premises laundry (OPL) processes
☐ Laundry equipment operation, safety and preventative maintenance
☐ Proper Folding techniques
☐ Sorting at the source process
☐ Linen Management and Inventory
☐ Handling Personal Clothing and Labelling New Personal Items Procedures
☐ Washing Codes and Cycles; Washer weight capacities
☐ Drying Procedures, proper times and temperatures, dryer weight capacities
☐ Chemicals, detergents, water softeners, fabric softeners and sours
☐ Distribution of Exchange linen carts Removal of Linens from
☐ Laundering other department linens; kitchen, physio, housekeeping, salon,
☐ Infection Control Procedures Laundering Slings, wheelchair pads, cushions
Maintenance and General Facility Services
☐ Preventative Maintenance Program and Maintenance Software
☐ Project work, minor repairs, painting protocols
☐ Transfer Equipment inspection checklist (lifts, wheelchairs)
☐ Plumbing/Water Temperature limitations, temperature audits
☐ Locate Electrical panels/requirements
☐ HVAC system and filtration replacement process
☐ Generator tests and routine inspections
☐ Work Order Process
☐ Pest Control monitoring
☐ Tagging out equipment process
☐ EVS Preventative Maintenance Programs
☐ Contractual services-landscape/snow removal
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
HESM 206 Winter Long Term Care Sample Field Placement Rotation