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Risk Assessment for all Healthcare workers
Gayle Lohr & Joanne Baines
Leaders, Infection Prevention & Control
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Every healthcare worker has a role to play in ensuring the health,
safety and welfare of themselves and others
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Who are we referring to as Healthcare workers? Everyone that works within the healthcare setting...
Nurses Volunteers
Housekeepers Maintenance workers
Porters Doctors
Therapists Nutritionalist
Social Workers Kitchen workers
Admin Staff Unit clerks
Activities staff Managers3
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What is a risk assessment?
• …a thorough look at your workplace to identify those things, situations, processes, etc that may cause harm, particularly to people
• …then evaluate how likely and severe the risk is, and decide what measures should be in place to effectively prevent or control the harm from happening
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Why is risk assessment important?
• Create awareness of hazards and risks
• Identify who may be at risk (employees, cleaners, visitors, contractors, the public, etc)
• Determine if existing control measures are adequate or if more should be done
• Prevent injuries or illnesses when done at the design or planning stage
• Prioritize hazards and control measures
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What is the goal of risk assessment?
• The aim of the risk assessment process is to remove a hazard or reduce the level of its risk by adding precautions or control measures, as necessary.
• By doing so, you have created a safer and healthier workplace
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Goals continued…
• Limiting unprotected exposure to pathogens
• Limiting transmission of infections associated with procedures
• Limiting transmission of infections associated with use of medical equipment, devices and supplies
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Tools for Risk Assessment…
• Five steps– Canadian Standards Association & Health Canada (1997)
• VIHA Infection Precaution Risk Assessment
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Five steps…
Canadian Standards Association & Health Canada (1997)
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Infection Precaution Risk Assessment
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RoutinePractice
• Hand Hygiene (4 moments) for all patients• Dealing with blood and/or body fluids• Non‐infectious diagnosed vomiting and/or diarrhea• Non‐draining wounds
Additional Precautions Primary Reason Secondary Reason
ContactPrecautions(Gown & gloves)
Known ARO positive ARO disease alert on patient chart
Diarrhea NYD Including known or recent history of Clostridium difficile
Draining infected wounds Weeping Cellulitis /Shingles
DropletPrecautions(Mask with face shield, gown & gloves)
Respiratory Infection with symptoms and/orNew or Worsening cough
Known MRSA in sputum
With one or more of the following: fever, headache, sore throat, general aches and pains, lethargy, chest discomfort
Vomiting NYD With Diarrhea NYD
Fever With one or more of the following:cough/ headache/rash
AirbornePrecautions(Negative pressure room, N95 mask, gown & gloves)
Rash resembling vesicles/pustules/ macules With any of the following: cough, head pain and malaise
Query Pulmonary TB or history of Pulmonary TB
With new or worsening cough
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Scenario 1….
• Patient being admitted through Triage into the ER department
• Resident being transferred to your LTC facility from the community
• Client within their own homeYou meet them for the first time and note that they are sneezing and they inform you that they have a new very active, productive cough
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Step 1: Identify the hazards…
• Potential for pathogenic organism?
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Step 1…
• When you are first approaching a potential patient– Routine practices
• Primary Reason• Known ARO positive• Diarrhea NYD • Draining infected wounds• Respiratory Infection with symptoms
and/or• New or Worsening cough • Vomiting NYD• Fever • Rash resembling vesicles/pustules/
macules• Query Pulmonary TB or history of
Pulmonary TB
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Step 2: Decide who might be harmed and how…
• Potential for droplet/airborne transmission
• Potential for indirect contact transmission from contaminated surfaces etc.
• Potential for other Patient/Resident/Client exposure
• Potential for multidisciplinary team exposure
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Step 2…
• Continue Routine Practices
• Assess risk
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Step 3: Evaluate the risks…
• Is there a need for additional precautions as well as routine practices?
• Do everything that is reasonably practical to protect patients from harm
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Step 3…
• Additional Precautions
• Contact• Precautions
• (Gown & gloves)
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• Droplet• Precautions
• (Mask with face shield, gown & gloves)
• Airborne• Precautions
• (Negative pressure room, N95 mask, gown & gloves)
– Signage
– Environmental cleaning
– Mask for patient/resident/client
– Limiting activities
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Step 4: Record your findings, proposed action and identify who will
lead on what action…
• Most responsible health care worker:– Record date/time of additional precautions taken
– Record reason for additional precautions
– Assess need for additional tools• Care plan
• Bristol Stool Chart, etc.
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Step 5:Review your assessment and update as necessary…
• Constant changes means good documentation is important
• Review your risk assessment when:– You are planning a change
– Routinely…every shift change
– When there has been a significant change
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Scenario 2…
• Visitor, Volunteer, Medical Imaging, porters, FMO etc.
• Within the unit setting– FMO working within a patient room
– Volunteers delivering tea, reading materials
– Visitors coming in for the first time
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Step 1: Identify the hazards…• Look for Hand Hygiene kiosk at the entrance to the unit
• Follow any precaution signs posted at the entrance to room and/or bedside curtain
• If precaution sign posted outside patient room…first see most responsible health care worker before entering
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Step 2 & 3…
• Adhere to precautions posted on the sign
• Is it truly necessary to visit/maintain this room at this time?
• Can the investigation be postponed?
• Provide a service to do everything reasonably practicable to protect patients’ from harm
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Step 4: Record your findings, proposed action and identify who
will lead on what action…
• Inform work colleagues that room is under precautions if maintenance will require more that one member of the team
• Porters will inform patients destination of change in precautions
• Visitors will inform other visitors etc.
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Step 5:Review your assessment and update as necessary…
• Adhere to change in posted precautions as and when necessary
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Myths…
• “The patient has been on antibiotics for 24hrs…I have taken her off droplet precautions…”
• Patient has been on antibiotics for 24 hours and there is an improvement of symptoms: resolving cough, decreased WCC, no fever
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Myths…
• “Patient has not had diarrhea for 48 hours and I have taken him off contact precautions..”
• Patient requires absence of diarrhea for 48 hours and has had a normalized/formed stool
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Where can I find the risk assessment?
• Presently– The link for the Infection Precaution risk Assessment Tool can be found on the VIHA Intranet. On the Infection Prevention & Control site under National Infection Control Week
• Watch for it’s inclusion within the IC manual
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Challenges…
• Maintaining quality whilst eliminating risk is a major challenge facing everyone in healthcare today.
• The challenge increases when we must implement additional precautions in order to deliver ‘best care’.
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As Health Care Workers and role models….we have the ability to lead practice and ensure that best care is delivered with the minimal amount
of risk.
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Questions?
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