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Medical Laboratory
ProfessionalsProud Partners in Health Care
Laboratory tours) offered in 11 different languages) were conducted by our
medical technologists in honour of National Medical Laboratory Week.
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SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS - JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL PULSE - APRIL 2001
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What's Happening
@
the JGH?
The Auxiliary
is proud to announce our upcoming
Cancer Survivors' Day
Blood Donor Clinic
Tuesday, June 12,2001 at 6:45 p.m.
Jewish General Hospital - Pavilion A Auditorium
Monday, May 7th
Pavilion A AUDITORIUM
10 A.M. - 4 P.M.
CASH PRIZES
Celebration 2001
Surviving Life's Challenges
A panel discussion focusing on issues for
cancer survivors and caregivers
Moderator: Josee Legault
Family, friends and children are welcome.
Refreshments will follow.
Internationa!
Nurses Week
May 7 -12, 2001
In honour of International Nurses Week, we
are pleased to offer the following activities:
May 7 -
Nurse Managers will present a token of their esteem to
their individual units.
May 8 -
Guess the Number of "Tastetations" and win a prize.
May 9 -
ClI General Assembly with a luncheon provided by
Nursing Administration. Room Al39.
May 10 - We will be hosting a cake-cutting ceremony for our
Nurses. 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. in the Atrium.
To register, please call Hope and Cope,
local 8255.
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AN EDUCATIONAL·
SUPPORT GROUP
is being offered to families
of long term care patients.
The purpose of the group is to help caregivers adapt to their new role, be more
informed/ comfortable about the placement process and address new issues that
Wear Denim and Fight Breast Cancer
may arise as a result of placement. This
group is focused on families (spouses
National Denim Day
and/or children) of inpatients who need to
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
be relocated to extend care facilities due to
Wear your jeans to work and make a donation of $5
at the Legare St. entrance, Cote des Neiges entrance
or the Atrium between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
a variety of reasons. The group will provide
education and support, meeting for 4
weeks in the evening from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Each meeting will have a speaker to discuss
a particular topic, followed by a discussion.
May is Speech and Hearing Month
The Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology will offer
information kiosks / displays for the JGH staff and the public, on
Tuesday May 22, 2001 between 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the
Pavilion E - Legare St. entrance.
For more information and registration
please call Cristina Iorio, Social Worker at
local 2857. The group will repeat threefour times per year or more if necessary.
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Accolades,
Appointments
and Departures
.:. We are proud to announce that
Hope & Cope has retained the
honour of "laureate" in the category "Organisme pour la region
de Montreal" for the "prix
Hommage
benevolat-Quebec
2001." They will be presented
with the award at a ceremony in
May in "la salle du Conseillegislatif de l' Assemblee nationale".
.:. Dr. Gerald Batist has been
appointed Chairman of the
Department of Oncology, McGill
University.
.:. Rabbi Myer Schecter received his
Ph.D. from the Department of
Religion, Concordia University.
His thesis was on medical ethics.
•:. Lynn
Hewitt,
Chief
of
Distribution in the Department
of Dietetics, has left the JGH to
assume the position of Chief of
Dietetics at the Douglas Hospital.
She has been a valuable employee
of the JGH since May 1993 and
we wish her much success in her
new endeavour.
The Pharmacy Department of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish
General Hospital has modified its manual oral drug distribution for an
automated system, the AutoMed FDS™ . The AutoMed FDS Systems™
represent a new era in oral solid medication packaging and dispensing.
Designed exclusively to meet the needs of modern pharmacy operations, the AutoMed FDS Systems™ offer the high-speed, high-capacity
today's pharmacy operations require, with a clear path toward meeting
tomorrow's expanding pharmacy operation needs.
The AutoMed FDS System™ utilizes 330 dispensing cassettes and delivers up to 60 single or multi-dose packages per minute. Each cassette is
individually calibrated and available in multiple sizes to complement
dispensing volume. The AutoMed FDS Systems™ are fully computer
driven and include a powerful high performance 32-bit client/server PC
and can operate under Windows ™ NT. This system is interfaced with
the existing pharmacy inf6rmation system and allows seamless integration of our current data. A full array of comprehensive reports, including inventory and dispensing activity, can be easily generated.
The Automed FDSTM dispensing system will allow pharmacy operations
to grow, maximize labor efficiencies, improve accuracy and reduce
acquisition and operation costs. This new technology relieves the pharmacists of a great part of their technical tasks, hence increasing the
quality of pharmaceutical care offered to patients.
Automation of the Pharmacy Department has shown to have a positive
impact on our department, both technically and professionally.
Automation of oral doses has allowed us to concentrate on increasing
our existing IV Additive Program. Pharmacy batches unit dose intravenous medications and distributes them to the nursing stations. Thus:
• we prepare these drugs under a laminar flow hood
• we increase sterility of the products
• we do the calculations, reconstitutions and dilutions of the
products
• we decrease medication errors, decrease nursing time for drug
preparation, decrease drug wastage
• we provide stability charts, assure proper storage
• we prepare and control all the epidural anaesthesia products that
contain narcotics, as per narcotic control act
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• we label all products with ALL the necessary information
including the proper method of administration
All our products have safety seals and undergo microbiology testing.
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Opinion Survey 2000-2001
Below are the results of two client satisfaction surveys. Thirty health care units and 5
clinics responded. All results have been analyzed and a follow-up is being conducted
with all nursing teams. For further information, please contact Claude Bensmihen.
Local 1798.
Central Sterilization Opinion Survey
Are you confident that the products
we offer you are sterile?
4.3
Are linen packs or instrument trays
properly assembled?
4.2
Are the CSD personnel courteous?
4.0
Overall satisfaction with CSD services. 3.9
Are the CSD personnel available?
3.7
Are you satisfied with the delay to
respond to urgent requests?
3.6
Is the schedule of deliveries respected? 3.5
Are you satisfied with the distribution
of IV solutions?
3.5
Is the schedule of deliveries respected? 3.0
Average Result
3.7
Laundry Opinion Survey Results
Are the laundry personnel courteous?
3.9
Are you satisfied with the cleanliness
of the linen?
3.6
Is the schedule of deliveries respected?
3.6
Overall satisfaction with Laundry
services?
3.5
Does Laundry deliver the linen quotas
as requested?
3.3
Are you satisfied with the delay to
respond to urgent requests?
3.2
Are you satisfied with the quality of
the linen?
3.2
Are you informed about changes
or delays?
2.7
Average Result
3.4
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