» Code (Blue) Preparedness
» Best Practice Survey of CAPHC Centres Literacy Programs
» Bottle Warming Options for Parents - Best Practice Survey of CAPHC Centres
» The value of creating an “Operations Manager” role in a Pediatric ER
» Integrated Interdisciplinary Models of Care
» Pediatric Bereavement Support Services Survey
» Management of children at risk of Osteopenia
» Health education provided to school staff
» Paediatric Emergency Rooms
» Mental Health Planning for Children and Youth
» Nasogastric/Nasojejunal Tube Feeding at Home
» Allergy Policies
» Step Down Units on Paediatric Wards
» Continuous Infusion Pump Survey
» Healthcare Provider Patient Ratios
» Guidelines of RN, RPN Utilization
» The role of research in the training and practice of psychologists in pediatric health centres
» Determining Best Practice: Gastrostomy Tube Management Survey
» Children’s Environmental Health: A National Survey for Health Care Professionals
» Patient Identification Systems
» Clinical Pathways: A National Survey

June 2011
Code (Blue) Preparedness

Leslie Galloway and our colleagues at Children’s Hospital, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, is requesting feedback from the CAPHC members on Code Blue Preparedness. They have provided a link to short a electronic survey.  Please click this link to complete the survey:   https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CodePreparedness2011

UPDATE: » Results now posted

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Leslie at:

Leslie Galloway, BN,MSc
Quality Officer, Child Health Quality Team
AE302 - 671 William Avenue
Winnipeg,Manitoba
R3E OZ2
Ph: (204) 787-2587
Fax: (204) 787-4661
lgalloway@hsc.mb.ca

Thank you for your assistance.

April 2011
Best Practice Survey of CAPHC Centres Literacy Programs

A reassessment of Literacy Projects at The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC to find out if and how other Paediatric centres across Canada have tackled the issue of literacy in a acute-care setting.

» Survey
» Survey Results

July 2010
Bottle Warming Options for Parents - Best Practice Survey of CAPHC Centres

» Survey Results

April 27, 2009
The value of creating an “Operations Manager” role in a Pediatric ER

Our colleagues at the Montreal Children’s Hospital are interested in creating a new position/role in their Emergency Department to provide support to the ER’s clinical leadership and staff. They are considering the creation of a full-time position for an "operations manager" type role. The intent is to transfer the day-to-day management of all the operational responsibilities away from the clinical staff (i.e. Assistant Head Nurse, charge nurses, etc). This could include such things as managing equipment needs, following-up on supply issues, dealing with staffing, coordinating security needs, addressing pharmacy and lab issues, etc., as they arise on a daily basis.

They have created a short survey seeking feedback on current practice across Canada. Completed surveys can be directed to:

Demetra Kafantaris, MBA
Senior Advisor Corporate Affairs, General Administration
The Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre
demetra.kafantaris@muhc.mcgill.ca
Tel: (514) 412-4400, ext. 23148
Fax: (514) 412-4332

Please assist us by completing the survey at the link below, and thank you for helping us with this request.

» Survey
» Survey Results

January 29, 2009
Integrated Interdisciplinary Models of Care

Presently at The Montreal Children's Hospital, an effort is underway between Child Neurology, Developmental Paediatrics and Child Psychiatry to formulate a Brain-Development-Behaviour Integrated Clinical Network (ICN) that would streamline and standardize patient care and access, optimize use of existing resources and improve efforts in teaching and research.  One part of our efforts is directed at the formulation of a central intake process to the services involved in this ICN.  Another is to identify specific patient populations who need different models of care.

We would greatly appreciate your support by taking a few minutes to answer this survey or forwarding this to the most appropriate person at your organization for completion.

» Survey
» Survey Results

Please return the completed survey to Demetra Kafantaris, Senior Advisor Corporate Affairs, General Administration via email: demetra.kafantaris@muhc.mcgill.ca.  If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Demetra by email or telephone: (514) 412-4400, ext. 23148

A summary of the survey results will be shared. Thank you for your assistance.

January 22, 2009
Pediatric Bereavement Support Services Survey

The Children’s and Women’s Health Program of the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre, Eastern Health in St. John’s, NL is conducting a Needs Assessment related to Bereavement Support Services. We are requesting our CAPHC colleagues to complete this survey in order for us to gain a better understanding of the Pediatric Bereavement Support Services provided in other pediatric settings across Canada.

We would greatly appreciate your support by taking a few minutes to answer this survey or forwarding this to the most appropriate person at your organization for completion.

» Survey

Please return the completed survey by February 13th, 2009 to Joy Stuckless, Project Lead via email: joy.stuckless@easternhealth.ca. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Joy by email or telephone: 709-777-4722. 

A summary of the survey results will be shared. Thank you for your assistance.

September 9, 2008
Management of children at risk of Osteopenia

We have received a request for input from the CAPHC members regarding children at risk of Osteopenia.  Leslie Galloway, and her colleagues at the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital have provided a short, 10 question survey focuses on the management of children at risk of Osteopenia.

Please take the time to complete this survey by clicking on the following link, or cutting and pasting this link into your web browser:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ue0ArhixqJPm4SnGgyAcVg_3d_3d

The results of this survey will be compiled and distributed when they become available.

September 9, 2008
Health education provided to school staff

We have received a survey, with preliminary results from Barb Stonehouse, and her colleagues at the IWK Health Centre, in Halifax, NS.  This survey was in relation to collaboration with the Halifax Regional School Board and the Department of Education to improve the consistency of health education provided to school staff that have children with a variety of health needs in their system. In particular the IWK was interested in developing a better approach for its more frequent requests for procedure/condition education e.g. tube feedings, seizures etc. 

» View Survey

Barb has kindly provided us with a summary of the results of this survey.

» View Summary of Results

 Thank you to all CAPHC members who have participated in this survey.

August 18, 2008
Paediatric Emergency Rooms

Karen Davies and her team at the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, are requesting information regarding paediatric emergency rooms.

They are requesting that you respond to Karen, with answers to the following two questions:

• What is the annual volume of visits for your Paediatric Emergency Department?
• What is your leadership structure (including charge nurse) for your Paediatric Emergency Department?

We hope you will help out your fellow CAPHC member by providing some answers to these two very brief questions. Responses can be sent directly to Karen Davies at: KAREN.DAVIES@LHSC.ON.CA .

» Survey Results

If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Karen directly:

Karen Davies
Director, Children's Hospital
London Health Sciences Centre
519-685-8500
Ext 55404
KAREN.DAVIES@LHSC.ON.CA

Thank you and we look forward to your responses.

August 4, 2008
Mental Health Planning for Children and Youth

» Letter
» Survey
» Survey Results

Chris Carew, and his team at SickKids, are looking for information regarding Mental Health Planning for Children and Youth.

The Hospital for Sick Children has undertaken a planning process for the enhancement of the mental health system for children and youth. Their goal is to develop a strategic focus for mental health at Sick Kids. They would like to get a sense of what other paediatric centers across Canada are doing in this regard. The results will be shared through the CAPHC website when they become available.

Please find a link to a brief letter outlining the rationale for their request, as well as a short survey. Please take a few minutes to fill out and submit the attached survey, or please forward this survey to the most appropriate person in your institution. Survey should be returned directly to Chris at:

Chris Carew
chris.carew@sickkids.ca
Director, Child Health Systems
Child Health Services
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8
Phone (416) 813-7654 x 2671
Fax (416) 813-8026

Thank you, in advance, for taking the time to help one of our CAPHC colleagues on this important issue.

July 24, 2008
Nasogastric/Nasojejunal Tube Feeding at Home

» Complete Survey
» Survey Results

 We would like to share with you another opportunity to share and seek best practices in infant, child and youth health service delivery.  As a commitment to all our members, CAPHC is pleased to serve as your knowledge broker, by sharing these requests to seek “best and most promising practices” in many areas of child health.

Leslie Galloway and her colleagues at the Child Health Quality Team and the Women’s Health Program at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority are studying the management of Nasogastric/nasojejunal tube feeding at home.   As part of their process to improve the quality of care for children in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, the Child Health Quality Team would be very interested in learning about “best practice” from other CAPHC centres.

On behalf of our Winnipeg colleagues, please click on the link below to open a very brief questionnaire that outlines a few specific questions. I would greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this and return it directly to Leslie via e-mail (lgalloway@hsc.mb.ca). You may wish to share this survey with your colleagues.

Your collective responses will be posted on the CAPHC web site (www.caphc.org) so that we may share your experiences and recommendations with all our paediatric colleagues! CAPHC is pleased to facilitate this request and we look forward to hearing from other members about new collaborative opportunities based on our common goals and objectives!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

July 24, 2008
Allergy Policies

» Survey
» Survey Results

We would like to share with you another opportunity to share and seek best practices in infant, child and youth health service delivery.  As a commitment to all our members, CAPHC is pleased to serve as your knowledge broker, by sharing these requests to seek “best and most promising practices” in many areas of child health.

Demetra Kafantaris and her colleagues at the Montreal Children's Hospital and the McGill University Health Centre are requesting information regarding current practice at the various health centres across Canada regarding allergy policies.  

On behalf of our Montreal colleagues, please click on the link below to open a very brief questionnaire that outlines a few specific questions. I would greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this and return it directly to Demetra via e-mail (demetra.kafantaris@muhc.mcgill.ca). You may wish to share this survey with the person at your organization who may be most appropriate to respond.

Your collective responses will be posted on the CAPHC web site (www.caphc.org) so that we may share your experiences and recommendations with all our paediatric colleagues! CAPHC is pleased to facilitate this request and we look forward to hearing from other members about new collaborative opportunities based on our common goals and objectives!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Step Down Units on Paediatric Wards

» Survey
» Preliminary Results

The CAPHC national office was contacted by our colleague, Murray Kesselman, from the Winnipeg Children’s Hospital, regarding Step Down Units on Paediatric Wards.

We have provided you with some background information and a brief survey that Murray has asked CAPHC to share with all our members.

As with all Childrens Hospitals, Winnipeg has seen an increase in acuity and a resultant increase in the need to monitor cardiorespiratory functions in a non-PICU setting. Winnipeg Childrens Hospital is in the process of redesigning a ward monitored area which is called a Step-up Unit. (I.e., for children requiring a step up in the level of monitoring and observation provided on a regular pediatric ward.) We would like to get a sense of what other paediatric centres are doing in this regard and we would be happy to share the results.

Your participation and feedback are extremely important and we would greatly appreciate if you could complete this survey and return it to Murray Kesselman at the following email address – mkesselman@hsc.mb.ca.  Preliminary results are posted here as well.

As CAPHC liaisons, you may want to refer this survey to the individual or office that would be most familiar with this area of practice within your respective organizations. FYI, the survey can be completed on the attached form and emailed directly to Murray.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

As always, many thanks to all for your collaboration!

January 2008
Continuous Infusion Pump Survey

» Survey
» Survey Results

Opportunities to share and seek best practices in many different areas of infant, child and youth health service delivery continue to be a frequent request from many of our members. As a commitment to all our members, CAPHC is pleased to serve as your knowledge broker, by sharing these requests to seek “best and most promising practices” in many areas of child health.

Leslie Galloway and her colleagues at the Child Health Quality Team and the Women’s Health Program at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority are studying the use of continuous infusion pumps.   As part of their process to improve the quality of care for children in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, the Child Health Quality Team would be very interested in learning about “best practice” from other CAPHC centres. On behalf of our Winnipeg colleagues, I have attached a very brief questionnaire that outlines a few specific questions. I would greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this and return it directly to Leslie via e-mail (lgalloway@hsc.mb.ca). You may wish to share this survey with your Nursing Leader colleagues. Your collective responses will be posted on the CAPHC web site (www.caphc.org) so that we may share your experiences and recommendations with all our paediatric colleagues!

CAPHC is pleased to facilitate this request and we look forward to hearing from other members about new collaborative opportunities based on our common goals and objectives!

Kind regards to all,
Doug Maynard RRT, MBA
Associate Director

November 2007
Healthcare Provider Patient Ratios

CAPHC has recently received a request for information from our colleagues at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario regarding healthcare provider patient ratios. The survey results will be considered in tandem with the information recently requested by Ruth Lee from Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster Children’s Hospital, and a national teleconference will be organized for those interested to discuss the results.

We would greatly appreciate your forwarding the attached document to your respective nursing representative(s) for completion by November 22nd, 2007.

» Complete Survey

October 2007
Guidelines of RN, RPN Utilization
CAPHC has recently received a request for information from our colleagues at McMaster Children’s Hospital regarding guidelines of RN, RPN utilization. In view of the new College of Nurses of Ontario guidelines of RN, RPN utilization, and the difficulties of recruiting RNs in many clinical areas, the Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) Corporation is reviewing staffing models with the possibility of increasing the number of RPNs in their nursing staffing mix. Although McMaster Children's Hospital has not been confronted with a nursing shortage, they would like to be proactive, and keep abreast of RPN utilization in other pediatric health centres.
As CAPHC’s liaison, I would greatly appreciate if you could share the following questions with your respective nursing/HR representatives.

» Complete Survey

June 2007
Role of research in the training and practice of psychologists in pediatric health centres

This survey has now been completed - » Survey Results

There have been few studies that explore the role of research in the training and practice of psychologists working in paediatric health centres. Psychologists at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Stollery Children’s Hospital have collaborated to create an online survey that explores these issues. This is part of a research project funded by The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation to Dr. J. Olds and Dr. A. Witol. We would like to invite your agency to participate in this study. As some questions are specific to individuals who participate in the hiring of psychology staff, and others are directed at those who are not in this role, we ask that the survey be distributed to psychologists in different roles within your agency. 

The study takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. Participation in this study is voluntary, and you can chose to refrain from answering any question. The information obtained will be kept confidential. The Research Ethics Board at CHEO has approved this study.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Andrea Miller (amiller@cheo.on.ca), Dr. Stephanie Greenham (greenham@cheo.on.ca), Dr. Janet Olds (olds@cheo.on.ca), Dr. Janice Cohen (cohen@cheo.on.ca) or Dr. Adrienne Witol (awitol@cha.ab.ca).

In order to enter the survey, please click on the link below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=227413505508

Sincerely,

September 6, 2006
Determining Best Practice: Gastrostomy Tube Management Survey

This survey has now been completed - » Survey Results

Opportunities to share and seek best practices in many different areas of infant, child and youth health service delivery continue to be a frequent request from many of our members.

As a commitment to all our members, CAPHC is pleased to serve as your knowledge broker, by sharing these requests to seek “best and most promising practices” in many areas of child health.

Leslie Galloway and her colleagues at the Child Health Quality Team and the Women’s Health Program at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority are working to improve the consistency of care of children from the pre-operative period until several months post insertion of the Gastrostomy Tube. As part of their work, they are beginning to work on the development of an algorithm and clinical pathway. As part of this process, they would be very interested in learning about “best practice” from other CAPHC centres.

On behalf of our Winnipeg colleagues, I have attached a very brief questionnaire that outlines a few specific questions. I would greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this and return it directly to Leslie via e-mail. You may wish to share this survey with your Nursing Leader colleagues.

» Complete Survey

Your collective responses will be posted on the CAPHC web site (www.caphc.org) so that we may share your experiences and recommendations with all our paediatric colleagues!

CAPHC is pleased to facilitate this request and we look forward to hearing from other members about new collaborative opportunities based on our common goals and objectives!

June 10, 2006
Children’s Environmental Health: A National Survey for Health Care Professionals

The CAPHC national office has recently partnered with the Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH), Asociación Argentina de Médicos por el Medio Ambiente (AAMMA), the Paediatric Societies of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE), to build capacity among multi-disciplinary health care professionals in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay to recognize and understand the influence of environmental contaminants on the health of children.

The following survey has been developed to gain a better understanding of the experience of Canadian health care professionals in relation to children’s environmental health. The data collected through this survey will assist in the development of 3 Canadian capacity-building workshops on children’s environmental health taking place over the next year. As we have done with previous collaborative surveys, the data will be aggregated, reported back on the CAPHC website and shared with all participants. The first workshop will be held in conjunction with CAPHC’s Annual meeting in Vancouver on October 19, 2006. Please note that all participating centres will be acknowledged at each workshop.

Your participation and feedback are extremely important to us and I would greatly appreciate if you could complete the survey at the following link by July 7, 2006. The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

» Complete Survey

As CAPHC liaisons, you may want to refer this survey link to the individual(s) or office(s) who would be most familiar with children’s environmental health issues.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.As always, many thanks to all for your collaboration!

Patient Identification Systems

This survey has now been completed.

» Survey Results (PDF, 168 KB)
» Thank-you for your participation (PDF, 79KB)

Opportunities to share and seek best practices in many different areas of infant, child and youth health service delivery continue to be a frequent request from many of our members.

As a commitment to all our members, CAPHC is pleased to serve as a communication broker, by sharing these requests to "problem solve" as a national paediatric community of practice.

Gerarda Cronin and her colleagues at the Child Health Quality Team and the Women’s Health Program at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority are currently examining the safety of patient identification systems for small infants and would appreciate hearing from CAPHC members regarding your respective experiences.

They have been having problems with Hollister Bands that are too loose and fall off really
small babies and are wondering if other paediatric colleagues across the country have experienced similar problems.

Below you will find a link to a very brief questionnaire that outlines a few specific questions and I would greatly appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this and return it directly to Gerarda at ccronin@hsc.mb.ca. You may wish to share this survey with your Nursing Leader colleagues.

Your collective responses will be posted on the CAPHC web site (www.caphc.org) so that we may share your experiences and recommendations with other paediatric colleagues!

CAPHC is pleased to facilitate this request and we look forward to hearing from other members about new collaborative opportunities based on our common goals and objectives!

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks to all!

» Download Survey (PDF, 92 KB)

Clinical Pathways: A National Survey

This survey has now been completed.

» Survey Results (PDF, 1.17 MB)
» Thank-you for your participation (PDF, 108 KB)

The CAPHC national office has recently been contacted by our CHEO colleague, Louise Martin regarding the utilization in Canada, of clinical pathways across our pediatric communities.

Below you will find some background information and a brief survey that Louise has asked CAPHC to share with all our members. These data will be presented at a UK conference “Integrated Care Pathways” in June 2006 and will be submitted as a poster abstract for the upcoming CAPHC Annual Meeting in the fall of 2006 in Vancouver. All participating centres will be acknowledged at both of these meetings.

Your participation and feedback are extremely important to us and I would greatly appreciate if you could complete this survey and return it by March 15, 2006, to Louise Martin at the following email address - martin_l@cheo.on.ca.

As CAPHC liaisons, you may want to refer this survey to the individual or office who would be most familiar with the full range of clinical pathways within your respective organizations. FYI, the survey can be completed on line and emailed directly to Louise.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

As always, many thanks to all for your collaboration!

»Download Survey (PDF, 149 KB)