Pandemic Checklists for Schools of Nursing

Reka Gustafson MD, FRCPC

Communicable Disease Control

Vancouver Coastal Health

Pandemic Checklists

Framework for planning: Get started

Avoid duplication

Plan to do, do not plan to plan

Coordinate with regional plans

Update and revise

Pandemic Checklists for Colleges and Universities

Planning and Coordination

Business Continuity

Infection Control Policies & Procedures

Communications Planning

Nursing students as a resource in a pandemic

Planning and Coordination

Identify a person or persons responsible

Identify resources

Measure progress

Coordinate with regional health authorities and their plans

Exercise and update

Business Continuity

Minimize illness among students and staff

Identify essential activities and ensure that these are backed up with alternative arrangements; and

Mitigate disruptions Supplemental examinations

On-line teaching

Infection Control Procedures

Know and do what works: Annual influenza immunization

Promote influenza immunization

School based immunization clinics

Hand-washing Promote

Provide sufficient and accessible infection control supplies

Self-isolate when ill Promote culture of staying home when sick

Establish ways of decreasing face-to-face contact

Communications

Emergency communications plan Enhance communications and IT infrastructures

Test

Don’t overuse

Establish reliable sources of information

Communicate your plan

Nursing Students as a Resource

Individual Liberty

Protecting the Public from Harm

Proportionality

Privacy

Duty to Provide Care

Reciprocity

Trust

Solidarity

Stewardship

Nursing Students as a Resource

1. Identify and contact your local pandemic coordinator How do students of health professions fit into local

plans? http://www.vch.ca/pandemic/docs/ch08_human_resourc

es.pdf

Human Resources Surge Capacity

2. Identify areas where nursing students can provide service

Triage Sites Alternate Care Sites Vaccination Clinics

Nursing School Pandemic Checklist

3. Provide estimates of the number of students available for pandemic response

4. Identify appropriate skills at each level of training, to establish scope of practice: “The delegation of a medical act to persons other

than physicians may be appropriate in certain restricted circumstances in the interests of good patient care and efficient use of health care resources.”

Nursing School Pandemic Checklist

5. Include training in the curriculum Influenza

Influenza vaccination

Pandemic training package

http://www.vch.ca/pandemic/docs/pandemic_influenza_inservice.pdf

Immunization certification

Pandemic Checklist Tips

Start with what is already out there: http://www.vch.ca/pandemic/docs/colleges_checklist.pdf

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/pdf/colleges_universities.pdf

Consultation Focused and limited

Refer to specific chapters/pages in a regional plan

Plan for what you can

Use action based language

Identify what you can do now

Exercise and revise

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