Dynamic Health March Round-up: New and Revised Workplace Notes and Custom Skills + Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month + National Poison Prevention Week

Dynamic Health round-up posts keep you informed about implementation and use of Dynamic Health at Nova Scotia Health. They highlight any new priority projects and events, as well as updates to our Workplace Notes and Custom Workplace Skills.

Updates: Reviewed Skills and Workplace Notes

We receive feedback submissions about Dynamic Health skills on an ongoing basis through the Suggest an Edit form and through partnerships with departments and teams.

We continue to process skill reviews received as a part of our second skill review push up to and including March 8th, 2024.

Reviewed: New Workplace Note

• Assisting With Needle Thoracostomy
• Preventing and Treating Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances
• Testing for COVID-19
• Preventing Surgical Risk Factors Related to Fluid-Electrolyte Status
• Using a Fall Risk Assessment Tool
• Managing Patients After Chemical Exposure
• Initiating Transcutaneous Pacing in Adults
• Performing Initial Assessment of Full-Term Laboring Patients

Reviewed: No Workplace Note

• Using a Gastric Feeding Tube for Continuous Feeding
• Assessing False Labor Braxton Hicks Contractions
• Monitoring Patients During First Stage of Labor
• Assessing and Monitoring Patients With Acute Skull Fracture
• Administering Oral Rehydration Therapy to Children and Adolescents
• Inserting a Winged-Needle Catheter

New Custom Skills

• Using the PronatorPlus™ (Melior Motus) for Positioning, Repositioning and/or Lateral Transfer
• Skin and Wound Care: Performing a Wound Culture and Susceptibility Swab (C&S)

Health Promotion in March and Dynamic Health Topics

March 2024 marks the promotion of:

• Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• National Poison Prevention Week, March 19th to 25th

In recognition of these health promotion events, we encourage you to engage with the curated list of Dynamic Health content below.

If you spot any Skills below that you feel need a Workplace Note, consider being a reviewer! Fill out our Suggestions for Skills form with your notes and we will get in touch!

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

• Skills/Procedures
  • Assessing the Rectum in Adults
  • Assisting with Colonoscopy
  • Removing and Applying an Ileostomy or Colostomy Appliance
• Disease Overviews
  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Lynch Syndrome
  • Large Bowel Obstruction, Adult
• Care Interventions
  • Colonoscopy Interventions, Adult
  • Colostomy Interventions
  • Large Bowel Resection (Colectomy) Interventions, Adult

• Signs & Symptoms
  • Rectal Pain
  • Hematochezia, Adult
  • Excessive Weight Loss, Adult

National Poison Prevention Week

The Atlantic Canada Poison Centre provides our local guidance on poisoning information. Dynamic Health content may be used in combination with their recommendations.

• Skills/Procedures
  • Responding to Accidental Poisoning
  • Educating About Accidental Poisoning Prevention
  • Managing Patients After Chemical Exposure
• Disease Overviews
  • Acetaminophen Poisoning, Adult
  • Acetaminophen Poisoning, Pediatric
  • Lead Poisoning, Adult
  • Mushroom Poisoning
• Care Interventions
  • Drug Overdose Interventions, Adult
  • Drug Overdose Interventions, Pediatric
  • Chemical Inhalation Injury Interventions, Adult
• Signs & Symptoms
  • Cyanosis, Adult
  • Pruritus, Adult
  • Acute Blood Pressure Decrease, Pediatric

Dynamic Health Project Team

Gloria Connolly, RN, BScN, NCA, WOCC(c), GNC(c)
Clinical Nurse Educator, (CNE)
Interprofessional Practice & Learning

Leah MacDonald
Professional Practice Leader
Interprofessional Practice & Learning, COVID-19 Response

Katie McLean
Librarian Educator
Interprofessional Practice & Learning, Library Services

Margaret Meier
Policy Lead
Policy Office

Ann Slaunwhite
Library Technician
Interprofessional Practice & Learning, Library Services