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Entre Nous
Élisabeth Bruyère Residence
April 2017
On the afternoon of March 23, Saint Louis Residence
held an event to thank employees, residents and
community members affected by the January 30th fire.
Thank you again to all!
Welcome to our Falls Prevention Leadership
Team Corner. This initiative is linked to our best
practices in fall prevention. Everyone has a role
to play in preventing falls, so join us in our
continued quest to reduce falls for our residents.
Ensure your loved one wears only shoes with
nonskid soles when walking (not Crocs or mule
slippers). It is also important for the resident to
wear adaptive clothes, thereby making it easier to
undress when they toilet themselves. Look for
more tips in next month’s newsletter!
Quality improvement is an
ongoing priority that helps us
continually transform resident
care.
In 2017, we will focus on four
indicators:
• the resident experience;
• the potentially inappropriate
prescribing of antipsychotics;
• the prevention of pressure
ulcers;
• the prevention of falls.
Stay tuned for more information
to be posted on the Quality
Matters boards on the units.
During a symposium in
March, Melissa Donskov
had the chance to present
the great work we are doing
on our Best Practice
Spotlight Organization
(BPSO) initiatives such as
falls prevention and oral
care. Saint Louis
Residence is one of the
Registered Nurses
Association of Ontario’s
Long-Term Care BPSO.
At Bruyère, learning is one of our fundamental values.
Welcome to the twenty-some students who started
their placement at our two long-term care homes in
March!
The personal support worker students come from the
Préposé aux services de soutien personnel program at Le
Carrefour. They get to put in practice what they have
learned and develop their competences working with
residents. The other students are from La Cité and
Algonguin College. These students are finishing their
degree to become a registered practical nurse (RPN).
During this six-week internship, they are paired with a
RPN and experience the therapeutic relationship between
the nurse and the resident.

"Residents do not live in
our workplace, we work
in their home."
It is important to respect
residents’ privacy. Before
entering a resident’s room,
visitors and employees
should knock on the door,
wait for a response and
only enter upon
permission. If there is no
response, knock again and
announce your name and
the reason of your visit.
The residents’ skin is fragile and a precious barrier
against infections.
Prevention of pressure ulcers is the February and
March theme in continuing education at the Élisabeth
Bruyère Residence. This subject represents a
mandatory education topic in long-term care.
Employees are reviewing best practices in pressure
wound prevention through a module that includes a
poster, a booklet and a quiz.
It is our employees' duty to examine each
resident's skin at each shift, to see if there are
changes and to share this information.
To come in April
2
9
16
Birthdays of the month
2 p.m., 5th floor
Birthdays of the month
2 p.m., 6th floor
Easter Sunday Mass
10:30 a.m., Chapel
Happy
Easter
For more information, refer to the Therapeutic Support
Services calendar or contact Mathilde Lafortune
(mlafortune@bruyere.org or ext. 1649).
Send us
your stories
Do you have a funny,
touching, story that is
worth sharing?
Send it to Anne-Laure
Grenier
(agrenier@bruyere.org or
ext. 2518).
Ontario long-term homes care for residents until the end of life
and many have embraced a hospice palliative care
approach. This approach is guided by a philosophy, value,
and care practice that aims to relieve suffering and improve the
quality of life for persons who are living with, or dying from,
advanced illness.
Clear communication at the end of life is particularly important.
Algonquin College and the Bruyère CLRI have developed a
comprehensive set of learning materials on this topic. Visit
http://clri-ltc.ca to watch a webinar by palliative care nurse
educator, Ruth Richardson, on using the palliative care
approach to inform communication at the end of life.