COVID-19 Recommendations and Links (previously on homepage til June 2020)
COVID-19 Information from the Government of Canada Resources for Healthcare Professionals
Recommendations from the Canadian Nurses Association March 12, 2021
Prevention and Management of Skin Damage Related to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Webinar (1hr) presented by NSWOCC
Every hospital in Canada must refer to their provincial/territorial and regional public health authorities when developing policies and guidelines to support clinicians and patient care. The spread of Covid-19 is currently being managed by implementing the following precautions: airborne (for aerosol generating procedures), droplet and contact. For further information about infection prevention and control measures please refer to this link Section 2, 2.1-2.4 of The ORNAC Standards, Guidelines, and Position Statements for Perioperative Registered Nurses (2019). For more specific information about the management of a Covid-19 patient in the perioperative setting we have provided some links for various provincial public health agencies.
Quebec: https://www.inspq.qc.ca/publications/2922-salle-operation-covid19
Ontario: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/diseases-and-conditions/infectious-diseases/respiratory-diseases/novel-coronavirus
BC: . http://www.bccdc.ca/health-professionals/clinical-resources/covid-19-care
Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/index.html
Saskatchewan: https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/health-care-administration-and-provider-resources/treatment-procedures-and-guidelines/emerging-public-health-issues/2019-novel-coronavirus/information-for-health-care-providers
Alberta: https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/Page16947.aspx
New Brunswick: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals.html#a5
Newfoundland: https://www.gov.nl.ca/covid-19/for-health-professionals-2/
Nova Scotia: http://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/coronavirus
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protocols, including doffing and donning and where and when PPE is needed, should follow the guidelines as outlined by your provincial/territorial health authority when providing care for a Covid-19 patient. There has been some variability noted between some of the PPE doffing recommendations that have been published by various organizations. ORNAC continues to recommend our published doffing procedures which align with one of the doffing options published by the CDC.
Perioperative Registered Nurses should look at their process in their operating rooms to determine the best way to keep paper charts/documentation clean/away from potential sources of contamination. Since there is variability in the size of operating rooms across Canada process may differ between organizations.
Postition Statement
Canadian Associations
- Canadian Aesthesiologists' Society (CAS)
- Canadian Association of Medical Device Reprocessing (CAMDR)
- Canadian Medical Association (CMA)
- Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)
- Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS®)
- Canadian Nursing Student Association (CNSA)
- Canadian Operating Room Leaders (CORL)
- Canadian Red Cross
- CSA Group
- Friends of African Nursing Canada (FOAN)
- Infection Prevention and Control Canada (IPAC Canada)
- Perioperative Nurse Educators of Canada (PNEC)
- Registered Nurses First Assistants Network of Canada (RNFANC) Content Coming Soon
International Associations
- Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Association for Perioperative Practice, United Kingdom (AfPP)
- Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN)
- European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA)
- International Federation of Perioperative Nursing (IFPN)
- International Council of Nurses (ICN)
- Perioperative Nurses College of New Zealand Nurses Organization(PNC of NZNO)
- World Health Organization (WHO)