To ensure safety of our patients, students, instructors and staff on site, Vancouver Coastal Health has implemented a new enhanced screening process.
New students/instructors who are new to the long term care site or have been away from the site for more than 14 days, must complete the enhanced screening form 3 business days prior to their first shift and submit it to the manager, or to their group instructor if they are a group of students.
LGH (including Evergreen Residential Care) and SGH (including Hilltop Residential Care) require all students to have training in order to access CST Cerner to document care. Prerequisite on-line modules must be complete before attending training and can be accessed via the Learning Hub. In addition via the Learning Hub, you will be notified of your classroom training which will take place on your first or second day on site. Download
CST training checklist for students (excluding medical students and residents).
See more information on the CST pre-placement process for students.
See the Omnicell section at the end of the page for instructions.
All Nursing students require Meditech access. Access setup:
A modify account form must be submitted to IMITs on the network computer and request LIVE, TEST and OE.
Must then email Tanico Tan (tanico.tan@phsa.ca) and provide same information: name, ID, ticket number, LIVE, TEST and OE and access similar to listed above.
See the Omnicell section at the end of the page for instructions.
Nursing instructors who wish to have PCIS access to support their students can take the
PCIS VA/RH Basics - Student Nurses online course on the Learning Hub. Access will be granted once the training is completed and the instructor's name is entered in the HSPnet placement details.
See the Omnicell section at the end of the page for instructions.
EMR training is automatically arranged through Clinical Education for students. The date chosen is on or after the start date as listed in HSPnet. EMR Clinical training is typically only offered on Mondays and students need to organized their schedules to be available to attend these classroom dates to be prepared for their VCH placements. If a school has 8 or more students needing EMR training, a specific date possibly can be arranged by the school placing coordinator reaching out to
Placements@vch.ca at least one month in advance or earlier of the placement start date.
EMR training confirmations will be sent directly to student's school email. If a student has not received a training confirmation approximately two weeks before the placement start date, please email
Placements@vch.ca for assistance.
Important: PARIS access and training is required only for specific VCH sites within Community. If you are unsure whether or not you are required to take the training, check with your school coordinator.
The PARIS training is offered on the Learning Hub. The online training is self-paced and takes approximately 2.5 hours to complete. It can be accessed on any computer with internet access.
Review the
PARIS training instructions for students.
For designated sites in VCH Community, Primary, and Long Term Care, Pixalere is used by nurses to electronically document wound, incision, tube/drain and ostomy care.
Student nurses must have placement at a site that is using Pixalere. Student nurses will be directed by their University/College Instructor to attend Pixalere Training.
Instructors needing training for their group of nursing students please contact Neal Dunwoody at
neal.dunwoody2@vch.ca.
Training is provided in two parts;
20651 Pixalere Foundations – Student (Through Learning Hub). A set of self-directed modules that cover Pixalere basics.
10848 Wound Documentation: eWMS Pixalere (Nursing-Student). (Through Learning Hub). Instructor led online training expanding on the Foundations modules.
The Pixalere Team will set up registration for both sections in advance. Registration by eForm is not required for this training.
Pixalere Foundations – Student is a mandatory pre-requisite for the instructor led online training, Wound Documentation: eWMS Pixalere (Nursing-Student).
Individual Preceptorship Nursing Students may attend regular Community training sessions (VCH Pixalere Wound Documentation - (Community & Primary Care Nursing). An eForm is submitted by the destination site coordinator or VCH authorizer (delegate) once the Home Health Placement is verified. The student will then be emailed a private link to sign up for a session on Learning Hub.
Students and instructors may be required to access Omnicell to dispense medications and registration for access is required 2 weeks before the placement starts. If an instructor is not entered into HSPnet, they will not get the student's account information sent to them. Returning students who have been previously auto provisioned an "S" account number will not have their account information resent for ongoing placements. Students are to keep their account information for their entire program and give to their instructors for registering them for Omnicell.
Instructors email the following information to LGHOmnicellSystemAdmin@vch.ca as listed below:
Instructor name and school
Student's name
Student/Instructor User ID (auto provisioned "S" or "E" account number)
Location of placement
Start and end dates of placement
Instructors email the following information to PRGH_pharmacy@vch.ca as listed below:
Instructor name and school
Student's name
Student/Instructor User ID (auto provisioned "S" or "E" account number)
Location of placement
Start and end dates of placement
Students and instructors may be required to access Omnicell to dispense medications and registration for access is required
2 weeks before the placement starts. If an instructor is not entered into HSPnet, they will not get the student's account information sent to them. Returning students who have been previously auto provisioned an "S" account number will not have their account information resent for ongoing placements. Students are to keep their account information for their entire program and give to their instructors for registering them for Omnicell.
Instructors email the Unit managers or Unit educators with the following information:
Instructor name and school
Student's name
Student/Instructor User ID (auto provisioned "S" or "E" account number)
Location of placement
Start and end dates of placement
Please ask the Unit manager or educator to forward the email to
RHSOmnicellPharmacySystem@vch.ca
Instructors email the following information to
Omnicell.Administrator@vch.ca as listed below:
Instructor name and school
Student's name
Student/Instructor User ID (auto provisioned "S" or "E" account number)
Location of placement
Start and end dates of placement
Students in a preceptorship are trained by their preceptor/supervisor.
For group placements it is the responsibility of the on-site faculty to train the students in their group. We ask on-site faculty to arrange for Omnicell training prior to the clinical placement using a school instructor to school instructor approach.
Nursing students on a practicum placement within Vancouver Coastal Health use a generic student ID for the Accu-chek Inform II glucometer. Please check with your school for the current ID to use. Training will be given by your preceptor or on-site group instructor.