PEP guidelines and resources
Feedback gathered through PEP's various assessments over the years has been key in developing additional guidelines and resources to support licensees in community-based settings. Many of these guidelines focus on clinical care, patient and staff safety, and inform both office and peer assessments. They are grounded by provincial and national standards.
PEP assessment guidelines are not the same as CPSBC practice standards. CPSBC practice standards reflect the minimum standard of professional behaviour and ethical conduct expected of all licensees on a specific topic or issue.
The assessment guidelines apply to all licensees practising in community-based offices, including:
- private offices/solo practices
- walk-in clinics
- urgent-care clinics
- multi-licensee clinics
Peer assessment
- Patient Record Selection Instructions and Guidelines
- BC Assessment Framework and Scoring Rubric
- BCAT Practice Assessment Report Sample
Office assessment
- How effective management of test results improves patient safety
- Community Health Practice Access to PharmaNet
- Temperature log for vaccines and a vaccine storage troubleshooting record
- Reporting loss or theft of controlled substances or precursors
- Best Practices for Hand Hygiene (gov.bc.ca)
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- Guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control in the Physician’s Office (BCCDC)
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada
Medical device reprocessing
- Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia (PICNet)
- Best Practice Guidelines For Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization of Critical and Semi-critical Medical Devices
- Medical device reprocessing pre-assessment questionnaire
- Medical Device Reprocessing Assessment Tool for Steam Sterilization
- MDR assessment checklist for community-based clinics
- MDR assessment reference for creating instructions for staff
- Checklist for purchasing a tabletop steam sterilizer
- Videos:
- Sample records:
- Reprocessing Requirements for Ultrasound Probes (NHMSFAP manual)
- Reprocessing Toenail Burrs and Rotary Sanding Devices in the Podiatric Community-based Clinical Office (PEP position statement)
- List of guidelines, policies, standards used by other provinces