Core Content

Knowledge-Based Practice

Uses relational practice to conduct a person-focused mental health and/or substance use assessment, and develops a plan of care in collaboration with the person, family, and health team to promote recovery.

VCH Policies & Guidelines

  1. VCH Policy: Harm Reduction Practice
  2. VCH Policy: ECT Pre and Post Nursing Care
  3. Provincial Government: HealthLinkBC ECT Patient Information
  4. VCH & Kelty's Key Online CBT
  5. VCH Policy: Delirium: Screening, Assessment & Management
  6. VCH Policy Suicide: Risk Assessment, Prevention and Management ( community and Long-Term Care)
  7. VCH SOP: Overdose Prevention Care Planning

eLearning Courses

  1. Mental Health 101

    By Northern Health

    • 2 hours
    • Mar 2021

  2. Depression

    By Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

  3. Anxiety

    By Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

  4. Bipolar Disorder

    By Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

  5. Psychosis

    By Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

  6. Personality Disorders

    By Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

Additional Resources

  1. Alcohol Use Disorder Guidelines

    By BC Centre on Substance Use

    • 1 hours
    • Mar 2021

  2. Suicide Risk Assessment Toolkit: A Resource for Healthcare Workers and Organizations

    By Canadian Patient Safety Institute & The Mental Health Commission of Canada

    • 30 mins
    • Mar 2021

  3. Grief and Loss after an OD Death

    By The BC Centre on Substance Use

    • 1 hours
    • Apr 2021

  4. What to do when your loved one is in Crisis

    By VCH

    • Apr 2021

  5. Collaborative Care Planning in Mental Health (safety planning and comfort planning included)

    By Patient Safety Movement

    • 30 mins
    • Apr 2021

  6. The Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre

    • Apr 2021