Health Care Professionals

Naloxone distribution

Ontario Naloxone Program (ONP)

Eligible community agencies are now able to order naloxone kits from the Health Department to distribute to:

• Individuals who are at risk of opioid overdose;
• Friends and family members of individuals at risk of opioid overdose;
• Newly released inmates at risk of opioid overdose

Assessment

• Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Assessment tool
  Instructions
• Enhanced 18-month well-baby visit: Durham Region community support checklist referral options

Naloxone kit order form (for registered sites)

Vaccine

• Act-Hib Vaccine: High Risk Client Order Form
• Hepatitis A vaccine: High risk client order form
• Hepatitis B vaccine: High risk client order form
• HPV9 vaccine: High risk client order form
• Meningococcal vaccine: High risk and batch order form
• Monthly vaccine order form
• School-based vaccines: Grade 7 to 12 students
  (Meningococcal-C-ACYW, Hepatitis B and HPV9 vaccine(s))
• Vaccine order form: Influenza 2018/2019

• Breastfeeding services referral form
• Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program referral form
• Perinatal mood disorders (PMD) peer support group referral form

• Adverse event following immunization (AEFI) report form
• Animal bite/exposure reporting form
• Animal disease reporting form for veterinarians
• Immunization record update form for parents
• Immunization: Statement of medical exemption for child attending child care
• Immunization: Statement of medical exemption for child attending school
• Health care worker influenza immunization coverage reporting form (DOC)
  Questions and answers

• Naloxone reporting form
• Vaccine cold chain inventory worksheet
• Vaccine return form

Alcohol

Alcohol screening, Brief Intervention and Referral (SBIR)

Patch for Patch Program (Opioids)

• Return Policy FAQs for health professionals
• Return Policy FAQs for patients
• Patch Return Record Sheet
• Safeguarding our Communities Act (Patch for Patch Return Policy), 2015
• Patch-For-Patch Fentanyl Return Program: Fact Sheet

Smoking

• Algorithm for Tailoring Pharmacotherapy in Primary Care Setting
• Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada website
• Tobacco screening, Brief Contact Intervention, the 5A’s
• Tobacco Use Intervention 5A pocket card

The Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is responsible for implementing Rowan’s Law. Please visit their website for information from the Ontario Government regarding this legislation.

• Know the Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport.
• Follow the return-to-sport strategy or return to school strategy for players who have had a concussion. Children are only safe to return after a doctor says so.
• Find other resources on concussions for health care professionals from Parachute Canada.
• Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport.

Diseases of public health significance

• Botulism - Guide for Healthcare Professionals
• Ebola Virus Disease
• Enterovirus D68
• Hepatitis C: Recommendations for public health response in Ontario - PHO
• Hepatitis C: Infectious Diseases Protocol
• Hepatitis C: CATIE website information
• Infection control in institutions
• Influenza: Durham Region's Pandemic Plan
• Influenza: MOHLTC
• Lyme Disease: PHO
• Lyme Disease: CDC
• MERS-CoV Guidance for Health Workers and Health Sector Employers,  MOHLTC
• Ontario Respiratory Pathogen Bulletin
• PIDAC Best Practices Documents
• Rabies: Management of Potential Exposures Guideline, 2018
• Rabies Virus: PHO
• Reportable Disease Trends in Ontario Interactive Tool
• Respiratory Infection Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Homes: A Guide
• Tuberculosis Booklet for Health Care Providers - The Lung Association
• Tuberculosis Canadian Standards, 2014
• Tuberculosis Screening Recommendations for Residents of Long-Term Care & Retirement Homes
• Tuberculosis Screening Recommendations for Employees and Volunteers

• Immunization: Canadian Guide Evergreen Edition
• Immunization: Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidelines
• Influenza vaccine general information
• Influenza vaccine information for individuals 6 months up to and including 17 years of age
• Influenza information for individuals 18 to 64 years of age
• Influenza information for individuals > 65 years of age

Perinatal mood disorder care pathway

• Potassium Iodide (KI) Guidelines
• RadBlock™ Potassium Iodide Tablets USP, 65 mg (Patient information sheet)

• Child Health News 2018 Edition
  A Health Department publication for health and social service providers with up-to-date information related to child health.
• Enhanced 18-month well-baby visit pathway
• Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program
• Preconception Health Screening Tool
• Preconception health: Infographic
• Preconception Care Booklet
• Preconception Health: Optimizing Health fact sheet

• Sexually Transmitted Infections: Canadian Guidelines
• Sexually Transmitted Infections: External Genital Warts Treatment

If you are a care provider working with older adults, take our e-course to prevent falls and injuries for your clients or family members.

Positive Steps Work e-course

Technology FAQs

• PHO - IPAC Online Learning Modules
• Personal Protective Equipment Video
• Hand Hygiene: Just Clean Your Hands - PHO

Launch the Link 'n' Learn online learning module