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Escape Room: Innovative Educational Platform

Melisa AvanessInfection Prevention and Control Coordinator

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Objectives

• Describe the design of “Escape Room” – incorporating infection prevention and control and quality and patient safety principles.

• Qualitative results from participants

• Lessons learned

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Setting

• Tertiary care Academic teaching hospital located in Toronto, Ontario

• 1325 beds (including 500 veteran beds and 74 bassinets)

• Multi site Centre:

– Bayview Campus

– Holland Musculoskeletal program

– St. Johns Rehab (SJR)

• Specialty programs: Trauma, Cancer, Cardiovascular and Neuroscience

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Issue

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Escape Room Specification

• 2018 National Infection Control Week– Collaborated with Quality and Patient Safety department

– Designed an “Escape Room”

• Participants given a patient scenario

• Completion time : 15 minutes

• Facilitator provides clues upon request cost 30s

• 5 minutes debrief

• The team with the shortest completion time was

recognized for their achievement.

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Patient Scenario

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Riddles

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Advertisement and Registration

• Advertised through:– Intranet

– Posted on units

– Promoted in clinical

educator council

• Participants registered through eventbrite

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Brought to you by Sunnybrook Infection Prevention and Control

& Quality and Patient Safety departments

The escape room

The escape room

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Housekeeping rules and instructions given by facilitator

Max: x3

One riddle will lead to next one.

Solve them in order

Team reading the patient scenario

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Riddle # 2Patient Safety Hazards

2‐ broken walker

1‐ falls risk

3‐ open suture kit

4‐ brakes not on

Group deciding on the correct folder to pick to solve the next clue

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The nurse enters the patient’s room and notices that the urine bag is full. The nurse empties the urine bag in the toilet, then adjusts the patients pillow and exits the room.

How many hand hygiene opportunities are there?  

3 opportunities

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Passcode: 6, 8, 4, 2, 7

Doffing PPE sequence = passcode

Recite the correct order of taking off PPE in order to finally escape the room

Use PPE passcode to open the lockbox

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Results

• 48 staff members registered for the activity.– 9 teams (4-6 members each team)

• Diverse professional backgrounds

• Participants feedback: “fun”,

informative, challenging

• Repeated in all 3 sites for

“patient safety week”

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Pharmacy, 1, 2%

Physician, 2, 4%

Allied Health, 6, 13%

Clerical, 3, 7%

Nursing, 5, 11%

Microbiolgy, 6, 13%

Research, 5, 11%

Senior Leadership, 5, 

11%

Other, 8, 17%

Project management , 

5, 11%

Participants' professional backgrounds

Pharmacy

Physician

Allied Health

Clerical

Nursing

Microbiolgy

Research

SeniorLeadershipOther

Projectmanagement

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Lessons learned

• Innovative learning platform

• Promotes application of knowledge

• Adjunct to education in lecture format

• Can be customized for various topics/settings (e.g.. Aseptic technique, critical care environment, hemodialysis, etc.)

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