Fall breeze, crunchy leaves, let’s celebrate the season with a spooky scary spirit week, please! From October 28 to November 2, we hope you will take a moment to celebrate your team spirit during Shared Health’s Fall Spirit Week.
Throughout the week you are invited to participate in themed activities and challenges. Join your colleagues, teammates, co-workers and other staff from across the health system to celebrate the season and get creative with activities that promote teamwork and fun!
Get creative and share your spooky spirit with us! Each day will offer fall themed events, decoration challenges and team-building activities. Share a seasonal spooky moment with colleagues and co-workers who are so important to each of us. Send in photos (or video!) of you dressed up, your decorated department, or participating in one of our many activities and you could win a $25 gift card! Prizes will be awarded to some of the best dressed teams, decorated workspaces as well as through our Manitoba Cafes nominations and Haunted Manitoba Quiz!
- All contests close Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CST. Winners must be current health-care worker at a Manitoba facility, program or service.
- Wondering if your answers were correct? View the Haunted Manitoba Quiz Answer Key
- Note: submissions may be featured digitally on Shared Health channels unless otherwise specified.
Reminders:
Throughout Spirit Week all staff must still follow Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment, Uniform (where applicable), Fire Codes, Physical Distancing requirements and The Personal Health Information Act (PHIA). It should be noted that although we encouraging you to dress up and decorate this does not change the protocols within your area.
A reminder, all staff must comply with PHIA protocols when taking photos. Shared Health’s policy prohibits staff from taking photos of patients, PHI, or photos that identify any locations, facilities, operations, products, and posting them online.
Please remember to adhere the following IP&C protocols:
- Proper hand hygiene
- Appropriate PPE worn at all times, except when eating and drinking
- Respect maximum occupancy and physical distancing requirements
- Costumes must not interfere with patient care or uniform requirements
- Communal foods/eating must adhere to all site/SDO requirements
To socialize safely and decorate within IP&C guidelines, we will ask staff to review these documents:
- All festivities must abide by infection prevention and control provincial requirements available here: COVID-19 Specific Disease Protocol
- Holiday Decorating Guidelines
- Seasonal Decorating Facility Management Guidelines
