Archive for October, 2008

Manitoba Elder Abuse Prevention Conference (October 28, 2008)

Published by admin on October 28, 2008 in Past Events. Closed

Members of the MIPS Patient Advisory Committee will be presenting at the Partnering towards the Prevention of Abuse of Older Adults Manitoba Conference to be held at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg. The presentation is titled “Partnering to Improve Patient Safety”. It will occur on Tuesday, October 28th (Day 2) from 10:30 am to 11:45 am.

The presentation will focus on “The Elderly Patient and Self-Advocacy toward the Prevention of Abuse”. The focus will be on prevention and what elderly patients and their family members/ caregivers should know about:

  • Patient rights such as informed consent, accessing personal health information, directing your health care decisions and protection of persons in care,
  • Some preventive resources (i.e. MIPS Medication Card) that can assist elderly patients in tracking their medications, and
  • Actions that promote patient safety and improve communication between patients and help care providers.

Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium – the 8th in the “Halifax Series” of Healthcare Symposia (October 23 – 25, 2008)

Published by admin on October 25, 2008 in Past Events. Closed

Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium – the 8th in the “Halifax Series” of healthcare symposia. October 23 – 25, 2008 Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Three ways to participate in the Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium!!!

The theme of the symposium is Healthcare and the Law. Everyone is healthcare works within a legislative framework and is impacted by the law. Areas to be addressed include:

  • What is a “good” apology?
  • What are the difficult conversations with patients, clients and co-workers?
  • Can we regulate safety?
  • Differing views on criminal liability
  • Debates on whether healthcare practitioners, administrators and lawyers see eye to eye on healthcare legal issues such as apology and disclosure
  • Advancing healthcare while protecting rights of patients, professionals and healthcare organizations.
  • Do inquiries and inquests actually help to improve healthcare safety?
  • What is the impact of malpractice litigation? Are there mechanisms other than litigation and what are their strengths and weaknesses?

Keynotes: Justice Murray Sinclair, Court of Queens Bench, Winnipeg, and Dr. Aaron Lazare, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston.

Moderator – Mr. Steven Lewis, President, Access Consulting. Saskatoon

Rapporteurs – The Honourable Horace Krever, retired Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, and Dr. Bob Wears, University of Florida, Jacksonville Florida.

There are also two excellent pre-symposium events that you won’t want to miss – Partnering for Patient Safety IV: Disclosure; and Decision Making and Judgement in Healthcare and the Law.

Ways your organization can participate!!

1. Attend in person – registration is still open! Go to www.buksa.com/halifax to register online
Enjoy meeting and networking with participants from across Canada at this premier patient safety event. Be closer to the action and the debates.

2. Join via webcast in real time!

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Due to the generous contribution of our partner RHA Central Manitoba Inc, your organization can offer webcasting of the Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium October 22 – 25, 2008. Registration as a webcast site is now free of charge to organizations in Manitoba.

Due to the bandwidth required for the webcast, webcasts should be organized at a site or organizational level. It is suggested that you confer with your IT staff to review technical requirements, which are listed on the website www.buksa.com/halifax - click on webcast.

Full conference and program details and the advance program can be viewed at www.buksa.com/halifax. The following is the webcast schedule:

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Pre-Symposium 1 (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) –
Partnering for Patient Safety IV: Disclosure

Objectives for this session focus on understanding the Canadian Disclosure Guidelines, learning about different perspectives on disclosure and articulating strategies to enable open and honest disclosure. The session will include vignettes on disclosure and experts will provide comments.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Core Program (8:00 am to 5:30 pm)

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Core Program Continued (8:00 am to 3:30 pm)

Register for the WEBCAST
Please click here to register for the WEBCAST

You will be asked for the name of your organization, and contact person – this information will be posted to the conference (www.buksa.com/halifax) website. The MIPS website will direct people to the conference website for a listing of host venues and contact people. If you have any trouble registering or any questions about registering individual sites, please contact halifax@buksa.com attention Sean Jones. Regional Health Authorities are free to register as many sites as you wish.

Registration as a webcast site is free of charge. Other costs related to your event, such as advertising the event in your organization, rental of your venue, etc. are the responsibility of your organization. You may also wish to pre-register attendees. Following the event, we will send you an email to ask for the estimated number of attendees at your venue.

Click here to view registered host sites in Manitoba.

3. Host an event following the symposium!

If you are interested in this option, please contact halifax@buksa.com attention Sean Jones.

National Infection Control Week (October 20-24, 2008)

Published by admin on October 24, 2008 in Past Events. 0 Comments

Infection Prevention and Control: Clean It Up

“Clean It Up: Stop the spread of AROs” is the theme of this year’s National Infection Control Week, October 20 - 24th , 2008. Manitoba’s Infection Control Week is being led by the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association (CHICA) Manitoba Chapter with the support of the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety (MIPS). Check back for details.

The prevention and control of infections is everybody’s business! Every Manitoban can prevent these infections by simply cleaning up! Here’s how;

  • Clean your hands with soap and water or waterless hand rub
  • If you have an infection, keep yourself and your house clean
  • Use antibiotics wisely; not all infections need medicine, ask your health care professional about the proper use of antibiotics
  • If you do have to take antibiotics make sure you finish all the pills. Do not share antibiotics with others.

CHICA Manitoba is one of 21 Canadian chapters that form CHICA-Canada, a national, multi-disciplinary, voluntary association of Infection Control Professionals. It is dedicated to the health of Manitobans by promoting excellence in the practice of infection prevention and control. Infection Control Professionals play a critical role in safeguarding the health of Manitobans – patients in hospitals, residents in long-term care facilities, children in daycares, students in schools, and people in the community

Resources:

Media release
http://www.chica.org/MANITOBA/2008Media_release.pdf

Toolkit
http://www.chica.org/MANITOBA/2008NICW_ToolkitComplete.pdf

Campaign poster
http://www.chica.org/MANITOBA/2008Campaign_poster.pdf


Tent card
http://www.chica.org/MANITOBA/2008Tent_card.pdf

NICW Page
http://www.chica.org/MANITOBA/icwmanitoba.html

Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres (CAPHC) 2008 Annual Conference (October 19-22, 2008)

Published by admin on October 22, 2008 in Past Events. 0 Comments

“Transforming Services for Children and Youth: Turning Our Thinking Inside Out!”

October 19-22, 2008; Edmonton Alberta

Planning for the 2008 Annual Meeting is well underway!
To view the preliminary program, please visit the web site at: www.caphc.org. To view poster click here.

“Care for all Seasons” (October 8, 2008)

Published by admin on October 8, 2008 in Past Events. Closed

The Long Term Care Association of Manitoba
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
0730 - 1610
Victoria Inn, Winnipeg

For more information on this one-day seminar please go to www.ltcam.mb.ca/news.htm

THIS SEMINAR IS INTENDED FOR ALL LONG TERM CARE MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS, AND SUPPORT STAFF…

Featuring: Patient Safety – Human Performance and Patient Safety with - Jim McMenemy

Sponsored by: Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety

For many years the focus of healthcare system management and staff has been to develop new technology to treat disease and to provide access to healthcare for all citizens. In the latter part of the 20th century a new concern, patient safety, was beginning to be expressed and then research verified that although we had always been aware of it, the issue was a bigger cause for concern than we had been aware. In other industries, it was found that most accidents could be traced back to some form of human error, and healthcare is no different. The traditional approach to this safety problem has been to find out who was to blame and take appropriate action to 1.) make sure they never did it again, and 2.) serve them up as examples to deter anyone else from making the same mistake.

In high-risk activities, such as the nuclear industry, aviation, and the chemical industry it was found that these methods did not work. We have found that safety is better served by understanding the risks and the ways in which human performance can be enhanced and error reduced by changing the equipment, procedures, and management practices to be more in tune with human beings and the way we actually make decisions and do our work.

This presentation will examine the nature of human error, some historical approaches, and suggest some ways to improve efficiency.