Archive for May, 2010

Time is Myocardium (May 31, 2010)

Published by redgie on May 31, 2010 in Past Events. 0 Comments

  

Time is Myocardium

We have an exciting opportunity that will help you improve AMI care. This opportunity will enable you to collaborate with Canadian colleagues and expert faculty to ensure thrombolytics are given within 30 minutes of hospital arrival. Enrolment is limited so please act quickly if you want to secure space for your team.
 
This AMI Virtual Learning Collaborative creates a learning network for healthcare professionals focused on a specific improvement project within a defined timeframe and learning structure. This program connects people using internet and telephone communication to create an interactive learning environment. The improvement work is done in a series of Virtual Learning Sessions, Action Periods, and WebEx Calls.

What are the benefits of joining Virtual Learning Collaborative?
The topics and programs within Virtual Learning Collaborative will allow participants to:

  • Learn to apply improvement methodology to achieve local success
  • Share learning and network with Colleagues across Canada
  • Improve care and standardize implementation of evidence - based clinical care protocols and documentation to reliably produce measurable results in a defined time
  • Access, share, and adapt key change ideas, tools, resources and latest knowledge from the implementation initiatives within  a broad learning network
  • Work with clinical experts and improvement professionals to successfully implement practice changes

Who should join this group?

The AMI VLC is most applicable to teams who provide initial care to people experiencing an Acute Myocardial Infarction. Healthcare professionals whomightconsider joining include: ER nurses, ERPs, Cardiologists, Cardiology Technologists,  Paramedics; Department/Service Mangers; Clinical Nurse Specialists; or Educators, Respiratory Therapists and any other healthcare professionals who have an interest in improving AMI care.


Click here to Register!
Click here for more information on Call to Action and more…Start Time: 1000 PDT; 1100 MDT; 1200 CDT; 1300 EDT; 1400 ADT; 1430 NDT
WebEx: https://cpsi-icsp.webex.com/cpsi-icsp/j.php?J=969447012For more information:
please contact Dannie Currie at  curried@cbdha.nshealth.ca

The Bedside Observer Project (May 20, 2010)

Published by redgie on May 20, 2010 in Past Events. 0 Comments

The Bedside Observer Project
May 20, 2010,

12 - 1pm PDT

Presenters:

  • Mark Ansermino, Director of Research, Department of Anesthesia, BC Children’s Hospital
  • Jeremy Daniels, MD Program, University of British Columbia

The presentation describes an innovative approach to learning from safety events at BC Children’s Hospital. The Bedside Observer Project involved family members in reporting safety incidents and near misses using a system integrated with the Patient Safety Learning System. This unique project provided valuable information for learning from safety events while engaging families as a valued part of the care team. Click here for more information.

Long Term and Continuing Care Annual Conference (May 18, 2010)

Published by redgie on May 18, 2010 in Past Events. 0 Comments

The Long Term and Continuing Care Association of Manitoba is hosting their 2010 Conference.

Conference details are as follows:
May 18, 2010
Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre
1808 Wellington Avenue

The theme for the  conference is “Respect and Protect”. The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety is proud to sponsor Alister Browne, PhD. Dr. Browne is a Clinical Professor and the Ethics Theme Director in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.   His presentation is “Autonomy in Long Term Care“.

Improving Acute Myocardial Infarction care: Virtual Learning Collaborative (May 17, 2010)

Published by redgie on May 15, 2010 in Past Events. 0 Comments

Improving Acute Myocardial Infarction care: Virtual Learning Collaborative

Registration opens May 17, 2010 via webex

Safer Healthcare Now! in partnership with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute invites you to participate in an Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Virtual Learning Collaborative- Time is Myocardium, designed to improve the timely administration of Thrombolytic agents.

Over the past year Safer Healthcare Now! teams have reported that between 44 and 70 per cent, or an average of 62 per cent of AMI patients who received thrombolytics had this myocardium-saving treatment delivered within 30 minutes of hospital arrival. For safer care, we need to improve the timely administration of thrombolytic agents!

Participants will attend four learning sessions and a closing congress scheduled over the course of the year, beginning in June 2010 and ending in February 2011. The learning sessions and team calls will be held using WebEx technology. Registration opens on May 17, 2010.  Check http://www.saferhealthcarenow.ca/ for further information.

Event Review: Public Forum (May 5, 2010)

Published by redgie on May 7, 2010 in Event Review. 0 Comments

Public Forum 2010
Removing Baririers for Recovery - We Listen, We Learn, We Evolve

In partnership with the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba, the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety hosted a public forum titled REMOVING BARRIERS FOR RECOVERY - WE LISTEN, WE LEARN, WE EVOLVE - A PUBLIC FORUM FOR PATIENT SAFETY IN MENTAL HEALTH at 6:30 pm, May 5th, 2010 at the Sam Cohen Auditorium, St Boniface Research Centre, 351 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg.

This was an opportunity to develop knowledge about the perspective of patients and family members about patient safety in mental health. One in five Canadian will experience a mental illness in his or her lifetime.

The forum was attended by approximately 85 people in Winnipeg as well as participants attending at 12 telehealth sites across most regional health authorities in Manitoba. The forum provided an excellent opportunity for service providers and policy makers to learn from and with patients and their families with a lived experience of mental illness. .

Dr. Ben Thomas, the Director of Mental Health and Learning Disability for the National Patient Safety Agency Department of Health, England and National Health Service, United Kingdom, launched the evening with a brief presentation on his insights and experiences in creating programs and initiatives that have helped guide the agency and make it a world leader in a patient safety in healthcare.

Dr. Thomas has been responsible for producing the Good Practice Guidelines on the Independent Investigation of Serious Patient Safety Incidents in Mental Health; the Seven Steps to Patient Safety for Mental Health; Resuscitation in Mental Health and Learning Disability Services, and Preventing Harm to Children From Parents with Mental Health Needs. He was instrumental in developing the suicide prevention toolkit for inpatient care.

Following Dr Thomas’ presentation, participants in the audience were encouraged to share their perspectives. Annette Osted, Executive Director of the College of Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba facilitated the session. Participants raised excellent points and important issues related to their perceptions of patient safety and mental health.

The forum launched three days of learning and professional development by psychiatric nurses who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the regulation of the psychiatric nursing profession in Manitoba.

To link to a taped broadcast of the forum, go to http://www.sbrc.tv/1/watch/112.aspx . To borrow a copy of the DVD of the forum, call 927-6477.

Click here to go to the news releases. Click here to view the display posters, tent cards.

A report of the forum will be posted here in the near future, and copies will be available by calling the Institute at 204-927-6470.

The “Removing Barriers To Recovery” forum is the third in a series by the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety called “We Listen, We Learn, We Evolve”. The first forum in November 2007 focused on the importance of disclosure and apologies to patients and their families when adverse healthcare events take place. Patient safety in long term care was the subject of the second forum. The purpose of the series is to give Manitobans a greater voice on a subject that is of interest and importance to the public regarding patient safety in Manitoba’s healthcare system.