Awards

PATIENT SAFETY STUDENTSHIP

The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety (MIPS) has previously submitted proposals to the CPSI Patient Safety Studentship. MIPS matches the funds provided by the CPSI up to $6,000.00 for a total award of up to $12,000.00. The award from MIPS is contingent upon the successful application by MIPS to the CPSI, and is not awarded unless CPSI funding is secured.

2009 Recipient, Patient Safety Studentship

This year’s successful recipient is Susan Wellings. Susan is a social work student at the University of Manitoba. The project is titled “Promoting Health Literacy with Seniors”. The project will take place in Carman, Manitoba in the Central Regional Health Authority.

2008 Recipient, Patient Safety Studentship

The 2008 recipient is Justin Ling, who will work with Cenzina Caligiuri, Senior Pharmacist at the Health Sciences Centre. The Studentship Project is “Establishing a Medication Reconciliation Discharge Process in a Pediatric Hospital”. The goal of this project is to develop a discharge process for medication reconciliation that would decrease medication errors/discrepancies when children are discharged from Children’s Hospital. The objectives include:

• Developing a discharge prescription form that includes a comprehensive current medication profile generated by the pharmacy computer system and which facilitates clear and correct medication prescription and reconciliation by nursing, physician, and pharmacy staff.
• Developing and implementing a multi-disciplinary discharge process that accurately communicates the discharge orders to the child, the child’s care giver(s) or families, community pharmacies, pediatricians and other healthcare facilities and promotes a culture of medication safety.
• Developing and using an audit tool for a baseline measurement and follow-up of the effectiveness and efficiencies of the new discharge process to ensure ongoing systematic structured medication audits.

Past recipients, Patient Safety Studentship

The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety is pleased to announce that our submission to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute Studentship competition for 2007 was successful.

The 2007 recipient is Ms Elaine Burland who will work with Dr Pat Martens from the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Her project is entitled “An Evaluation of a Personal Care Home Fall Management Program”.

The project is being done as part of a doctoral dissertation in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. The objective of this patient safety project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a fall ‘management’ program that has been implemented in five provincial personal care homes (PCHs) in North Eastman Regional Health Authority. This fall management program is intended to increase/maximize patient safety of PCH residents through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach. The program involves the implementation of various strategies aimed at reducing the severity of consequences associated with falls, and includes regular falls risk assessments, annual environmental audits, injury prevention strategies and post-fall protocols.