Safer Healthcare Now! in partnership with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada invite you to participate in a Medication Reconciliation in Home Care Virtual Action Series.  This series is designed to support home care organizations improve medication safety through medication reconciliation.  Participants will attend five learning sessions over a three month period and be supported by faculty between sessions.

Join us in this Virtual Action Series as we work together to spread medication reconciliation in home care across the country!

Click here for more information
Click here to Register!  or join one of the following information calls:

English MedRec In Home Care VAS Info Session
Date: August 17, 2010
Time: 0900 PDT; 1000 MDT; 1100 CDT; 1200 EDT; 1300 ADT; 1330 NDT
WebEx: Click here to Register for the Call

English MedRec In Home Care VAS Info Session
Date: September 7, 2010
Time: 0900 PT; 1000 MT; 1100 CT; 1200 ET; 1300 AT; 1330 NT
WebEx: Click here to Register for the Call

French MedRec In Home Care VAS Info Session
Date: September 7, 2010
Time: 11am PT; 12pm MT; 1pm CT; 2pm ET; 3pm AT; 3:30 NT
WebEx: Click here to Register for the Call
 
For more information please contact Debbie Conrad at Debbie.conrad@von.ca  

Bienvenue! La campagne Des soins de santé plus sécuritaires maintenant! en partenariat avec l’Institut canadien pour la sécurité des patients (ISCP), les Infirmières de l’Ordre de Victoria du Canada et l’Institut pour l’utilisation sécuritaire des médicaments du Canada (ISMP Canada) vous invitent à participer à la Série d’apprentissage virtuel (SAV) sur le Bilan comparatif des médicaments en soins à domicile. Cette série est conçue pour apporter du soutien aux établisements de soins à domicile afin d’améliorer l’utilisation sécuritaire des médicaments par le biais du Bilan comparatif des médicaments. Les participants assisteront à cinq séances d’apprentissage étalées sur une période de trois mois. Des experts apporteront du soutien entre les séances.
 
Les résultats du projet pilote sur le Bilan comparatif des médicaments en soins à domicile de la campage Des soins de santé plus sécuritaires maintenant! (2008-2009) ont démontré que parmi les 611 clients sélectionnés pour faire l’objet d’un Bilan comparatif des médicaments, 45.2 % (275) avaient au moins une divergence nécessitant une clarification par un prescripteur autorisé. Les cliniciens ayant participé à ce projet pilote ont pu éviter des événements indésirables potentiels.
Joignez-vous à cette série d’apprentissage virtuel afin de nous aider à faire déployer le Bilan comparatif des médicaments en soins à domicile partout à travers le pays.
Pour en savior plus…

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant!
Séance d’information sur la série d’apprentissage virtuel sur le Bilan comparatif des médicaments (BCM) en soins à domicile  
En anglais, avec support francophone
17 août 2010  
9 h HP; 10 h HR; 11 h HC; midi HE; 13 h HA; 13 h 30 HTN
WebEx: https://cpsi-icsp.webex.com/cpsi-icsp/k2/j.php?ED=135223202&UID=1130884732&RT=NCMxMw%3D%3D&FM=1

Séance d’information sur la série d’apprentissage virtuel sur le Bilan comparatif des médicaments (BCM) en soins à domicile  
En anglais
7 septembre 2010
9 h HP; 10 h HR; 11 h HC; midi HE; 13 h HA; 13 h 30 HTN
WebEx: https://cpsi-icsp.webex.com/cpsi-icsp/k2/j.php?ED=135224217&UID=1130884867&RT=NCMxMw%3D%3D&FM=1

Séance d’information sur la série d’apprentissage virtuel sur le Bilan comparatif des médicaments (BCM) en soins à domicile
En français
7 septembre 2010
9 h HP; 10 h HR; 11 h HC; midi HE; 13 h HA; 13 h 30 HTN
WebEx: https://cpsi-icsp.webex.com/cpsi-icsp/k2/j.php?ED=135224557&UID=1130884812&RT=NCMxMw%3D%3D&FM=1
 
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec Debbie Conrad: Courriel : Debbie.conrad@von.ca

CPSW Website Planners’ Guide
This guide is designed to provide busy health care providers with ideas on potential Canadian Patient Safety Week activities to do and resources available.

Click here to download the file.

Placemats

Click here to download the high resolution bilingual (French on one side and English on the other.) placemats.

There are Word versions of the placemats with a text box that allows insertion of text for patient safety champions who wish to use this resource but add their own patient safety tips. Click here for the English version and click here for the French version.

Organizations can print their own quantities. These placemats can be used on patient hospital trays, in hospital cafeterias and in restaurants willing to promote the week in their communities. The placemats could be handed out at displays and visitors to the display asked to write down their questions and comments. These completed placemats could be displayed in busy people traffic areas in healthcare facilities to increase awareness and dialogue around patient safety.

CPSI/MIPS Generic Radio Ad

Click the respective radio ads to hear the message.

• English v1
• English v2
• Ojibway
• Cree

Question & Answer Backgrounder

To download the Questions & Answers in MS WORD format, click here.

Menu of Patient Safety Questions
CPSW participants may wish to review the menu of possible questions to ask when hosting a draw or providing giveaways.

Click here to download the file.

Links to Tools

Canadian Patient Safety Institute website

Click here to be directed to the CPSW website

Medication Card

The It’s Safe to Ask Medication Card is for people to record medications. The purpose of the card is to

• promote patient safety through safe use of medications,
• encourage people to ask questions about their medications, and
• help healthcare providers and emergency responders know patients’ current medications

Click here to learn more.

Patient Advocate Form

The Patient Advocate Form is a tool developed by the Institute’s Patient Advisory Committee to help people name a person(s) who can advocate, or speak up, and act on their behalf. The form includes a checklist of tasks a patient may want an advocate to do.

Click here to download the file.

“Do You Have This?” Poster

Click here to download the poster.

Public Service Announcements

It’s Safe to Ask (ISTA) Brochures, posters and audios.

The brochures and posters are available in 15 languages.

To learn more visit the It’s Safe to Ask website.

Brandon Regional Health Authority’s “Room of Horrors” Activity

Click here to download the PDF file and click here to download the Word file.

Events Form

Click here to complete the CPSW Events Form.

Please send the completed form to dwhite@mbips.ca.

We greatly appreciate hearing from all our enthusiastic CPSW participants! We will create a photo gallery of CPSW photos sent to us

Congratulations to all participants for your commitment to Canadian Patient Safety Week!

Canadian Patient Safety Week Project Partners

September 2, 2010, 12 - 1pm Pacific Daylight Time
Location:  https://bcpsqc.webex.com

Presented by: Marlies van Dijk, and Tanis Rollefstad, Safety and Improvement Advisors, Safer Healthcare Now! Western Node
Hear tips and lessons from teams across the country who have implemented the Surgical Checklist in their hospitals. Presenters, Marlies van Dijk and Tanis Rollefstad from Safer Healthcare Now!, who facilitate the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Checklist Action Series. They will summarize what providers, staff and improvement teams have identified as challenges and strengths when it comes to implementing the Surgical Checklist. They will comment on what has been learned recently about measurement and implementation of the checklist, and what value the checklist can bring to the teamwork and culture of the operating room. Go to  https://bcpsqc.webex.com to register.

 The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) is partnering with 3M to study the impact of using Six Sigma methodology versus traditional quality improvement approaches used in acute and long term care facilities to help organizations achieve and sustain hand hygiene compliance targets. This project will compare the efforts of the two approaches to hand hygiene.

CPSI is inviting organizations to consider applying for inclusion in this study. They are looking for 20 participating organizations to enroll in this project. The deadline for your application to CPSI is September 7, 2010. MIPS may consider contributing funds to the application fee.  Organizations interested in this funding opportunity should contact Laurie Thompson by August 20, 2010.

For detailed project information and to download the application form, go to Call for Participation – Hand Hygiene Case Study or contact Murray Doggett at mdoggett@cpsi-icsp.ca, or call (613) 738-9130.

September 23 - 24, 2010

Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel

For more information go to http://www.oha.com/