Speakers Bureau

The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety is pleased to promote our “Speakers Bureau,” where Manitoba experts in various aspects of patient safety connect and plan educational opportunities.
Speakers are available to address the following topic areas:

• Patient safety - general concepts
• Leadership, accountability and implementation issues related to patient safety
• Involving patients in patient safety
• Implementation of Patient Advisory Councils
• World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient
  Safety at the international and national levels
• Taking medication histories and medication reconciliation
• “It’s Safe to Ask” – introducing this health literacy initiative in your organization; how patients can get involved
• Infection control and prevention of adverse events
• Infectious diseases in general
• Infectious complications of diabetes
• Blastomycosis
• The PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) quality improvement model
• Collaborative model for quality improvement
• ICU collaborative
• Introducing Medical Emergency Teams (Rapid Response Teams)
• Culture and its impact on patient safety
• Walkabouts
• Safer Healthcare Now! interventions
• The SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) communication technique

Organizations interested in having someone speak at their professional development session on an area listed here can contact MIPS for further information. Planning the event is the responsibility of the organization. MIPS will cover a small speaker honorarium.