Oct 25, 2022 at 12:00 noon EST |
Now is the time to press play on safety conversations. Diving deeper into safety conversations, and information webinar for the Action Series. |
November 9, 2022 |
Deadline to apply to participate in the Action Series |
November 10, 2022 |
Teams will be notified of the outcome of the selection process |
November 23, 2022 |
Learning Session 1 (Zoom) noon-1:30 p.m. ET |
January 11, 2023 |
Learning Session 2 (Zoom) noon-1:30 p.m. ET |
February 15, 2023 |
Learning Session 3 and closing celebration (Zoom) noon-1:30 p.m. ET |
To participate, the first step is to apply here. Enrollment available for up to 20 teams. If there is high demand, the opportunity to repeat the Action Series will be explored. Enrollment is open to anyone, in any setting, across the continuum of care. If more than 20 teams apply those that care for older adults will be given priority in alignment with the theme of the Canadian Patient Safety Week.
Teams will be selected to participate in the Action Series based on criteria aligned with the team composition and expectations listed below.
There is no cost to participate.
Recommended team size is a minimum of five people. Team members should come from the same area or unit and should include a manager, point of care provider and a patient, resident or care partner. Additional team members to consider including are a senior leader, physician, quality improvement/patient safety staff, unit educator and allied health provider. Teams will interact with the people who work or receive care in the same area/unit to build and strengthen safety conversations.
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Responsibilities |
Manager/Team Lead |
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Point-of-care provider |
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Patients/residents/care partners |
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"A lot of patient safety has been chasing after things that has happened before. You will see things like policy, or regulation trying to fix what happened or what harm we have seen in the past. I think what we are seeing now is this emergence of creating safety, that past harm is not the same as creating safe systems or creating safety. I think in the past we have connected it with [harm]. If you've got harm then you aren't safe or if you can just get rid of all that harm, or focus on where we have had critical harm, we'll be safer. I think that was a fallacy. We are in a very complex environment and that really anticipating, reacting, responding doesn't come through a policy or a checklist. It comes through the dynamics that happens in a team, the way people think, make sense of things. I think that is a difference I am seeing in how we are thinking about safety."
Dr. Petrina McGrath, Health System Executive, People, Quality and Practice and Chief Nursing Executive, Lakeridge Health.