Foundations of Healthcare Excellence: Jigsaw Puzzle Activity
This activity is designed to explore how patient safety, equity, engagement and cultural safety are interconnected, and how together they create the conditions for excellence in care.
- Topics
- Cultural Safety
- Health equity
- Patient engagement
- Audience
Community organization
Healthcare leader
Policy advisor or analyst
- Format
Facilitation guide designed to be used alongside a set of accompanying puzzle pieces, each featuring a reflection question. Each puzzle piece represents one perspective or entry point into the broader conversation
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What's inside
The Foundations of Healthcare Excellence Jigsaw Puzzle activity can be facilitated using one or multiple pieces, depending on the group size and time available.
The goals of this activity are to:
reflect on how individual beliefs and behaviors influence safety, cultural safety, equity and engagement
examine how health systems at regional, provincial and pan-Canadian levels influence safety, cultural safety, equity and engagement across individuals, teams and institutions
develop a deeper understanding of the interconnected nature of patient safety, cultural safety, equity and engagement
identify concrete actions to help create safer, more equitable and culturally safe care and engagement-capable environments
Why it matters
Everyone involved in care, whether delivering it or receiving it, has a role to play in shaping safer, more equitable and more person-centred health systems. Each of these foundations is important on its own, but their real power lies in how they connect and reinforce one another in practice.