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It’s personal
Experience first hand
Changes the conversation
Valuable resource
Shared accountability
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Policy & Governance
Education
Tools
Management & Executive Support
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Recommendations
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Ask Patients
Ask Leaders
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Ask the Patient
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Need to understand the right
questions to ask
 Dynamics of engaging public
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Variety of ways patients can
serve
 Quality improvement teams
 Safety and quality committees
 Grievance committees
 Co-evaluator of service
 Executive position
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Guard
Education
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Patient education
 Community role
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Health care provider education
Committee and policy work
Advisory roles
 Selection role
 Planning committees
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Education
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Means to improve
engagement
Means of engagement
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Group Work
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Committees
Policy development
Advisory councils
Culture
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Patient voice must be heard
Patient safety issues exist outside the hospitals
Culture seen as barrier
Education seen as key
Recommendatio
ns
Ask Patients, Ask Families
The Stories
Narratives in patient safety week
Patients stories for presentations
Case studies as learning tools
Patient reporting of events
Community outreach education
Public forums, focus groups, means of providing
input
Recommendati
ons
Small change focus – ripple effect, incremental
change that sticks
Offer concrete suggestions on steps to
start
Present tools to assist in change
Training patients for involvement
Patient selection and insertion into existing
committees
Appropriate measures that can be tracked
and collected easily
Recommendations
Use the media
Recommendat
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Research needed
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Non-health care provider
patients
Primary care safety issues
Never harmed patients
Does monitoring role
increase safety?
Creation of harm through
participation
Recommendatio
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Roles must fit within present culture
Is Handwashing monitoring –
setting patients up for failure and
guilt?
Anne McLaurin and staff of CPSI
Participants in focus groups
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Heather Richardson
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780 407-6088
[email protected]
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