The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) invites you to a 2-hour discussion focused on Transforming Care.

On Friday, February 5, 2010, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Toronto time . . . .  three keynotes speakers will share their insights and contribute to a discussion led by Mary Ferguson Paré of the University Health Network. The program has been designed by Dr. Ross Baker of the University of Toronto and he will provide the context and introduce the session.

Your hosts are ACEN members and Dr. Mary Ferguson Paré and Dr. Ross Baker.

You do not have to be an ACEN member to participate in the webcast.

We have three noted guest presenters. Details below.

THIS IS A WEBCAST made available to all users by BAXTER

[We do have 20 seats left at the University Health Network in Toronto where the actual presentations are hosted. We will fill those seats on a first come basis.]

Here are registration details:

The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) presents:

Transforming Care

University Health Network
Room 1EN 429/430
University Health Network, Toronto
 
AND
 
By WEBCAST

Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.  EST

If you would like to participate in-person at the University Health Network (only 20 seats available) Click here to REGISTER (note we can only accept another 20 people at the conference site. First come | first served.)

If you would like to participate directly by webcast Click here to REGISTER

If  you would like your hospital to participate in this event, please contact your hospital's onsite OTN Coordinator. SITE COORDINATORS: Please register your site here

Out of Province: Please contact the Ontario Telemedicine Network at: scheduling@otn.ca to register for the event.  Include the following reference number 9146668

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ACEN 2010 ANNAUL MEETING FACULTY

TRANSFORMING CARE AT THE BEDSIDE: Patricia Rutherford, RN, MS, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

PRESENTATION: Will present IHI’s program: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a national program of RWJF and IHI, that engages leaders at all levels of the organization to: Improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units | Increase the vitality and retention of nurses | Engage and improve the patient’s | family members’ experience of care | Improve the effectiveness of the entire care team

 

BACKGROUND: Manages IHI's programs in

·         Clinical office practice redesign

·         Improving access and flow in specialty practices

·         Optimizing care coordination and transitions in care, and the

·         Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative.

·         Co-investigator for the STate Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations (STAAR) initiative.

·         process improvement, innovation, and idealized design

·         large-scale performance improvement initiatives.

RELEASING TIME TO CARE:  Marlene Smadu, RN, MA, PhD,   Associate Dean College of Nursing,

                        University of Saskatchewan

PRESENTATION: Will discuss Saskatchewan’s initiatives related to The UK-based program is called "Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward". It empowers nurses, and other members of care teams, to look at how their ward is organized and to make changes that allow them to spend more time with patients.

BACKGROUND:

·         Chair CPSI Education and Professional Development Committee

·         Vice Chair, Saskatchewan Health Quality Council

·         Member of the Quality Worklife-Quality Healthcare Collaborative.

·         Focus on health human resources, aboriginal health, health policy and knowledge transfer

WORK REDESIGN:   Patricia O’Connor, RN, MSc(A), CHE, Associate Director of Nursing, MUHC

PRESENTATION: Will present the impact of Work Redesign on the quality of care and the work environments

BACKGROUND: Commonwealth Fund Harkness Associate in Health Policy & Practice Neurosciences Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University

·         Guest faculty member of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s Safer Health Care Now National Falls Prevention Collaborative

·         Fellowship – the EXTRA Program with CHSRF

·         Fellow in the Canadian College of Health Service Executives.

·         Past President of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK BAXTER FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT TO ENABLE THIS INTERNATIONAL WEBCAST. 

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