St. Joseph's Health Centre celebrated our 4th Annual Interprofessional Education Week event!
This was the 4th year for our exciting home-grown event that celebrates SJHC’s culture of interprofessional learning and collaboration and also showcases how diverse groups of people learn with, from and about each other. This collaboration translates into providing exceptional patient care here at St. Joe’s.
We kicked off the 2011 Interprofessional Education Week event with our special IPE insert into all three of our local community newspapers. Your stories went to the homes of more than 150,000 people living in our catchment area. Click here to see a copy of this year’s insert.
We also celebrated with our special IPE Week issue of Connections! Click here to read some of the features that highlighted the great interprofessional education, collaboration and practice that we are doing at St. Joe’s.
On Wednesday we held our annual IPE Skills Fair with a record setting number of booths this year!
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the IPE Skills Fair with a booth, and those who dropped in to see the Fair! Also thank you to our three very special lunch time feature presentations this year:
#1: Falls: Their Impact and a Snapshot of our Prevention Strategies
Information from the Health Centre's Falls Committee was shared regarding the effects of falls on our health care system and on individuals. The discussion also focused on We current SJHC Falls Prevention Strategies, Preventative Equipment, and what everyone can do to help.
Presenters:
Sandra Dickau, Patient Care Manager
Chris Ashdown, Professional Practice Leader (PPL) - Physiotherapy
Neelam Bal, Occupational Therapist
Dr. Edward Gutman, Physician lead for Fall Prevention
#2: Bad Bugs, No Drugs! Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Hospital Setting
This presentation highlighted the challenges regarding rising antimicrobial resistance and its threat to human existence. Antimicrobial Stewardship, one of the most important opportunities to tackle antibiotic resistance was demystified! An interprofessional approach to Stewardship used at SJHC, including pharmacists, doctors and other health care professionals was discussed.
This presentation reviewed the best practices for safe oral feeding of the patient with swallowing problems through role play and discussion with the audience - presented by Speech-Language Pathology, Nursing and a Health Care Aide. Incorrect and correct feeding practices were demonstrated in a role play, and the audience was asked to give their opinions on what they see. The audience was also asked to share difficulties they encounter when feeding for discussion.
Presenters:
Janice Bennett, Tracie Kunitake, Dina Kyriakopoulos - Speech Language Pathologists
Fazeena Khamis - Nursing
Ingrid Johnson - Health Care Aide
We also had a record number of professions participate in our Skills Fairs poster competition this year. Copies of all the posters will be available on our corporate website next week. The 2011 winners are:
Our annual IPE Breakfast Forum drew a record setting attendance this year. Guests were treated to three exciting keynote speakers:
From Right to left, our IPE Week keynotes: Corinne Hart, Sholom Glouberman and Janice Waddell
Janice Waddell, Associate Dean, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University and Corinne Hart, Chair of Ryerson University’s IPE Committee, who spoke about Interprofessional Collaboration.
Sholom Glouberman, philosopher-in-residence at Toronto’s Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, author of My Operation, and President of Patients’ Association of Canada, who talked about the importance of patient-centred care.
Corinne Hart is an Assistant Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing. Her research focuses on theorizing the impacts of power, status and professional closure on interprofessional and collaborative practice and teamwork. Her current research involves using emotion management as a lens to understand how power and status are enacted on an interprofessional team. Corinne’s main teaching responsibilities are in the undergraduate program, where she is the lead teacher for the third year of the Collaborative Program. She is involved in interprofessional education both at Ryerson and in the broader community.
Elizabeth McLaney, Director of Interprofessional Education and Collaboration and Michael Heffer, Director of Pharmacy and Interprofessional Practice closed the Forum with a special presentation celebrating and recognizing some of our IPE & IPP successes over the last year.
From Right to left, our IPE Week keynotes: Corinne Hart, Sholom Glouberman and Janice Waddell