IP Education Week
Maureen Ford stops to look at the Child Life Services display at our Interprofessional Skills Fair.
St. Joseph's Health Centre celebrated our 2nd Annual Interprofessional Education Week event from October 19 to 23.
This week celebrates SJHC's culture of interprofessional learning and collaboration and also showcases how diverse groups of people learning with, from and about each other translates into providing exceptional patient care. Click here to view the newly expanded Education section of our website.
This year, we kicked off this exciting week with an insert into our local community newspapers, sharing with our community members the many different roles that are needed to deliver patient care and how we foster teamwork and collaboration among all our health care professionals. By learning together as teams, we shape the way we practice as teams. Different disciplines are encouraged to break down barriers by sharing their knowledge and expertise with each other so that we can effectively “Put Our Patients First”.
Click here to read our newspaper insert
Click here to read Our Special Issue of Connections Part 1 and Part 2
On Monday October 19th we hosted our IPE Week Breakfast Forum
Members of the Health Centre's Leadership Team and representatives from various community partners, as well as our partners in education, were invited to hear from a number of speakers on the important work being done at the Health Centre and in the health care field to move interprofessional practice and collaboration forward.
Carolyn Baker, President and CEO at St. Joseph's, addressed the crowd and talked about the importance of collaboration and how we provide an environment for our health care providers to acquire new knowledge in order to improve the health of the communities we serve. Carolyn also acknowledged St. Joe's leadership in the area of interprofessional practice and collaboration and the tremendous work that St. Joe's has done over the last four years.
Dr. Catherine Whiteside, Dean, University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Catherine Whiteside, Dean of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, provided her presentation entitled, Academic Responsibility is Our Social Responsibility, and spoke about the role the University of Toronto plays in working with hospitals and other partners to support interprofessional practice and collaboration at the academic level.
Vicki LeBlanc, Director, Network of Excellence in Simulation for Clinical Teaching & Learning.
Vicki LeBlanc, Director, Network of Excellence in Simulation for Clinical Teaching and Learning (NESCTL) shared information around the work that this organization is doing to bring health care providers together to advance interprofessional clinical education through simulated learning – in efforts in improve patient safety, provide more effective and efficient patient care and improved health outcomes – all key priorities here at St. Joe's.
Elizabeth McLaney, Manager, Interprofessional Education, shares St. Joe's successes from the last year.
Elizabeth McLaney, Manager of Interprofessional Education at St. Joseph's, finished the formal speaking portion of the event by sharing examples of the many ways St. Joe's has excelled in the field of interprofessional practice, highlighting our successes and the future direction of interprofessional practice at St. Joe's.
In the spirit of our dedication to learning, the event wrapped up with a presentation of the TD Learning is for Life Scholarships, presented by Mark Vimr, Executive Vice President, Clinical and Professional Programs & Services, Chief Nursing Executive and Chief of Interprofessional Practice. This year, 21 recipients at St. Joe's will benefit from life-long learning initiatives, generously supported by TD Bank Financial Group. Perry Manolis, Branch Manager, TD Canada Trust - City Place Branch, was also on hand to congratulate this year's recipients.
 The 2009 TD Learning is for Life Scholarship recipients are joined by Mark Vimr, Perry Manolis, Carolyn Baker & Dr. Catherine Whiteside. |
On Wednesday October 21 we hosted our IP Skills Fair
Interprofessional collaboration is key to providing patient care at St. Joseph's. Our commitment to educate the next generation of health care professionals includes advancing interprofessional education, developing our clinical teachers and strengthening our clinical teaching programs. This is key to achieving our Vision of being Canada's Best Community Teaching Hospital.
Our IP Skills Fair is a home-grown event where our health care professionals meet to learn ‘with, from and about each other' through interactive displays and booths. This year we had over 50 booths representing more than 25 disciplines from across the Health Centre. St. Joseph's also welcomed high school students from the Toronto Catholic District School Board to our Skills Fair.
Dr. Lloyd Smith and Dayle Allen-Ackley demonstrate minimally invasive surgery technology used in our operating room.
These students were paired up with our interprofessional college and university students to learn more about the many different careers available in health care. Our guests reported that they learned a lot about the many different clinical professions within the hospital and gained new understanding of the importance of support areas such as Security Services, Research, Clinical Informatics and HR.
We would like to thank the presenters of our two special lunch time feature presentations:
Dr. Lloyd Smith, Chief of Surgery and Dayle Allen-Ackley RN, Education Co-ordinator, Operating Room, PACU, Cystoscopy who conducted an interactive demonstration of minimally invasive surgery techniques in the surgical suites using real-life technology. This gave the audience members an understanding of the importance of team function as well as the complexity of the procedures themselves.
Danielle Miller, left, and Helen Papakyriacou, showcase communications devices used by patient's that have difficulty speaking.
Helen Papakyriacou, Speech-Language Pathologist, St. Joseph's Health Centre and Danielle Miller, DynaVox who demonstrated communication devices controlled by the eye gaze or by finger tapping, which assists people who have insufficient ability to speak as a result of a stroke and other neurological conditions such as A.L.S or Parkinson's Disease.
A new component this year to the displays was the Access and Flow poster contest – departments participating in the Skills Fair were asked to create a poster that explained how their particular area/role contributed to enhancing patient access and flow throughout the Health Centre. Congratulations to the Access and Flow Poster winners:
1st place – Occupational Therapy
2nd place – Respiratory Therapy
3rd place – Outpatient Pharmacy
More Photos from our Interprofessional Skills Fair
 Physiotherapy department information display at the Skills Fair. |
 Maureen Savoie provides a quick tutorial on using the Health Centre's newly implemented PCA pumps. |
 Jennifer Comello talks to students on how to properly insert breathing tubes. |
 Dayle Allen-Ackley and Jeff Dionne get hands on at the Respiratory Therapy display. |
IPE Leaders' Lunch
Interprofessional education leaders from each of the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network hospitals, as well as from the University of Toronto Centre for IPE, were invited to view the Skills Fair. Following the Skills Fair, these leaders attended a celebratory luncheon, and met to discuss strategies and progress updates regarding interprofessional education for employees and students at each site.
Article Accepted into the Journal of Interprofessional Care
St. Joseph's is also proud to announce that the organization will have an article appear in the short reports section of the Journal of Interprofessional Care. The article, written by Elizabeth McLaney, Lynne Strathern, Dayle Allen-Ackley and Stacey Johnson reports on the conceptualization, implementation and outcomes for the Documentation Blitz (the story of Mrs. D. Q. Mentation) education session that was run on site last January. The presage-process-product (3P) model (Reeves & Freeth 2006; Freeth & Reeves, 2004) is used as a framework to analyze and discuss the event from a systems perspective, including factors in its development, delivery, outcomes and key enablers of success. Some of the unique findings discussed which supported the event include: partnership with Patient Safety & Enterprise Risk Management to determine 'real time' relevant content, partnership with Corporate Communication & Public Affairs Services to market the event to a broad interprofessional audience, and the use of adult learning and team teaching approaches to highlight collaboration between professions.
Student Lunch & Learn Ends off IPE Week on October 23
St. Joseph's hosted a Student Lunch & Learn session for 20 students representing 10 different professions including: Clinical Nutrition, Medical Lab Sciences, Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Respiratory Therapy, Social Work, Ultrasound, X-Ray/Radiology. The event included three engaging and interactive games/activities: ‘The Electronic Maze', a communication exercise where participants worked together to find a clear pathway, ‘The Dream Catcher' where participants explored both unique and shared aspects of their professional roles, and ‘The IP Quiz'- a game which looked at unique aspects of professional roles and scopes of practice, the Regulated Health Professions Act and at delegated and controlled acts.
The Lunch & Learn also involved collaborating with U of T's Centre for IPE as part of a pilot test part of the new IPE curriculum.
Thank you to everyone at St. Joseph's as well as our education partners for making our 2nd annual IPE Week such a success. We look forward to our 2010 IPE Week celebrations!
Page last updated: November 05, 2009