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Member, PREVIEW-ED© Advisory Committee

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Open to Fraser – Vancouver Coastal, Patient partners in Fraser Health communities

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Detecting early health decline in residential care residents plays a critical role in interventions that improve residents quality of life. Fraser Health has implemented a one-page tool, PREVIEW-ED©, that only takes 8-15 seconds to administer as part of regular health care duties and is seeking two patient partners to join their advisory committee. This committee aims to increase and monitor the use of the new tool across all residential care sites in Fraser Health.

Open to: Patient partners in Fraser Health communities

Lead Organization or Department

Fraser Health, Residential Care

Aim

Patient partners will provide advice on PREVIEW-ED© including sustainability, performance, outcomes and communication, and how that impacts patients and families.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of collaborate on the spectrum of engagement. The promise to you is that the research partner will work together with you to formulate solutions and incorporate your advice and recommendations into the decisions to the maximum extent possible.

Eligibility

Patient partners, including care givers or family members, who have experience with residential care. If you have a strong interest in this work but have not yet completed a PVN orientation and Volunteer Agreement, are unsure if your experience is a good fit or feel another format of engagement would work better with your availability, please contact the engagement leader directly.

Logistics

  • Vacancies: 2
  • Commitment: Initially meetings will be monthly with the plan to change to quarterly or at the call of the Chair. One meeting a year will be in person.
  • Time/date: To be confirmed once patient partners are confirmed
  • Location: Via telephone and Central City, Surrey

Reimbursement

Preapproved expenses related to travel to in person meetings will be reimbursed according to the Fraser Health Travel policy (including mileage, parking, tolls and/or public transit).

Background

PREVIEW-ED© is an innovative screening tool, developed by Marilyn El Bestawi. It helps staff in residential care (RC) detect early health decline among residents related to four conditions: pneumonia, urinary tract infections, dehydration and congestive heart failure. The tool measures the signs, symptoms and severity of nine indicators using a simple scale that allows users to score each indicator and generate an aggregate score to quantify the change. The one-page tool takes between 8-15 seconds to administer by personal support workers or care aides as part of their regular duties. Care aides and personal support workers comprise more than 70 percent of the staffing in RC homes, provide the majority of the direct care and are ideally positioned to notice the subtle changes in the health status of a resident. If the resident’s condition is normal for them, the tool score is zero. If the score is greater than zero, a registered staff member is informed and intervenes as needed, guided by an escalation path included with the tool.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Jami Brown
Engagement Leader, Patient and Public Engagement | Fraser Valley
604.510.0449
jbrown@bcpsqc.ca

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Shana Ooms

Executive Director of Primary Care Strategy, Policy and Quality — BC Ministry of Health

Shana Ooms

Where those of us in the room may have debated policy or wording, patient voices made sure patients were top of mind. And as a result, significant improvements were made to simplify something that was otherwise complex. Patient voices at the table bring us back to reality in terms of what we are trying to achieve.