Webinar

June 6 is International "What Matters to You?" Day! Join us on this webinar with our international partners to celebrate successful conversations and partnerships around the world!

The nomination period is now open for the 2020 Quality Awards! Since 2009, the awards have celebrated inspiring projects and individuals that improved health care in BC. We can’t wait to learn about the people and projects you nominate, and we want to help you make your submissions the best they can be. Tune into this webinar for tips from our Quality Awards team on choosing the right award category, providing evidence that will make your nominee stand out, and more!

Uncomfortable, uncertain or curious to learn more? If this describes how you or a coworker feel when planning to engage patients and families who are or may be BC First Nations, this webinar will provide you valuable information! Join us in debunking the discomfort and gain awareness around Cultural Safety & Humility. Send us your questions, bring your uncertainty and most importantly, bring your incredibly positive intentions to support cultural safety & humility in patient engagement!

Successfully implemented research is completely contingent on recruitment of ample participants that fit inclusion criteria. Donna Thomson, parent and author and Dr. Lach, Associate Professor at McGill University, will discuss challenges associated with recruiting participants from parent and researcher perspectives, and they will identify strategies that increase likelihood of participation. Understanding the dialectic between parent motivation for participation in research and what researchers need for a successful study will shed light on pragmatic approaches that complement these perspectives.

Older adult residents in a Long-term and Assisted Living care facility in northern British Columbia partnered with researchers from the University of Northern British Columbia and representatives of the Northern Health Authority to inform development and planning of new gardening and horticulture program focused on promotion of the natural environment in their facility.

In this session we will explore how research teams and patient-partners can best facilitate a reciprocal relationship that ultimately enhances research progress. Specifically, what are the potential drivers of a successful reciprocal relationship and how can this be realized in patient-oriented research projects?

In this session, we will introduce some of the key historical, contextual, and ethical considerations when considering research involving First Nation peoples and populations; explore the importance of integrating both Indigenous and Western knowledge in research approaches; discuss the First Nation principles of ownership, control, access, possession (OCAP®); and share perspectives on patient-oriented research as Indigenous researchers and community members.

As part of the Patient Engagement Learning Series, the second webinar in the series will provide an overview of the work being done in primary care, specifically with the launch of Primary Care Networks in communities throughout the province.

Strategies to manage arthritis while in the workplace Arthritis can pose significant challenges to working life due to pain and fatigue. But most people with arthritis want to work. At this Arthritis Talks symposium you will learn: Your rights, accommodations employers must make and employment laws The dos and don’ts of medical cannabis while working […]