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Because your voice matters.

Health Care Partner Resources

We’ve created a number of resources, tools and supports to help you engage patient partners in a meaningful way. Depending on what you’re looking for, this section provides supports for:

  • Assessing readiness: materials that help your team get ready to engage patients
  • Skill building: resources that build your skills, confidence and comfort in engaging patient partners
  • Preparation: recruitment, preparation and selection strategy resources for engaging patients well
  • Evaluation: providing support and resources to assess the impact of your engagement efforts and share them with others

All resources are created with input from patient and/or health care partners.

We encourage you to take a look at the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council website. “What Matters to You” and other resources are there to support improving the quality of health care in BC.

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Building skills

  1. Engagement Planning Canvas
    • Editable Templates
    • Forms
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Leading Great Meetings
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  3. Zoom Instructions
    • Tips & Checklists

Engaging patient partners

  1. Check-In Checklist
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Engagement Planning Canvas
    • Editable Templates
    • Forms
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  3. Engagement Planning Template
    • Editable Templates
    • Forms
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  4. Engagement Request Form – Sample
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  5. Leading Great Meetings
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  6. Selecting a Patient Partner
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  7. Zoom Instructions
    • Tips & Checklists

Getting started with PVN

  1. Engagement Planning Canvas
    • Editable Templates
    • Forms
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Engagement Planning Template
    • Editable Templates
    • Forms
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  3. Engagement Request Form – Sample
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  4. Glossary
    • Glossary & FAQs
  5. Selecting a Patient Partner
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists

Participating in opportunities

  1. Check-In Checklist
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Glossary
    • Glossary & FAQs
  3. Leading Great Meetings
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists

Promoting your opportunity

Telling people about PVN

From Our Community

Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

Karla Warkotsch

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.