Here you will find the engagement opportunities that are currently open.
To RSVP for opportunities, and to receive newsletters that will notify you of new ones, sign up as a patient partner with the Patient Voices Network. For tips on how to fill up the RSVP forms, make sure to read this brief list.
If you have received information about an opportunity not listed below, please contact pvn@bcpsqc.ca, 604.668.8240 or 1.877.282.1919.
In addition to the engagement opportunities below that are offered by our health care partners, we list external engagement opportunities administered and supported by other organizations that are also looking for deeply committed patient partners to improve BC’s health system.
Provincial OpportunitiesConference Speaker, Demystifying Authentic Patient Engagement: Principles and Strategies (April 2018)
Authentic patient engagement principles and strategies are invaluable to ensuring opportunities value time and contributions of patients and health care partners alike. We are submitting a proposal to share our take on authentic patient engagement at the Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference 2018. If you are passionate about sharing your experiences with a diverse range of international stakeholders, read on!
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 18, 2017
Providence Health Care Patient/Resident Hand Cleaning Consultation
Preventing health care acquired infections is highly reliant on hand hygiene. Typically, the emphasis has been on hand cleaning by health care workers; we are interested in learning how hand cleaning was important to you and your family during your care experience in a hospital or a residential care facility.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 21, 2017
Integrated Primary Care Continuing Professional Development Advisory Group
The BC health sector is moving forward with primary health care reform! UBC Health needs your help as it works to understand the skills and training each profession needs in order to provide person-centred primary care.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 23, 2017
Focus Group or Interview Participants, Review of Treatment Options for Parkinson’s Disease
Ever wonder how decisions are made about the effectiveness of treatment options and wish you could influence the decision-making process? Share your experience with Parkinson’s Disease to assist a team at UBC to ensure patient perspectives are included in a review of advanced stage therapies and treatments for Parkinson’s Disease.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 24, 2017
Webinar Participant, Troubleshooting Webex
Are you nervous about attending a meeting online? Have you avoided using Webex as a meeting tool? Come and participate in this patient partner focused opportunity to learn how to use Webex and give feedback about the process.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 25, 2017
Patient Speaker Panel: Connect and Communicate to Impact Patient Outcomes, BC Chiropractic Association
Are you someone who has benefited from chiropractic care? Can your experience with care help provide a teachable moment for chiropractors? Help BC chiropractors understand how ‘soft skills’ (personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people) are fundamental to positive patient experience and outcomes.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 25, 2017
Interview Participants, Review of Routine Testing Before Surgery
Are you interested in sharing your experiences of testing before surgery? Your input can help shape provincial government policy regarding whether cardiac screening is routinely required before surgery and improve the care received by other patients.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 31, 2017
Committee Member, Rural Surgical and Maternity Care Advisory Committee
Help sustain surgical and maternity services in rural communities by becoming a member of our rural surgical and obstetrical networks advisory committee!
Open to: Patient partners in rural communities across the province
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Deadline: September 6, 2017
Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland RegionAddressing Malnutrition in Hospital: Implementation of a Nutrition Pathway for Acute Care
Do you want to help patients eat better in hospital? Share your experience to help implement an approach to nutrition care that meets patients’ needs!
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
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Deadline: August 15, 2017
Patient Partner, Assisted Living Quality of Life Working Group
According to recent reports, BC is home to about 678,000 people 65 and over. By 2020, that number is expected to grow to 984,000, and by 2036 there will be nearly 1.5 million older adults in BC. With the population of older adults increasing, the number of people choosing assisted living will continue to grow. In order to understand the unique challenges of promoting assisted living residents’ quality of life and engagement, a team of researchers are looking for patient partners to contribute their insight as they develop a study of attitudes, beliefs and behaviour towards quality of life.
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
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Deadline: August 17, 2017
Quality Academy and Clinician Quality Academy Panel Sessions
Have you previously participated in health care improvements? Would you like to share your ‘patient partner’ insights with a cohort of health care providers learning about quality improvement? We’d love to learn from you!
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland
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Deadline: August 18, 2017
Committee Member, Fraser Health Regional Cancer Care Council
Each day across British Columbia, patients and families are touched by cancer. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, on average, 565 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer every day. The Fraser Health Regional Cancer Care Council provides a forum for discussions, planning and decision-making related to cancer care services between BC Cancer Agency and Regional Health Authorities. They are seeking two patient partners to join them in improving care services across the region.
Open to: Patient partners in the Fraser Health region.
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Deadline: August 18, 2017
Member, Abbotsford/Mission Health Services Network
As many of you know, the need for smooth transitions between health care services is an important component of quality care. The Abbotsford/Mission Health Services Network meets to discuss how these transitions can improve for patients and families, leading to better health care and patient experience. If you have experience navigating the system from one sector to another (e.g. residential care or assisted living), your perspective and voice is needed in this network.
Open to: Patient partners in Abbotsford/Mission communities
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Deadline: August 19, 2017
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Working Group
Have you or a loved one had surgery? Wondered about the protocols that affect recovery, and want to participate in making decisions and developing strategies to improve outcomes for surgical patients? This opportunity is for you!
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
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Deadline: August 21, 2017
Urinary Tract Infection Prevention Working Group
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) negatively alter patient care outcomes and increases length of stay. Work with us to decrease UTIs for all patients admitted across Providence Health Care!
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
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Deadline: August 21, 2017
Advisory Committee Member, Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services Prescription Review
The College of Pharmacists is wondering about public interest in expanding current pharmacy services to include prescribing medications. In order to investigate this further, the Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services is looking for two patient partners to provide insight into the public’s perspective on prescribing done by pharmacists.
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
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Deadline: August 29, 2017
Patient Partner, Physician Quality Improvement Committee
Integrating the patients’ voice, alongside physicians, in health care quality improvement work takes a lot of behind the scenes work to engage physicians and build capacity in the areas of quality improvement, leadership, project management and change management. The Physician Quality Improvement Committee provides a unique platform for patients to provide feedback and work alongside physician champions throughout Fraser Health to improve health care services.
Open to: Patient partners in Fraser Health communities
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Deadline: August 30, 2017
Interior RegionInterview Consultation, Enhancing Communication in the Intensive Care Unit by Identifying an Appropriate Whiteboard Template
Let’s improve communication between staff, patients, and family members within an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)! Royal Inland Hospital is working on an initiative to utilize bedside whiteboards in the ICU as a communication tool and your input is needed.
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior Health region
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Deadline: August 17, 2017
Survey, Evaluation of the Kelowna Community Health Services Centre
Patients will have an opportunity to inform improvements at the Kelowna Community Health Services Centre. We need your help to make it as easy as possible! Please RSVP to share your feedback on the proposed surveys.
Open to: Patient partners across Interior Health
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Deadline: August 23, 2017
Sharing of Patient Pathway: Children and Youth – Complex Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges
Are you interested in sharing your experiences in accessing services for youth with complex mental health challenges that may or may not include challenges with substance use? Your input can help future youth and family members navigate the services they require and improve the patient experience in your community.
Open to: Patient partners in and around the city of Kamloops
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Deadline: August 23, 2017
Participant, Interior Health Repatriation Collaborative Launch and Subsequent Learning Sessions
Sometimes a patient’s care needs are better met in a hospital outside of their home community. Ultimately repatriation is about ensuring patients are returning to their home community after receiving these specialized services in a proactive streamlined way that supports their health and wellbeing along the continuum of care. See details below to find out how you can impact this important work!
Open to: Patient partners in rural Interior region communities
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Deadline: August 31, 2017
Patient Engagement in Research Committee of the BC SUPPORT Unit Interior Centre
Does patient engagement in research interest you? Read more about this exciting opportunity!
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior region
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Deadline: September 7, 2017
Vancouver Island RegionParticipants, Patient Journey Mapping – In-Patient Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy care has changed dramatically in recent years and so must our approach! If you or someone you care for has been admitted to the Royal Jubilee Hospital’s 8South for chemotherapy, then Island Health and the BC Cancer Agency need your expertise to improve the patient experience of care.
Open to: Patient partners in the Island Health region
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Deadline: August 9, 2017
Member, Supportive Cardiology & Palliative Care Working Group
If you or a family member have experience with late-stage cardiac disease or heart failure, we’d like to include you in a working group tasked with development of new model of care that will provide earlier access to supportive palliative care and improve quality of life.
Open to: Patient partners in the Greater Victoria area
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Deadline: September 5, 2017
Member, Community Health and Care Directors Committee
A new integrated, connected community health and care model is coming to your community and you are invited to participate in the Island Health committee that will oversee implementation of this improved approach!
Open to: Patient partners in Island Health Region
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Deadline: September 5, 2017
Patient Representatives, Transition from Hospital to Community Working Group
We’d like to include you in a working group committed to improving the experience of patients and families as they return home after a hospital stay or emergency department visit. If you or someone you care for has required support after returning home to the Saanich Peninsula or relied on services offered through their Community Health Services team, please read on!
Open to: Patient partners living in or receiving health services in the Saanich Peninsula area
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Deadline: September 6, 2017
Member, Infection Prevention and Control Regional Working Group
Island Health’s Infection Prevention and Control Program would like to include patients as active members of their team working to improve the health and safety of patients, families and staff. If you are naturally curious, and have ideas to share about how to partner with patients and the public to reduce infections, this opportunity could be a great fit for you!
Open to: Patient partners in the Island Health region
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Deadline: September 10, 2017