Here are 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.
Learn more about what it’s like to be involved in PVN, in the words of a patient partner.
Provincial OpportunitiesMember, Provincial Nursing Network, Ministry of Health
The Provincial Nursing Network is looking to include the patient voice to help advise and inform on various matters related to nursing, such as optimizing scope of practice and advancing nursing practices. Do you have a mind for strategy and a keen interest in advancing the nursing profession? If so, we want to hear from you!
Open to: Patient partners from across the province
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Deadline: Open until filled
Member, Nursing Education Planning Council (NEPC), Ministry of Health
If you are a system level and innovative thinker with an interest in advancing nursing education in BC, your voice is needed! Join this council and contribute to high-level decision-focused discussions on the development of nursing education, by ensuring the group understands and considers the perspectives of patients, families, and communities.
Open to: Patient partners from across the province
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Deadline: Open until filled
Participant, Surgical Priority Setting Process Consultation, Ministry of Health
Do you have 90 minutes free over the lunch hour on Friday September 28? Your participation is needed in a teleconference consultation for the Ministry of Health to inform a new approach for prioritizing surgical procedures in the province. If you or a loved one has experienced a wait time for surgery, the Ministry wants to learn from your opinions and reflections.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: September 24, 2018
Reviewer, Patient Safety Disclosure Survey
The Provincial Health Service Authority would like your help in reviewing a patient survey that is designed to ask patients what matters most when health care providers disclose a patient safety event to the public.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: September 24, 2018
Participant, Patient Engagement Interviews with Nursing Students
What do you think contributes to positive patient engagement? Here is your opportunity to share your ideas with nursing students from both Selkirk College and the College of the Rockies.
Open to: Patient partners from across the province
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Deadline: October 3, 2018
Member, Provincial Critical Care Working Group
Do you have a mind for strategy with a keen interest for improving accessibility, safety, and effectiveness of care for critically ill patients across the province? Join this working group to help improve quality of care for these patients.
Open to: Patient partners across BC
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Deadline: October 15, 2018
Interviewee, Focus Group on Health Technology for Cryptogenic Stroke Patients
Some strokes happen to people for unknown reasons; this is sometimes called cryptogenic stroke. The University of British Columbia is interested in interviewing 20 cryptogenic stroke patients that have used an implantable cardiac monitor or holter monitor for their recovery to better understand their experiences.
Open to: Patient partners from across the province
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Deadline: November 15, 2018
Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland RegionPatient Advisor and Speaker, Early Serious Illness Conversations Project
Have you had a family member with a serious illness admitted to the hospital? Did the hospital care providers explore goals, fears, priorities, acceptable trade-offs, and family understanding of the illness? Help our research project to improve early engagement in serious illness conversations at St. Paul’s Hospital, so that patients’ voices are heard and they’re treated how they want to be treated.
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: September 26, 2018
Advisor, Research on Reporting Workplace Violence in Acute Psychiatry
Workplace safety for health care providers in acute mental health settings is a priority for Providence Health Care. If you are interested in working with researchers to improve the ways nurses report workplace violence events, this may be the opportunity for you.
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: September 26, 2018
Member, Hospital Pharmacist Awareness Campaign Committee
Canadian Hospital Pharmacists of BC is working to spread awareness and understanding to the general public about the roles of pharmacy teams in hospital settings. We are looking for patient volunteers to join our committee meetings in the Vancouver area. Help us spread the word on how pharmacy teams can help improve patient care and outcomes.
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: September 27, 2018
Member, Royal Columbian Hospital Safety Starts with Me Focus Group
Improving the quality of a patient’s experience, while in hospital after surgery, includes being able to bathe and walk. How does a care team support patients to be more confident and motivated to take the lead in making this happen? The Quality Improvement Team at Royal Columbian Hospital are seeking five patient partners to provide input into answering this important question, and others through a focus group in October.
Open to: Patient partners in Fraser Health communities
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Deadline: September 29, 2018
Member, Primary and Community Care Policy Implementation Committee
With the introduction of primary care networks across the province, the Ministry of Health is forming a new policy implementation committee to oversee the various aspects of getting these networks started around the province. If you have a passion for primary care and experience participating in committees, this opportunity could be for you!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley and South Vancouver Island (more…)
Deadline: October 1, 2018
Member, Interprofessional Mental Health Substance Use Program Advisory Group
St. Paul’s Hospital envisions a future of an improved Mental Health and Addictions model of care. You are invited to join an interactive advisory group with program staff to create a plan to pilot this future model of care!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: October 5, 2018
Member, “Red and Green Bed Days” Program Working Group
Help St. Paul’s Hospital’s Cardiovascular Surgical Ward adapt an award-winning care improvement initiative to assist in the identification of wasted time in a patient’s journey. If you or a loved one has had cardiovascular surgery, this could the working group for you!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: October 5, 2018
Patient Speaker, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Education Sessions
We’re looking for patient partners who have an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator to help develop and speak at education sessions for patients and their families who have been referred or recommended to have this defibrillator implanted. Help us provide support and answer questions so that patients have a better understanding and informed consent before implantation!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: October 5, 2018
Member, St. Paul’s Hospital Medicine Program Quality & Safety Committee
Have you or a family member recently received follow-up care in St. Paul’s Hospital’s Medicine Program? Join this committee that works on safety and quality improvement of outpatient care at St. Paul’s Hospital!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley
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Deadline: October 8, 2018
Committee Member, Measurement System for Physician Quality Improvement Surgical Group
Do you have an interest in measurement and quality improvement? The Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC are developing a set of surgical care indicators used to measure physician quality improvement over time and would like to collaborate with you on the selection of those indicators.
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland
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Deadline: October 12, 2018
Interior RegionMember, Patient & Family Advisory Council for Royal Inland Hospital Intensive Care Unit
Integrating the patient and family voice into patient experience improvements of intensive care services in Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is a priority for all involved in this work. Lend your voice and partner with the team at RIH as part of their Intensive Care Unit Patient and Family Advisory Council.
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior region
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Deadline: Open until filled
Participant, Patient Reference Group, Central Interior Rural area
Do you have an interest in participating in innovative health care redesign projects and partnering with health care leaders? We are looking for seven patient partners to support work with respect to our health services in the Central Interior Rural Service area.
Open to: Patient partners from the Cariboo Chilcotin area
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Deadline: Open until filled
Patient Speaker, Infection Prevention and Control Education Day
The BC chapter of Infection Prevention and Control Canada is holding their annual conference in Kelowna and would like a patient partner to speak about their own or a family member’s experience with infection.
Open to: Patient partners in Kelowna and the surrounding area
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Deadline: September 22, 2018
Interviewee, Rae Fawcett Breast Health Clinic Evaluation
Join us in making the Rae Fawcett Breast Health Clinic the best it can be! We would like to interview anyone who has been through the new Royal Inland Hospital breast health clinic to learn how we can best meet patient and family needs going forward.
Open to: Patient partners who have accessed the Rae Fawcett Breast Health Clinic at Royal Inland Hospital
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Deadline: September 25, 2018
Participant, Home Health Services Intake Improvement Workshop
Interior Health is leading a five-day workshop to review their centralized intake process. They are hoping to include a patient partner to provide feedback to improve their turn-around time and communication during the process.
Open to: Patient partners from Penticton or Summerland
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Deadline: October 7, 2018
Vancouver Island RegionMember, Trauma Quality Structure Committees
Trauma, and the continuum of care for those involved in trauma, is broad: it includes injury and violence prevention; sexual assault services; trauma injury care activities; and rehabilitation. Island Health is redesigning its Trauma Program governance structure and seeks the patient voice to ensure that the system is designed in a way that meets the needs of patients, families and communities. If you have personal or family experience with trauma care, read on to see if this is the right fit for you!
Open to: Patient partners from across the Island Health region
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Deadline: Open until filled
Member, Wayfinding Review Work Group
Island Health is reviewing the signage in the new Comox Valley Hospital Emergency Department. We are looking for volunteers to do a walk-through and offer feedback on how our wayfinding signage is working.
Open to: Patient partners from Comox Valley and area
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Deadline: September 17, 2018
Member, Health Authority Medical Quality Committee
If you are a thoughtful communicator who is willing to use your experience to contribute to high-level, decision-focused discussions on quality improvement, this is for you! Patient partners are needed to join senior leaders as members of Island Health’s Medical Quality Committee, which works to identify the best way to deliver care using current evidence, address gaps in care & support implementation of improvement to care.
Open to: Patient partners across the Island Health region
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Deadline: September 24, 2018
Member, Island Health Patient Advisory Council
Island Health is seeking patients and family members who would like to join the Island Health Patient Advisory Council. As a member of the council, you can share your experiences and ideas, and provide recommendations to help shape improvements to patient experience and care delivery!
Open to: Patient partners across the Island Health region
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Deadline: September 28, 2018
Member, Primary and Community Care Policy Implementation Committee
With the introduction of primary care networks across the province, the Ministry of Health is forming a new policy implementation committee to oversee the various aspects of getting these networks started around the province. If you have a passion for primary care and experience participating in committees, this opportunity could be for you!
Open to: Patient partners in Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley and South Vancouver Island (more…)
Deadline: October 1, 2018
Attendee, Educational Workshop — Design Thinking: A Human-Centred Approach to Health Care Improvement
If you want to take your solutions and ideas to new heights, join us at Design Thinking: A Human-Centred Approach to Health Care Improvement! We will curate recent knowledge around innovation and design thinking, and provide the opportunity to apply design thinking methodology to real-life health care challenges. This interactive session will help you do things differently!
Open to: Patient partners from the Vancouver Island region
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Deadline: October 5, 2018