Interior Health Critical Care Network – Patient and Family Partner

Interior Health’s Critical Care Network is responsible for leading, coordinating, monitoring, evaluating and improving the quality and promoting consistency, sustainability and standardization of all critical care services within the geographic boundaries of Interior Health. The network invites patient and family partners to meet regularly with representatives from Interior Health to promote and advance patient and family centered care and improve the quality of critical care services by sharing experiences, ideas and perspectives.

The request of the patient and family partner would be to attend Critical Care Network Council Meetings (3x per year, approx 1 hour) and to meet regularly with a Critical Care Network representative (monthly, approx 1 hour). All meetings are virtual.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Collaborate on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

• Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
• Specific health care experiences [details below]
• Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
• Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
• An interest in improving health care services
• The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
• Has been or has a family member who has been a patient admitted to an ICU within Interior Health

Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Tracy Canuel Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Network | Interior Health (778) 257-1364 Tracy.Canuel@interiorhealth.ca