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Patient Partner, ICU Ventilator Liberation Initiative – Fraser Health

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Commitment: Short-term

Connection method: Hybrid

Open to Fraser – Vancouver Coastal, Patient partners across BC

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To engage patient and family partners to help us improve extubation success in the ICU.

The initiative aims to reduce extubation failure rates, shorten ICU stays, and improve overall patient and family satisfaction with care.

Patient/family partners will provide insights on patient and family experiences related to extubation and their experience with critical care.

They will provide feedback and help evaluate the impact of the practice change on patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Meetings and engagement sessions will be held virtually and/or in person (flexible to accommodate patient partners) at times convenient for participants, with options for feedback.

Honoraria available to compensate patient/family partner’s time commitment.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Consult 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
  • Looking for someone with experience as a patient, or a family member of a patient, who has received mechanical ventilation and extubation in the ICU. Healthcare knowledge or previous experience with healthcare advisory committees or engagement preferred but not required. Honoraria available to compensate your time.

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

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Jaimie Trodden
Clinical Resource Therapist, Respiratory Therapy | Fraser Health
(613) 769-0958
jaimie.trodden@fraserhealth.ca

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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.