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Speaker, Sharing Lived Health Care Experience for Student Learning, College of New Caledonia, Medical Laboratory Technology Program

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Deadline: Apply by

Commitment: Short-term

Open to Northern Region

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The Medical Laboratory Technology program at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George is looking to engage patients to have them share their lived experience in accessing health care to bring a patient perspective to the classroom and support student learning.
Ideally, we are looking for a patient partner to be a guest speaker to share their experiences on their patient journey, looping in professional conduct and performance that can enhance or hinder a patient’s experience, outcome or trust in a health care system.

Would also consider alternate ways to deliver you message to students in order to teach them through the eye of the patient.

Although many patients may not recognize the role of that lab in their journey, we promise we are there, you may have noticed us collect your blood or run an ECG, but behind the scenes we do all the lab testing from routine chemistry results like glucose levels and electrolytes to cross matching your blood for transfusion or determining the organism causing your infection and determining the appropriate antibiotics.
Related to the lab directly or not, any health care story can give beneficial perspective to the students.

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Level of Engagement

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

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Comfort with public speaking
  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • An interest in improving health care services
  • Significant lived experience accessing health or social services Technology/internet is helpful to connect over distance in not local to the area
Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Larissa Nygaard Instructor, Medical Laboratory Technology Science | College of New Caledonia (250) 562-2131 nygaardl1@cnc.bc.ca

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