Patient Partner Orientation Session – Webinar

Welcome to the Patient Voices Network! After signing up as a patient partner, everyone must complete an orientation in order to participate in engagement opportunities. This orientation will cover everything you need to know to be a patient partner, as well as answer any questions you may have. Please register below if you can attend […]

September 13, 2018

As you may have heard, we are looking for four patient partner and two health care partner representatives to fill vacancies on PVN’s Oversight and Advisory Committee. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the inner workings of the Network. Share your voice at the table with other patient and health care partners as […]

Patient Partner Orientation Session – Provincial (Webinar)

Welcome to the Patient Voices Network! Everyone must complete an orientation in order to participate in engagement opportunities. This online orientation will cover everything you need to know to be a member, as well as answer any questions you may have. Click here to register! Registered attendees will be sent instructions for joining the orientation […]

Patient Partner Orientation Session – Provincial (Webinar)

Health Care Partner Perspective: Bringing Patient Voices into Health Technology

August 15, 2018

Health technology is a hot topic, particularly when it comes to patient engagement! We recently had the opportunity to connect with Selva Bayat from the Health Technology Assessment team to discuss how new incoming technologies are adopted within BC and what part patient engagement plays in their provincial expansion. The team has just released an […]

Patient Partner Orientation Session – Provincial (Webinar)

Early Onset Heart Disease: What’s In Your Genes?

Why are between 500-1,000 people in BC diagnosed with premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) every year? And why are their close relatives up to 10 times more likely to develop atherosclerotic CVD? These are questions the public forum on the Study to Avoid Cardiovascular Events in British Columbia (SAVE BC) research program seeks to answer. Tara Sedlack, the […]

Patient Partner Orientation Session – Provincial (Webinar)

Free Course: Partners in Research

Interested in learning about patient-oriented research?

The Knowledge Translation Program at St. Michael’s Hospital will be offering an online course called Partners in Research (PiR). This online course will take place in April 2018 and consist of four live web-based sessions. It is designed for patients, families/caregivers and health care researchers. The PiR course will focus on how patients, families, and researchers can work together to improve health research and health care.

Pinwheel Education Series: Eating Disorders & Substance Use

The Pinwheel Series is a group of free educational events open to anyone in BC. The aim is to provide learning opportunities on key mental health and substance use topics, and host a forum where people can engage in dialogue with experts and persons with lived experience.

Pinwheel Education Series: Indigenous Youth Mental Health

Health Services Program Monitoring and Evaluation: A Population Health Data Analysis Course

The University of Victoria and Population Data BC offer a 13-week online course in Health Services Program Monitoring and Evaluation. The course provides hands-on experience in designing an evaluation of a health service or program under the guidance of an experienced evaluator.

Injury Prevention for the Family Caregiver

In an instant, your whole world can change. Your family member suddenly can’t fully weight-bear, so you bend, you twist, you support and you somehow manage to protect them from injury – but what about you? Caring for a disabled or aging family member can be physically demanding, with caregivers often putting the needs of […]

Pinwheel Education Series: Depression in Children

Change Day BC: Virtual Celebration

Join us for a virtual celebration of Change Day across BC and beyond!

Local and international speakers will share their stories of creating change, engaging peers and spreading improvement ideas. Tune in to hear from them, ask questions, join the discussion and share YOUR Change Day BC stories and activities!

Why Compassion Matters: Personal Reflections of Patients and Health Care Providers

Join this webinar, part of Alberta Health Services (AHS)’s Patient and Family Centred Care Week, to hear personal stories and experiences of compassion from a panel of patients, families and AHS providers. Hear their definitions and descriptions of why compassion matters and how they have practiced and benefited from compassion. Take this opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts about why compassion matters.

It Takes a Village: Leveraging Compassion-Friendly Environments for the People We Serve and Each Other

By participating in this webinar, which is part of Alberta Health Services’ Patient and Family Centred Care Week, you will learn about the movement to create mental health-friendly environments for patients, families and health care providers.

Introduction to Patient Engagement & Integrated Knowledge Translation

Join this webinar presented by Lisa Petermann and Diane Duncan from the Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit, to learn how to explain patient-oriented research – and why it’s worth engaging with – in your own words.

Charting a Course Toward Compassion: Patient and Health Care Provider Perspectives and Experiences

This webinar, part of Alberta Health Services’ Patient and Family Centred Care Week, will share patient and health care provider perspectives and experiences of compassion and will discuss how these findings generated an empirical model depicting the key domains and flow of compassion.

Pinwheel Education Series: Trans* Youth Mental Health

Trans* youth are more likely to face discrimination, prejudice, and exclusion than their cis youth peers. As a result, trans* youth often face mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, and trauma. Join our panel as they discuss the best ways to support trans* youth through their mental health journey.

Provincial Learning Event: Engaging Patients in Health Care Improvements

If you have used health care in BC, and have great ideas on how the system can be improved, join us for a lively discussion with Jami Brown, one of the Patient Voices Network’s Engagement Leaders, about possibilities available through the Patient Voices Network and how you can get involved today.

Peer-to-Peer Webinar Series: Success Stories in Evidence-Informed Decision Making (Webinar #1)

There are many examples of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) among public health professionals and organizations in Canada. However, these stories aren’t always shared within the public health community. The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) seeks to address this gap with an interactive, peer-led webinar series featuring a collection of EIDM success stories […]

Webinar: Breaking the Cycle of Recurrent Fracture

This webinar highlights a patient-oriented research team’s project to address a gap in osteoporosis care identified by patients and health providers. Dr. Sonia Singh brought together a group of leaders, health care providers and patients from Fraser Health to develop a health care model that would prevent additional breaks in patients admitted to hospital with an initial fracture. Results were so impressive that local decision-makers have found a way to fund the program on a permanent basis.

Information Session: Become a Patient Surveyor

Accreditation Canada (AC) is currently recruiting patient partners/advisors interested in becoming patient surveyors. This is a great opportunity for patient partners to network with other patient partners and health care professionals to broaden their skills.

Patients and families as partners in detecting the deteriorating patient condition

A webinar designed and facilitated by patient partners When things go from bad to worse, everyone has a role to play to ensure patient safety. Family members are a vital part of the healthcare team and are often best positioned to recognize the sometimes subtle, yet very important changes in their loved one’s condition that […]

A Toolbox for Creating Sustainable Partnerships with Patients and Families in Research

Join the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) for a free webinar to learn about partnerships in research and how to navigate their new Toolbox, an online resource of strategies, tools, and lessons learned for research partnerships with patients and families.

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