Our Patient Engagement Learning Series Continues!

Our Patient Engagement Learning Series is a one-stop shop to develop your skills for authentic patient engagement and bring health care and patient partners together to strengthen their work.

The first session focused on the most important things to consider when starting out as a health care – patient partner team. If you missed it, check out the recording.

Register for the next sessions in the series!

• Culturally Safe Patient Engagement – What Matters to Indigenous Patient Partners | March 9
   
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Patient Engagement | April 13
   
• Measuring the Success and Impact of Patient Engagement – Evaluation and Closing the Loop | May 11

Register Now to Improve Health Care Together

Learning About Cultural Safety & Humility in
Patient Engagement

Eliminating anti-Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) racism and promoting cultural safety and humility is a high priority across our health system. Read about opportunities coming up in March to expand your learning!

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Help Inform the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council's
New Strategic Plan
Have Your Say on Improving Quality of Care in BC

In case you missed it, the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, which administers PVN, is renewing its strategic plan and wants to know how you think quality of care can be improved in our province.

There are two ways to participate:

Already participated? Keep the conversation going in the ThoughtExchange! You can return as many times as you'd like to add new thoughts and rate newly submitted ones.

Have Your Say by February 25

Upcoming Events to Attend

Brown Bag Lunch – Barriers to Engagement in Patient-Oriented Research Feb. 24 | 12:15 – 1:00 PM

Patient Partner Orientation Session
March 8 | 10:00 – 11:00 AM

Patient Engagement Learning Series: Culturally Safe Patient Engagement – What Matters to Indigenous Patient Partners
March 9 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Patient Partners Take on Quality Improvement
Developing New Skills With IHI's Open School

Continued learning is a great perk of being a patient partner with PVN. Patient partners shared their experience attending the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Open School and how they’re bringing their new skills into engagement opportunities.

Read the Key Takeaways

A Spotlight on Family Councils

How can families work with a long-term care home’s leadership to achieve the best possible experience for residents during their stay? Family councils! Read about Lisa Dawson’s experience on how they can benefit families and staff.

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