Engagement Opportunities - Week of November 7

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Here are this week's new engagement opportunities.

If you don’t see opportunities in your region, it could just be that none were posted in the past seven days. Check the Engagement Opportunities page to see all 17 current opportunities, or contact the Engagement Leader in your region to learn more.

Click on a link below to go directly to the opportunities in your region:

Provincial Opportunities
Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region
Interior Region
Northern Region
Vancouver Island Region
External Opportunities

Or click on the button below to see all currently open opportunities:

Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region

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Working Group Member, Critical Care in Residential Care Homes
It can be a challenge to provide critical care in residential care homes in a way that meets the expectations of family and friends while ensuring the most optimal patient experience. That’s why being able to identify what is most meaningful to patients and families is critical to future care planning. The Critical Care Team at Surrey Memorial Hospital is seeking input from those families and friends who have experience with this issue to co-create a research study on improving the patients’ experience in taking care of a chronic illness at residential care homes.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Deadline: November 14

Focus Group Participant, Acute Psychiatry Guidelines Review
Do you have an interest in acute psychiatry? Providence Health Care is looking for patient and family input in reviewing a new guideline related to patients who leave an acute inpatient psychiatry against the advice of their care team.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Deadline: November 17

Member, Home Support Resources Awareness Team
In today’s world, people access information through a variety of ways, whether it’s the internet or television. The Fraser Network Alliance recognizes that using these ways provides a unique opportunity to inform and engage the public, increasing their understanding of home support services available to them in Fraser Health. They are seeking patient partners, with experience in home support, to be a part of the development and production of videos that tell their story of using these services to help seniors stay home and healthy for as long as possible.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in Fraser Valley
Deadline: November 21

Interior Region

Participant, Vernon Emergency Rapid Process Improvement Workshop
You’re invited to join this improvement project which focuses on decreasing readmission of vulnerable patients to the Emergency Department while utilizing existing resources within the department.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the North Okanagan area
Deadline: November 17

Participant, Regional Diabetes Discharge Planning and Patients/Family Discharge Teaching
Do you have any experience with use of insulin? This opportunity focuses on education and discharge from hospital after starting on insulin.
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Open to: Patient partners in the Interior region
Deadline: November 17

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Patient Partner, Physician Quality Improvement Initiative Committee
Do you have an interest in quality improvement? The new Physician Quality Improvement Initiative Committee provides a unique platform for patients to give feedback and work alongside physician champions throughout Interior Health to improve health care services.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Interior Health region
Deadline: November 21

External Opportunities

Patient Honorary Advisor, ISQua Board
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Board is looking for a patient partner to take on the position of Patient Honorary Advisor on Person Centred Care. As the Patient Advisor you will provide the board with information and advice based on your deep insights on the patient perspective in relation to safety and quality in health care.
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Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: November 10

Focus Group Participant, Multi-Morbidity Innovation Project
Multi-Morbidity is a home health monitoring initiative to support patients with multiple chronic conditions work collaboratively with their care team. This initiative promotes a patient-centric approach, by improving patients’ understanding of their conditions and self-management capacity, providing access to the appropriate and preferred choice of services and support; as well as allowing patients to access care from their home and reducing the need to visit acute care facilities.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners on Vancouver Island
Deadline: November 16

Participant, BC Children’s Hospital Biobank Workshop
BC Children’s Hospital is conducting a workshop for patients and parents on November 20 to come and express their opinions on the barriers, risks and benefits of biobanking. Biobanks are important to finding new and better treatments for all patients, and we want to make sure that biobank practices are effective, respectful and inclusive for all patients.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Deadline: November 17