PQI Community Monthly Email

August 21, 2024

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are having an enjoyable summer! 

We are excited to share that Ava Butler (Cohort 7) has joined the PQI Team as our newest physician faculty member! Congratulations and welcome to the team, Ava!!

Are you interested in being more involved with PQI? There is information below about the Alums Consult Service, and we are always thrilled to connect with you to hear more about what you are interested in. Please reach out anytime. 

Check out some of the upcoming opportunities for Alums and current Cohort members below.

Julia

Alum Shout Outs

Upcoming Opportunities

 

This year's theme is “Peering Through the
Cracks of Today’s Palliative Care.” 

Speakers include, Valorie Masuda (Cohort 1)
and Jessica Otte (Cohort 1)

Learn More & Register
(Up to 7.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits)

 

  • Let’s broaden our understanding of harm, together! Registration is now open for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024, Oct 28–Nov 1 (virtual)

 

  • Secure your spot to attend Island Health’s first Climate Change & Planetary Health Conference! 
    Thursday, September 26, at the Vancouver Island Convention Center in Nanaimo. Funding for physicians is provided through Health System Redesign (HSR). 

    Attendees can expect to learn about Island Health’s climate change and environmental sustainability efforts, connect with sustainability advocates and change makers from across the Island, and be empowered to make positive change, no matter their role. Register soon - space is limited!

Click Here for more details

 

Finding Your Way in Teamwork:
Team Coaching Principles

This Rural Coordination Centre of BC's virtual workshop is for rural physicians and their teams. 

September 26, 1700-1900

***Reminder that besides Victoria and Nanaimo, all of 
the Island Health region is considered rural***
 

Register Here
 

Supports are available for physicians and their QI teams to publish and showcase their Learning Action Projects

To access publishing supports, to apply to become a Mentor or Peer Editor, or for any other inquiries, contact quality@doctorsofbc.ca
 

PQI Publishing Support Poster


 

Alums Consult Service

The Alums Consult Service helps connect Alum with current Cohort physicians, SQI project leads, and fellow Alums to share their perspectives, insights and experiences. It supports our "Community of Experts"  to keep growing and becoming a place where people can collaborate on tricky QI issues. 

Each Cohort project has 15 hours of sessional funding available for Alum time. Consider connecting with one or more of the Cohort 9 physicians!

Please reach out for more information or to get help facilitating a connection.

 

Cohort 9 Participant List

Consult Service Infographic
 


Well Planned Action Series

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Well Planned Summit event on June 26! We are working on pulling together a report to share with attendees and the larger Alum community. The results from the Summit will form the basis of our next Action Series, which will focus on medical goals for discharge.

Highlights:

  • An Action Series is a learning opportunity for small groups of interdisciplinary team members. It consists of five theme-based video modules and activity guides that can be completed asynchronously or together
     
  • Eligibility criteria: clinically active hospital-based Medical Staff (physicians/ NPs), Nurses (RN/LPN), and Allied Health (SW/PT/OT/SLP, Liaison, etc.); Patient Partners welcomed
     
  • Medical goals for discharge describe the clinical status of the patient that the team is working towards in order for the patient to be medically fit for discharge and provides information to the entire team of the clinical reason for the admission. Medical goals for discharge is not a checklist to be achieved before discharge (criteria led discharge), or a component of advanced care planning (goals of care)
     
  • This is an opportunity for PQI Alums to lead and contribute to system-level change. Recruitment to participate in the Action Series with your team launches the week of September 16

Please email PQI@islandhealth.ca if you are interested in contributing to the creation of the Well Planned Action Series, including reviewing content or being a “video star”. Check out the Good Call Action Series website for an example of an Action Series created locally by our Alum community.

 

Tool of the Month

SketchBubble is widely hailed as the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to captivate your audience from start to finish. Bring your presentations to the next level by using one of these free PowerPoint templates or Google Slides themes!
 

Free PowerPoint Templates

 

As our community continues to grow, we'd love to get your input on what is working well, where there are gaps and opportunities, and any general feedback/ideas for improvement. As always, you can reach out directly to Angelica, Alex, Alicia, Albert, or Julia anytime, or use/bookmark this link as another way to share your thoughts:

surveys.islandhealth.ca/surveys/PQI-Alums-General-Feedback
 

Interested in connecting more often with fellow PQI Alums? South Island Alum Champion, Alicia Power has created a WhatsApp group "QuPID"!

Click here to join the Alum group
 

Have a delightful day! 

If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for improvement, please email PQI@IslandHealth.ca or Julia.Porter@IslandHealth.ca

Visit the PQI page on the Medical Staff website