Quote

“Nurses were three times more likely to commit errors when they worked more than 12.5 hours. “Working overtime increased the odds of making at least one error, regardless of how long the shift was originally scheduled” From Dorothy Pringle’s editorial Shifting Shifts.

Essay

It’s Spring and Convocation is in the Air. So What? from the book Dot: From the Editor-in-Chief

Off the Cuff

Backgrounders to current Freedom of Information debates.

1. Review of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 – OHA: The personal health information and the privacy of its …. handling personal health information …
2. Hospital Privacy Toolkit – Welcome to OHA: Use of Personal Health Information by the Circle of Care …
3. OHA BACKGROUNDER Introduction Overview of Key Provisions: 1 Jan 2011 … Note: This section does not apply to personal health …
4. Lessons Learned from a Privacy Breach at an Academic Health Sciences Centre …
5. Remarks By The Honourable Deb Matthews Minister of Health and Long …Nov 18, 2009 … I’d been on the job three weeks when Tom Closson wrote me suggesting that Freedom of Information laws be extended to cover hospitals. …
6. Implementing a Privacy Compliance Program in Your Hospital …
7. Physicians are  required to comply with the hospital’s privacy policy and information practices where they are acting as agents of the hospital and …
8. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, 2006. Quote from the Order. “ Despite having alerted the hospital to the possibility of …
9. Safe: A Status Update on Information Security and the Hospital Community … IT Security and Privacy are becoming increasingly visible “hot topics” across …

Special Focus on Nursing Leadership

• Special issue – Advanced Practice Nursing in Canada.  A digest of the history and current status of advance practice nurses in Canada.
• Call for Abstracts: The Emerging Face of Nursing Leadership in Canada.  Let’s get the discussion moving on where nursing leadership needs to go and how we’re going to get there. See:
• The Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership is looking for reviewers from practice, research, education and policy.  Interested?  Click here.

Our Editors Recommend

• Evaluating the Balanced Scorecard at the University Health Network: An Impact Assessment by Justin Young, Robert Bell, Adil Khalfan and Evert Lindquist
• Balancing Equity Issues in Health Systems: The Example of Vancouver Coastal Health by Ida Goodreau
• Using a Nursing Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure and Optimize Nursing Performance by Lianne Jeffs, Jane Merkley, Sandy Richardson, Jackie Eli and Mary McAllister
• Adapting the Balanced Scorecard for Mental Health and Addictions: An Inpatient Example by Elizabeth Lin and Janet Durbin
• Toward a Model of Successful Electronic Health Record Adoption by Lynn M. Nagle and Peter Catford
• Assessing the Progress of Malaria Control in Nigeria by Jimoh Amzat

News

• Canadian Obesity Network: Canada’s #1 Health Crisis Deserves Attention During Election
• Health Care Providers Form Working Group to Maximize Value of e-Prescribing
• Better Emergency Room Services for Ontario Patients
• Novel Device for Surgical Interventions
• HTX provides financing to Ontario-based PatientOrderSets.com
• Frontline healthcare providers and the stigma of mental health: A true story
• Ontario won’t punish hospitals that won’t cut costs
• Time is Running Out: Federal Parties Must Commit to Universal Drug Plan as Part of Platform
• Health Care Top Ballot Box Issue For Prairie and Northern Canadians
• Leading scientist and McGill alumnus helps launch Chair in Food Safety
• More…

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Thursday, May, 5, 2011
Dr. Stephen Duckett, Professor in the Alberta School of Business and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.
Topic: Lessons from Alberta, the road less travelled
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room 106, 155 College Street
Sponsors: Accenture, IBM, and PwC
Register here

Stephen Duckett Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Original Recipe)

Upcoming Speakers – Details and registration will be announced in this space soon or sign up for New Events Alerts to be the 1st to know

Dr. Robert Howard, President and CEO, St. Michael’s Hospital – June 2011
Dr. Robert Bell, Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré and Sholom Glouberman – September 2011

Past Presentations can be found here.  All Audio and Video Presentations can be found here

Corporate Canada looking to participate in these highly visible programs can contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com
Healthcare Institutions who would like to send their staff to participate in these programs can contact Sarah Lieberman at rhart@longwoods.com
For sponsorship information, please contact Matthew Hart at 416-864-9667 x113 or email mhart@longwoods.com

The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs registration requirements for individuals working at Healthcare Facilities: To attend any or all sessions over a season, you must hold a current subscription to at least one Longwoods’ journal. A one- time registration fee will also be available for certain events, to be announced upon opening of registration. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Sarah Lieberman at slieberman@longwoods.com.

Conferences

• May 3, 2011: Calgary, AB. Human Resource Management in Healthcare 2011
• May 4-5, 2011: Markham, ON. Ontario Gerontology Association, 30th Annual Conference
• May 8-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual HSCN National Healthcare Supply Chain Conference
• May 9-12, 2011: Halifax, NS. CAHSPR Conference 2011: Renewing Federalism, Improving Health Care: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
• May 11-13, 2011: Toronto, ON. Innovation and Leadership in Rural and Northern Health Care
• May 11-14, 2011: Vancouver, BC. Effecting change through influence
• May 16, 2011: London, ON. What is Collaborative Practice Anyway: How IPC is Working in Health Care
• May 24-27, 2011: Toronto, ON. Dorothy Wylie Nursing and Health Leaders Institute
• May 25-27, 2011: Muskoka, ON. First Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
• June 6-7, 2011: Whistler, BC. National Healthcare Leadership Conference (NHLC) / Conférence nationale sur le leadership dans les soins de santé (CNLSS)
• June 9-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. Physician Leadership Summit

Add your conference to the Longwoods eLetter here
Conferences on the Longwoods site
Ontario Hospital Association conferences.
Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina
For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

Stephen A. Hall to Shared Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Trillium Health Centre & The Credit Valley Hospital, Ontario
Barbara Mildon to Vice-President, Professional Practice and Research, and Chief Nurse, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, Ontario
Patrick Pichette to PatientWay as Chief Marketing Officer
Dr. Jim Shaver to chairman of Royal Victoria Hospital’s medical advisory committee, Barrie, Ontario
Dr. Brian Lentle to the board of Premier Diagnostic Health Services
Eliza Fung to the board of Premier Diagnostic Health Services
Geoffrey Waters to the board of Premier Diagnostic Health Services
Ron McKerrow to the board of Premier Diagnostic Health Services
Ross Greenwood to the board of Premier Diagnostic Health Services
Dr. Bruce Pollock to Vice President of Research CAHM, Toronto, ON
Brenda Rebman to Vice-President, People & Clinical Service, Interior Health, BC
Jess Ketchum toChair, Board of Directors, BC Cancer Foundation, Vancouver, BC

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Program Manager(s), Quality Improvement – Health Quality Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Assistant Professor (Health Policy) – The Faculty of Health Sciences, UWO, London, Ontario
• Vice President, Patient Services – The Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough, ON
• Manager, Occupational Health and Safety Services (OHS) – Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Toronto, ON
• Manager, Health Indicators – Canadian Institute for Health Information, Toronto, ON
• Director of Service – NRC Picker Canada, Toronto, ON
• Director, Client Services – Toronto Central CCAC, Toronto, ON
• Chief Executive Officer – The ALS Society of Canada, Markham, ON
• Director, Patient Safety and Quality – Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON
• Joint Chief Information Officer – Lakeridge Health and Rouge Valley Health System, Toronto, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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