Longwoods eLetter April 12, 2005

“Put not your trust in princes.” Psalm 146

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FROM HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY’S NEW CASE LIBRARY
Mount Sinai Hospital Develops "Sinai e-Learning": Making It Simpler for Busy Clinical Staff to Master Healthcare Applications. Marilyn Sanli Download PDF

Benchmarking Patient Complaints Data across Ontario Hospitals: University Health Network Invites Collaboration. Sharon Rogers and Belinda Vilhena Download PDF

Improving Work Life Quality: A Diagnostic Approach Model. Martin Lees and Samantha Kearns Download PDF

Collaborating to Innovate and Improve Patient-Centred Care at Hamilton Health Sciences. Ann Russell, Heather Campbell, Marlene Scardamalia, Mary Lamon, Blake Melnick, Jennifer Henderson, Chuck Cunningham, Anne Matheson and Nancy Smith Lea Download PDF

Successfully Challenging Traditional Working Practices within Orthopaedics. Jennifer Faraone, Susan Bisaillon, Kathy Elliott, Jane Cuthbert, Cindy Doucette and Joan Shaw Download PDF

Development of a Regional Clinical Pathway for Total Hip Replacement in a Rural Health Network. Jessica Meleskie and Katrina Wilson Download PDF

Shifting nursing research from a university-based operation to one shared by practice. . . plus the development of nurse clinician scientists. Dr. Dorothy Pringle

Will researchers do the work that is relevant to decision-makers. They could be. Read this.

The new issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership. Open here.

WOTS A BOT? WILL DER BE A BOT? Breakfast with the Chiefs

This 18-hospital business office strategy is NOT a done deal. But it might be. Get the latest information here. April 14, 2005. Details: Download PDF

All suppliers who are not members of the HealthcareBoard can register here: http://www.longwoods.com/subscribe/canadian.html

Healthcare providers, policy managers and other members of the HealthcareBoard can register with Lina Lopez at: llopez@longwoods.com

May 30. It’s Mary Jo Haddad at Breakfast with the Chiefs. She’s preparing a new policy position with national implications. More next week. In the mean time, here’s her take on leadership. Reserve a seat with Lina Lopez at: llopez@longwoods.com

Call for Papers for a special issue on Patient Safety (A collaborative between the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Ontario Hospital Association Patient Safety Support Service.) Editor is Dr. Ross Baker.

Details on the Canadian Patient Safety Institute here.

Healthcare Policy: a Journal of Health Services, Management and Policy Research. Announcement and Call for Papers | Politiques de santé : Revue scientifique sur les politiques et la gestion des services de santé. Annonce et invitation à présenter des articles

CONFERENCES
The Sixth International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services, in Montréal, September 18 to 20, 2005. Improving Health by Advancing Healthcare: Linking Research, Policy and Action. For more information click here. A healthy CCHSE initiative.

International Council of Nurses (ICN). May 2005 http://www.icn.ch/congress2005/. Support Dr. Ginette Lemire Rodger for ICN president. See: http://www.cna-aiic.ca/CNA/GLR/message_e.asp

Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH) - conference. 15-17 May 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia. http://www.workhealth.ca/confhome.htm

Challenges and Opportunities of Supply Chain Integration, on May 9

Administrative Professionals Conference. Also on May 9

Ontario Case Costing Conference. May 17, 2005

Visit www.oha.com/conferences for agenda details.

When you talk to your CEO do you illustrate your point with a picture? Tell us about it. HCPRA@longwoods.com. We’ll share it with the Health Care Public Relations Association annual meetings. details here: http://www.ahpcanada.com/2005conference/welcome.htm.

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Hospitals, Regions, Clinics. Do you have a gift policy. Will you share this with your colleagues? Please send it to: ahart@longwoods.com. People are asking. This is a tough one. Anybody?

RECRUIT LEADERS in management, practice, education and research. Updated daily.

( Not all healthcare organizations looking for senior nursing and administrative leaders are listed below. These good ones are. )

Chief Operating Officer - Southlake Regional Health Centre
Director, Operations, Quebec & Eastern Canada (Ottawa)-Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Director, Research-Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Project Manager-Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Administrative Assistant (Edmonton)-Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Program Director, Critical Care & Medicine - Ross Memorial Hospital
Director Positions - Peace Country Health
Senior Operating Officer-Mental Health - Capital Health Edmonton
Centre for Health Outcomes Research, Scientific Director - UAlberta & Capital Health
Corporate Manager, Clinical Informatics - William Osler Health Centre
Communications Consultant - London Health Sciences Centre
Partner Manager (Contract Position) - March Networks
Communications Advisor - Ontario College of Pharmacists
Manager, Communications - College of Nurses of Ontario
Advisor, Corporate Communications - Fraser Health, BC
Director, Public Relations - Fraser Health, BC
Manager, Corporate Communications - The Capital Care Group, Edmonton
Public Relations Officer - Peace Country Health, Alberta
Careers at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Healthcare Quarterly Careers (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)

[ Send your leadership career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com ]

Do you have an innovative idea for improving health care? The Change Foundation provides seed funding of up to $100,000 per grant over two years. Details from Victoria Wolno at mvkwolno@changefoundation.com

Nova Scotia’s Long Term Care program. And other plans, policies and programs from across the country.

TRANSITIONS
Ed Kilroy has left IBM Canada to become the CEO of Symcor Inc.

Dr. Chris Mazza to Strategic Lead: Ontario emergency transport medicine systems

Dr. Matthew Morgan is on vacation. More when he returns.

Ferzana Gillani to Project Manager for the Hospital Report series – (OHA/ MOHLTC)

Warren DiClemente is now Vice President, Operations and Educational Services at OHA

[ Send your transitions to eLetter@longwoods.com ]

ReSOURCES

1. The Fetal Alert Network - www.fetalalertnetwork.com

2. New Patient Safety Resource Guide: (This is worth a bold bookmark)
http://www.cna-aiic.ca/CNA/practice/environment/safety/guide/default_e.aspx

3. Nursing Informatics eRounds Certificate program. Self-directed learning at its best.

4. The latest on LHINs: http://www.longwoods.com/OntarioLHIN/index.html

COLUMNS AND CONTEST

1. CIHI Survey– More Scans, More Scanners

2. Our wrlod has cangehd. Figure it out. Contest.

HR Resources here: HRresources.ca. A searchable database of best practices

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