Longwoods eLetter June 07, 2005

“As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.” Bill Gates

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NOTEWORTHY

Steven Lewis is the winner of the 2005 Canadian Healthcare Association Award for Distinguished Service

· Announcement: http://www.longwoods.com/opinions/StevenLewisAward.pdf

· What Steven Lewis really wants to do with his life: http://www.longwoods.com/jobsite/HQ73Lomas_Lewis.pdf

· His perspective on regionalization: http://www.longwoods.com/hp/5-1Regionalization/HP51Regionalization.pdf

BEST PRACTICES

Retaining and Transferring Nursing Knowledge through a Hospital Internship Program
The importance of investing in knowledge workers is imperative given the current and future shortage of health professionals. Knowledge acquisition occurs through continuous learning and the transfer of information from those who are highly experienced to those who are less qualified. At St. Michael's Hospital, two innovative and unique programs were created for the transfer of knowledge. The first was a nurse fellowship program that enabled experienced nurses to spend two to three months learning new skills to advance clinical practice. The second was a nurse internship program in which new graduates spend three to four months in their area of hire to enhance clinical practice through skill development and prioritization of patient care needs. Download PDF | Go to Article

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

Top 5 downloaded papers for May, 2005 – from Longwoods.com

1. The Pulse of Renewal: A Focus on Nursing Human Resources. 15 report summaries with specific Calls to Action. http://www.nursingleadership.net/renewal

2. Benchmarking Patient Complaints Data across Ontario Hospitals: UHN Invites Collaboration, Sharon Rogers and Belinda Vilhena: Download PDF
3. Regionalization: making sense of the Canadian experience: http://www.longwoods.com/hp/5-1Regionalization/HP51Regionalization.pdf

4. Nature and Prevelance of Mental Health in the Workplace: http://www.longwoods.com/hp/5-2MentalHealth/HP52Mental.pdf

5. Building a System We Can Count On; Information Management http://www.longwoods.com/events/breakfast/BC05_May11/BWTCMay112005.pdf

Do you have a case study? Submit a case study to the Longwoods Library. Please visit: http://www.longwoods.com/CaseStudies/index.html

SPEECHES & PRESENTATIONS THAT MATTER

Mary Jo Haddad, CEO of the Hospital for Sick Children discusses: 1) Childhood diseases could creates a complexity of needs that could ripple through the adult system for years into the future. 2) Young patients graduate to the adult system. If we don’t heal them now, they’ll end up on adult wait lists. 3) Children are no more little adults on the gurney – or in the MRI -- than they are little adults behind the wheel. Details here: http://www.longwoods.com/opinions/

FROM THE JOBSITE for leaders in management, practice, education and research. Updated daily.

1. If you are an internationally-educated nurse who wants to work in your profession in Canada, CELBAN may help you. http://www.celban.org/

2. Here is our weekly jobsheet: http://www.longwoods.com/jobsite/JobSheet.html

3. . . and our Nursing opportunities Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)

Feature Careers
Health Care Consultant–Corporate & Program Planning - Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Program Leader, Rehabilitation & Geriatrics - Halton Healthcare
Chief Executive Officer - Muskoka-East Parry Sound Health Services
Nursing Program Director - Campbellford Memorial Hospital
Administrative Leader Positions - Providence Continuing Care Centre
Vice President, Clinical Services - Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
Challenging Opportunities - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Director of Surgical Services/Processing - Calgary Health Region
Centre for Health Outcomes Research, Scientific Director - UAlberta & Capital Health

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

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

June 8. Health Technology Assessment process for medical devices in Canada and internationally. Dr. Jill M. Sanders, Mike Gaucher, Andrew Dillon, Janine Lepage, Dr. Leslie Levin, Dr. Véronique Déry, Don Juzwishin, Joanne O’Gorman, Moderator is David Ames, Director, Emerging Technologies & Health Economics – Johnson & Johnson Medical Products. Go to www.medec.org/events.asp

June 15. Emergency Departments: Easing the Congestion. Toronto. www.oha.com/conferences for complete agendas and on-line registration.

June 24. Pediatric Patient Safety Symposium. Sick Kids. June 24, 2005. http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/PDF/PAE0508.pdf

June 29. Wireless Healthcare - 7th Annual INET Mini-Conference. www.inet-international.com

September 13. Honourable George Smitherman kicks off the Fall session of Breakfast with the Chiefs. Book it now with LLopez@longwoods.com

September 14. First National CNIA conference. Nurses & Informatics: Transforming Healthcare. http://www.cnia.ca/CFP.html

September 18. The CAHSPR Conference (register with pcharbonneau@cahspr.ca) in Montreal just prior to the International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services (ICSBHS) and following the University of Montreal’s Jean-Yves-Rivard Conference.

October 27. Mickey and Goofy are coming back. Again. The DeGroote School of Business and St. Joseph's Healthcare welcome The Disney Institute. To sign up please download the registration form.

TRANSITIONS

Professor Sioban Nelson to Dean, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Yves Portelance to Vice President and General Manager, Hospital and Automation Solutions, McKesson Canada

Pierre Coulombe to President, National Research Council of Canada

Stephen DeFalco to Chief Operating Office, MDS Inc.

Madeline Boscoe to Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ottawa

NEWS & INFORMATION

The latest Health Record News: http://www.longwoods.com/eHealthRecord/EHRindex.html

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ReSOURCES

1. How to Build a Mini Med School: You will find all the material here: http://www.longwoods.com/ppp/index.html

2. AWARDS: Call for submissions: Best Practices | Ted Freedman | Therapeutic Clowns: http://www.longwoods.com/ppp/HealthcareAwards/index.html

3. IHSPR is accepting applications for workshops or research community development initiatives until June 15. IHSPR's website.

4. Looking for information about the Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Healthcare? http://www.longwoods.com/ppp/HealthcareAwards/index.html

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