What's New!- November 2023 | |
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The Northern Maternal Child Network (NMCN), is committed to ensuring you receive timely information regarding best practices, guidelines, resources and events.
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Feel free to send information regarding professional development to info@nmcn.ca for future newsletters.
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ED Nursing Education, Retention, and Workforce Program
Ontario Health has organized FREE General ED Orientation training sessions throughout the months of November and December. Some of the sessions are available in person within organizations in the North and others are live online.
Sessions:
- General ED Orientation: Day 1-Introduction to ED Nursing and the ED Environment (5.5 hrs)
- General ED Orientation: Day 2-Nursing Assessment Systems Approach to ED Patient Presentation (5.5 hrs)
- General ED Orientation: Day 3-Trauma Nursing Assessment, Disaster Management in the ED, and Toxicology (5.5 hrs)
- ED Immersion Program (5 days-Sudbury)
Visit their website for more information and to register.
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Guidance for Clinically Appropriate Use of Virtual Care for Eating Disorders
Ontario Health has developed a guidance document intended to support clinicians in their decision-making around the virtual delivery of mental health care to people living with eating disorders.
It was developed by Ontario Health with advice from an expert panel.
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Paraprofessionals: a needed resource in child and family mental health care
Description: Social factors have increased the need for mental health care. We know that well-designed evidence-based programs have been developed. The disparity between need and fulfillment of this need has never been greater. We have challenged three major barriers. The first barrier is well known while the other two are “dirty little secrets”:
1. There is a shortage of health professionals to deliver care.
2. Many health care professionals do not deliver evidence-based care.
3. Efficiency and diversity in care delivery are not priorities.
We will discuss how well-trained paraprofessionals or coaches embedded in a well monitored system of care represent one solution and the challenges to implementing this solution.
Learning Objectives
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the reasons why current mental health services will not meet the need for service.
- Understand that paraprofessionals are one way to make a difference.
- Understand the barriers to change.
Speaker:
Patrick McGrath: Practicing clinician, Researcher, IWK Health Centre, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University
Watch the Live Recording
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RSV, Flu and COVID-19 in 2023-24: a Triple Threat for Kids
Description: The Fall and early Winter of 2022-23 were a challenging time for pediatric hospitals in Canada. Very early and intense epidemics of RSV and influenza on a backdrop of ongoing circulation of COVID-19 stretched our acute care capacity to its limits (and even beyond), and tested the resilience of everyone working in child health.
Looking towards the upcoming winter season, what can we expect from RSV, COVID-19 and influenza? Which children are at highest risk of severe outcomes from these infections? Are there new tools at our disposal to prevent these infections and lessen disease burden in pediatrics? We will share the latest Canadian data on these common infections and discuss exciting new immunization strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the disease burden of RSV, influenza and COVID-19 in Canadian children and identify children at increased risk for severe infection
- Describe the impact of the COVD-19 pandemic on seasonal respiratory viruses’ epidemiology
- Summarize pediatric immunization strategies for respiratory viruses, including the potential use of long-acting monoclonal antibodies and vaccination during pregnancy
Speaker:
Name: Jesse Papenburg, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
Bio: Dr. Jesse Papenburg practices Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre. His research focuses on the epidemiology of viral respiratory infections. He has led national studies on influenza, COVID-19 and RSV and has over 130 peer-reviewed publications. He actively contributes to national and provincial guidelines on RSV immunoprophylaxis, influenza antiviral treatment and SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics and treatment. Dr. Papenburg is also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) and the Quebec Immunization Committee, and is the chair of NACI’s influenza working group.
Watch the live recording
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SPARK: PODCASTS and interviews with leaders in child and youth health on issues that matter
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PODCAST: Children’s Pain Management: A New Standard to Improve Care
NEW! Launched October 2
Speaker: Dr. Katie Birnie, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, University of Calgary
Dr. Katie Birnie discusses pediatric pain management, focusing on the newly developed National Pediatric Pain Management Standard, the first of its kind in the world.This podcast highlights the ground-breaking work being done in Canada to improve the management of pain in children and youth, with a strong emphasis on equity, patient partnership, collaboration, and implementation.
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PODCAST:Navigating the Child and Youth Mental Health Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
Launched October 23
Speaker: Dr. Javeed Sukhera, Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living, Chief of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital, Hartford Healthcare Behavioral Health Network
Dr. Javeed Sukhera discusses child and youth mental health, emphasizing the challenges faced in accessing timely and appropriate mental health services in both Canada and the United States. He highlights the underfunding of mental health services, the need for a collaborative approach, and the importance of trauma-informed care. Dr. Sukhera also touches on the differences between the healthcare systems in the two countries and the potential for improving access to care through innovative models.
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PODCAST:Integrating Pediatric Social Determinants of Health for Children in Canada
Launched October 30
Speaker: Dr. Justine Cohen-Silver, Investigator, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital.
This podcast features an insightful conversation with Dr. Justine Cohen-Silver, a pediatrician who is making a significant impact in children’s health and healthcare through an innovative school-based program that addresses the social determinants of health. The Model Schools Pediatric Health Initiative (MSPHI) at Unity Health Toronto aims to improve health outcomes for children in under-served communities.
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Nursing retention toolkit: Improving the working lives of nurses in Canada
In recognition of the acute nursing shortages across the country and internationally, the Nursing retention toolkit: Improving the working lives of nurses in Canada has been developed to support nursing retention. As a resource created 'by nurses, for nurses', the Toolkit draws on the expertise of the nursing community, evidence-based practice, and current lived experiences of front-line nurses.
The Toolkit:
- targets various phases of a nursing career and nursing roles including students, new graduates, mid-career, late-career, managers, leaders/executives and educators/faculty;
- spans the continuum of care from acute care hospitals to community, public health and long-term care, including both rural and remote settings;
- compiles current retention strategies that have been implemented across Canada, which will help to foster knowledge transfer of best practices between provinces and territories; and,
- provides employers, organizations, and health system administrators with a retention framework that includes examples of initiatives to bolster new and already existing retention strategies.
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