What's New!- January 2024 | |
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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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Innovation in the North
It is important to share with partners new innovative ways to provide care especially with all the challenges faced at this time in healthcare. The Northern Maternal Child Network (NMCN) would like to provide an opportunity to share your learnings or ideas with the region and host an innovation engagement session.
We are looking for presenters who would like to share with colleagues across the North new innovations as it relates to healthcare professionals caring for maternal, newborn and/or pediatric populations.
A few examples:
- Addressing HHR management shortages: Retention and recruitment ideas, new interdisciplinary care models, shared staffing models, etc.
- Leveraging resources: Innovative collaborations with partner organizations, etc.
- New innovative care practices
- New exciting education opportunities
- Unique and novel practices that fill a void or gap
We would like to showcase as many topics as possible as a means of sharing learnings in the North.
If you have something that you would like to share and present, please email Crystal Lawrence (clawrence@hsnsudbury.ca) and the NMCN committees will review the topics to select presenters. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email as well.
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Understanding Trauma-Informed Practice and Engagement | |
This webinar featured speakers with lived experience of receiving, providing and leading care. This virtual learning event focused on:
- How structures of inequity, privilege and oppression amplify and re-create trauma by prioritizing the needs of specific groups (i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gender, non-Indigenous).
- Intergenerational and historical trauma and its effects in the context of engaging with those with lived experience of the health system.
- The role of the healthcare system in inducing or perpetuating trauma among those who have past experiences of trauma.
Speakers
- Claire Snyman, (she/her), CMA Patient Voice
- Carolyn Shimmin (she/her), George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation
- Jake Starratt-Farr (he/they), CMA Patient Voice
- Sudi Barre (she/her), CMA Patient Voice
- Tammy White Quills-Knife (she/her), CMA Patient Voice
Co-Hosts
- Denise McCuaig, Métis Elder/Indigenous Coach
- Carol Fancott, Director, Patient Engagement & Partnerships, HEC
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Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Racism | |
HEC's new patient safety approach includes a broader concept of harm, including harm caused by racism. Cultural safety and anti-racism are essential to supporting safer care. Unfortunately, First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities continue to face racism in healthcare.
Panelists will look at how racism and culturally unsafe care affect the safety and quality of care for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities. Explore strategies and actions for creating culturally safe and equitable care as we take a distinction-based approach to an urgent patient safety issue.
Host: Beverley Pomeroy, Senior Program Lead, Healthcare Excellence Canada
Panelists:
- Reagan Bartel, Director of Health for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta
- Mme. Bobbi Paul-Alook, Secretary of Health and Seniors for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta
- Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC; Immediate past-President, Canadian Medical Association; Anesthesiologist, Alberta Health Services; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Alberta
- Lynn Kilabuk, former President of Larga Baffin
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Anishinabek Nation FASD Conference
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Anishinabek Nation is planning an FASD Conference to be held on February 21-22nd, 2024. It will be hosted at Casino Rama. Please share this poster with your contacts who many be interested in attending. They are focusing the Conference around our front-line workers and caregivers that support individuals who have FASD or suspected FASD within the Anishinabek Nation Communities.
They will have keynotes speakers, and various workshops throughout the Conference. The Conference is titled "Niisaakbidoong gbaakoganan, Mno-waawiinjigaadeg Bkaanzing" Breaking Down Barriers, Celebrating Differences.
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NEW Simulation Education: PRACTISS | |
PRACTISS is a NOAMA-funded project, spearheaded by a small core team from the Marathon Family Health Team in rural Northern Ontario. Essentially, PRACTISS is a completely free, open-access learning platform looking to make simulation and case-based education accessible to all. Made with rural and low-resource settings in mind, we look to provide novice and non-expert facilitators with all the tools they might need to deliver effective learning for their peers or students - all in a non-commercial way. Through our searchable database, healthcare professionals can access curated, user-generated, simulation scenarios and clinical “snapshots'' on a variety of topics, obstetrics and pediatrics included, geared towards a variety of different allied health professions. | |
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Children's Healthcare Canada and the Conference Board of Canada Collaboration
Children’s Healthcare Canada and the Conference Board of Canada are releasing the second report of our three-part research series entitled The Health and Economic Imperative for Investing in Children’s Healthcare, on the costs of an underfunded pediatric system.
The new report (available in French and English), "Nurturing Minds for Secure Futures", reveals that long delays in access to child and youth mental health services (specifically looking at services to treat anxiety and depression) is conservatively costing Canada $4 billion annually. This figure reflects expenses to publicly funded health systems, the education sector, justice systems as well as forgone employment income of parents and caregivers.
The report has already received early national media coverage in the Globe and Mail, and CTV News. Children's Healthcare Canada will be highlighting the continued media coverage on their social media and website platforms as well. Please feel free to share widely.
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