What's New!- September 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.
Visit our website for more information.
Feel free to send information regarding professional development to info@nmcn.ca for future newsletters.
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Pediatric Surge Resources
Are you prepared for the flu season? Here are some resources that can help employees feel better prepared to care for our pediatric patients.
Health Sciences North created a resource page. Featured on the page are resources from Connected Care at SickKids, Open Pediatrics, TREKK, Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education and Kids Health Alliance.
Education offered can also be found on the NMCN education page on their website.
Note: If there is education/certification offered in your organization that you would like advertised on our website, please email clawrence@hsnsudbury.ca.
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PregnancyED: Patient Resource
PregnancyED is a great patient resource on miscarriages and early pregnancy complications. The site provides information on what to expect in the emergency department, symptoms of pregnancy complications, types of pregnancy outcomes and miscarriages.
Review their free printable patient handouts:
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A Mental Health Literate Generation
Discover how our suite of freely available, evidence-based curricular resources follow the learner through their educational journey. Hear from educational leaders, teachers, students and caregivers about the impacts of integrating a mental health literacy approach in schools. This video highlights the Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide and the new Elementary Mental Health Literacy Resource.
Watch the video now
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2023 IHDCYH Talks Video Competition is open!
The CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health is looking for submissions to its 2023 IHDCYH Talks Video Competition. Registration is now open!
You can create a new short evidence-based video or submit something you already made, up to five minutes long, about child or youth health. Videos will be peer-reviewed as well as voted on through the IHDCYH Talks YouTube channel and the best short video wins $3,000.
Registration deadline is September 27, 2023
Submission deadline is October 16, 2023. Public voting on YouTube will take place through the month of November 2023. Please visit the IHDCYH Talks website for more information.
Nothing is off limits. “How to Have a Successful Poop After Surgery” was a winner last year. Check out all the 2022 winning videos here:
Congratulations to the 2022 IHDCYH Talks Video Competition winners!
Good luck!
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Register Now for the Children's Healthcare Canada Annual Conference and Transition to Adulthood Pop-Up!
Get ready for an unforgettable experience! Register today for the highly-anticipated Children's Healthcare Canada Annual Conference and the 2nd Transition to Adulthood Pop-Up event, taking place from December 2nd - 5th, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver. Co-hosted by the BC Children's Hospital, this conference will focus on right-sizing children's health systems for the future, with a theme of Flip the Script: High Performing Health Systems for Kids!
Join us in person for the opportunity to network and meet with inspiring child health leaders, or participate virtually from anywhere in the world - the choice is yours! With an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, panels and workshops, you'll gain valuable insights and knowledge to elevate your practice.
Before the conference begins, we're hosting a special one-day pop-up event focusing on the transition to adult care. This unique gathering brings together youth, families, trainees, researchers, clinicians, and policy/decision makers to celebrate the best of what is being done to help young people who face health challenges.
Register Now!
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Children's Healthcare Canada Right-Sizing virtual Roundtables
Children's Healthcare Canada is seeking your input. Children’s health systems across the continuum of care and indeed across the country are experiencing acute capacity challenges resulting in long delays to access essential, and sometimes time sensitive services.
As might be expected, CHC has begun fielding calls and questions about what a “right-sized” children’s health system looks like, including measurable targets to help meet the needs of a growing population of children and youth. CHC would like to undertake some work to flesh this out further, with the support of CHC members, family partners, and others who are delivering health services for kids.
In October and November, CHC will be facilitating roundtables and need your input:
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Access to Care in the Community: how do we build systems where children and youth have robust access to specialized and sub-specialized services in primary care and community contexts, including the education system? October 20 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
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Innovating Hospital Based Services and Care Models: how do we evolve our hospital systems to improve access to high quality diagnostics and treatments? What is needed to foster sustainable systems – including equipment, space, care models, skills mixes, health professional teams and hospitals that anticipate and match the needs of communities and populations? October 20, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
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Care Pathways and Transitions for Populations with Complex Needs: how do we build and strengthen systems to support children and youth with medical fragility, complex and developmental needs, from early detection and intervention to transition to the adult systems?October 23, 12:00 - 2:00 pm ET:
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Child, Youth and Family Mental Health: how do we fully integrate mental health care across the health continuum, connecting fragmented systems and ensuring all children and families have access to services when they need them? What is our role in addressing causal factors through policy and legislation? October 30, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
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Equitable Access to Care across the Country and for all Populations: How do we ensure services throughout the health systems fully encompass equity principles, ensuring full access and culturally informed care for everyone? How do we use data and research about health inequities to co-create care and services that reach marginalized, underserved and remote populations? November 2, 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET
Register Now!
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Northern Ontario Women's Health Conference 2023
NOSM University and the Lakehead Obstetrics and Gynecology Local Education Group are pleased to invite you to the sixth annual Northern Ontario Women's Health Conference! This year they plan to be back in person so they can learn and network with colleagues who provide care in the region.
Their mission, as always, is to bring together remote, rural, and urban primary care providers to network and share information related to Women's Health in the region. This year's conference will bring together regional expertise, complimented with expertise from tertiary care referral centres to discuss pertinent topics to the patient population.
When: November 16 & 17, 2023
For more information
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If you use the Ontario Perinatal Record, we want to hear your feedback!
The Ontario Perinatal Record (OPR) is intended to guide clinicians in the provision of consistent, high-quality care throughout pregnancy and the early postpartum period. The Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH) released the last version of the OPR in 2017, in partnership with Ontario's Better Outcomes Registry and Network (BORN), the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), and the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM).
A Task Force has been convened by PCMCH to review and update the content of the OPR and accompanying User Guide in 2023/24, to reflect updated evidence and current best practices regarding perinatal care and its documentation. This Task Force has interprofessional representation from midwifery, family medicine, obstetrics, and nursing, with diverse membership from various perinatal care settings and regions across the province. Key partner organizations are involved, including the AOM, BORN Ontario, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), the OMA Forms Committee, and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
If you use the Ontario Perinatal Record, we want to hear your feedback! Please complete our survey by Thursday, September 21, 2023. Your input will be reviewed and discussed by the PCMCH OPR Task Force and any changes to the clinical content/data elements will be made according to decision-making criteria that consider evidence, patient safety, functionality and more.
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Ontario Health's Social Determinants of Health Framework...A Paradigm Shift
What Makes People Sick? The World Health Organization states that “social determinants
of health (SDoH) are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life".
OH developed a framework that brings together eight key principles and examples to address barriers while expanding adoption of a SDoH approach to transform care delivery and outcomes.The Framework is intended to be a practical tool that can be used to guide our collective efforts to “shift the focus” to addressing underlying health inequities and root causes holding illness in place. Shifting from “what’s the matter with you?” to “what matters to you?” and moving upstream to address population health needs.
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