What's New! - October 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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We're hiring! Share the Regional Perinatal Lead position with your network
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The NMCN is seeking a dedicated professional to join our team as Regional Perinatal Lead. This role is integral to providing education, resources, advocacy, and foster collaboration amongst our partners to enhance perinatal care in the North.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of a 4 year Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing
- Minimum of 5 years experience working in a Labour and Delivery department within a healthcare environment.
- Experience with quality improvements initiatives.
- Research experience, training or recent experience with project management and/or possess a Master's Degree is preferred.
We encourage all partners to share the Regional Perinatal Lead Job Posting across your network. Applications can be submitted online via HSN's Careers Website.
Please contact Crystal Lawrence, info@nmcn.ca, for any questions or to learn more about the position.
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Registration Extended Until October 10th: Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Instructor Workshop | |
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This 2-day program will provide an overview of the concepts and content in the 8th edition Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation (2021) highlighting the changes between the previous and current resuscitation guidelines.
Schedule:
Day 1: Thursday October 17, 2024, 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Review of the principles of adult learning and development of content included in the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) NRP Provider course, including Performance Skills Stations, Integrated Skills Stations and scenarios for evaluation and debriefing.
Day 2: Friday October 18, 2024, 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Building upon Day 1, candidates will have opportunities to hone their newly acquired skills. Return demonstrations, simulation, debriefing and feedback will be the focus of the learning. Finally, discussion of the roles and responsibilities of CPS NRP Instructors and logistics of running CPS NRP Provider courses will be discussed.
Cost: $500 per person plus $95 for the textbook.
Location: Health Sciences North, 41 Ramsey Lake Rd., Sudbury ON
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Additional Resources for RSV Program Implementation | |
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Centre for Effective Practice: 2024-2025 RSV Prevention Program for infants in Ontario:
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a major cause of illness among infants and young children. Among children under two, there were 3,850 hospitalizations during the 2022-2023 RSV season. Ontario’s RSV Prevention Program for infants is changing and expanding to provide more protection to infants during the 2024-2025 RSV season and to reduce impact on system capacity. The RSV Prevention Program will begin when product supply is available in October.
Immunize Canada: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in young children: A guide for parents and caregivers
This program, intended for parents and caregivers, will focus on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and prevention in young children, specifically infants 0 to 12 months and toddlers 12 to 36 months of age.
Canadian Premature Babies Foundation: What you need to know about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Fact Sheet (18 languages)
Nearly all children will have their first mild, flu-like RSV infection by the time they are 2 years old. Read about what you need to know, RSV symptoms, how it can become more serious, how it spreads, and more. This fact sheet is offered in 18 languages.
Do you have a resource on RSV? Please share with us at info@nmcn.ca.
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9th Annual Northern Ontario Women's Health Conference | |
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NOSM University and the Lakehead Obstetrics and Gynecology Local Education Group are pleased to invite you to the ninth annual Northern Ontario Women's Health Conference! At this in-person conference we will have the opportunity to learn and network with our colleagues who provide care in the region.
Our 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 our region. This year's conference will bring together regional expertise, complimented with expertise from our tertiary care referral centres to discuss pertinent topics to our patient population.
FULL-DAY FORMAT! Conference content will focus on Gynecology in the morning sessions and Obstetrics in the afternoon sessions, with a warm-up session and welcome reception on Thursday evening.
Conference Events:
- Thursday, November 21, 2024 - Warm-Up Session and Reception at The Chanterelle on Park, Thunder Bay ON.
- Friday, November 22, 2024 Half Day or Full Day Conference at the Delta Hotel by Marriott, Thunder Bay ON.
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New StatCan data highlights changes in children’s health | |
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Statistics Canada released data from the 2023 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY).
The CHSCY was conducted between March and June 2023 and followed up with individuals who participated in the 2019 survey to see how the physical and mental health of children and youth have changed over the past four years. This longitudinal release provides information on changes in the mental health of respondents from the 2019 survey.
Highlights from the results:
- The results indicate that one-third of youth reported a change in their mental health across the four-year follow-up period.
- In 2019, 12% of youth aged 12 to 17 had rated low levels of mental health. That proportion more than doubled to 26% in 2023, when they were aged 16 to 21.
- Among the 88% of youth who rated their mental health as “good”, “very good”, or “excellent” in 2019, about one in five (21%) reported a decline to “fair” or “poor” by 2023.
- Compared with boys, girls were more likely to not only experience declines in their self-reported mental health, but also to maintain low self-rated mental health across the four-year follow-up period.
- Optimism about school diminishes with age, particularly among those with declining mental health. Of those who reported a decline in optimism toward school in 2023, 13% of parents of children aged 7 to 11 who rated their child’s mental health as “good”, “very good” or “excellent” in 2019 had reported declines into “fair” or “poor” in 2023.
Data collected from the CHSCY will provide a better understanding of factors that impact the physical and mental health of children and youth, and may be used by decision-makers to monitor health trends, help inform policies and improve the support young people need to lead healthy lives. Further analysis using the 2023 CHSCY cross-sectional sample will be released in winter 2025.
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The Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) is a centralized system for gathering de-identified data on severe maternal morbidity (SMM) events that occur in hospital. The purpose of this system is to aggregate data, conduct confidential reviews, identify contributing systematic and contextual factors that contribute to SMM, and then to develop, implement and evaluate targeted recommendations aimed at reducing SMM. The
aim of CanOSS is to go ‘beyond the numbers,’ by complementing epidemiological data.
Save the Dates: CanOSS-Ontario Planning Meeting, May 12-14, 2025. Hamilton ON.
Learn more about CanOSS in their latest newsletter
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Recordings & Webinars from Children's Healthcare Canada | |
Child Health Research: The Foundation of Rightsizing Child Health Systems | |
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In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, join host, Dr. Katharine Smart, as she engages in a compelling dialogue with Dr. Christine Chambers, Scientific Director of CHIR IHDCYH, about the role and value of child health research in right-sizing health systems for children and youth.
Watch | Listen
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Quality Community-Based Autism Care in Canada: Scaling-up ECHO AuDIO | |
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All autistic children receive care in community setting, and yet too much work has focused on care processes in tertiary settings. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Autism aims to change this through the evidence-based ECHO model, which aims to ensure that all children can access quality autism care, irrespective of geography.
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Coming Soon: Care Without Borders: Strategies for Delivering Quality Healthcare to Kids in Rural and Remote Communities | |
With special guests: Crystal Edwards, Thunderbay Regional Health Sciences Centre; and Dr. Holden Sheffield, Qikitani General Hospital. | |
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