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Longwoods eLetter May 30, 2006

". . . turf protection . . . can result in competition rather than collaboration" - Dr. Patty Solomon, Director, Professor and Coordinator of Interprofessional Education in the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University

OFF THE CUFF
Podcasts for nurse leaders – new case studies to download to your iPOD or listen on-line. Click here.

Now available: Interprofessional Health Human Resources Initiative: proceedings from a think tank of interprofessionals. Download PDF

Hillary Clinton on patient safety and medical liability reform

The number of nurse practioners (NP) in Canada has increased by at least 18% in just one year, and about 40% of them are working on the community health sector. See The Regulation and Supply of Nurse Practitioners in Canada: 2006 Update, a collaborative report of Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). Online at www.cihi.ca.

Just released. From the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care: Resources for Health System Planners, Managers and Decision Makers

RECOMMENDED READING ON KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership
The Joint Venture Model of Knowledge Utilization: A Guide for Change in Nursing
Linda Edgar, Rosemary Herbert, Sylvie Lambert, Jo-Ann MacDonald, Sylvie Dubois and Margot Latimer

Healthcare Quarterly
Evidence, Interests and Knowledge Translation: Reflections of an Unrepentant Zombie Chaser
Morris Barer

Healthcare Policy
Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary
Robert G. Evans

HealthcarePapers
Negotiating for Change. The Healthcare Manager as Catalyst for Evidence-Based Practice: Changing the Healthcare Environment and Sharing Experience
George P. Browman, Anne Snider and Peter Ellis

ElectronicHealthcare
The Knowledge Audit as a Launch Pad for Knowledge Management in Hospitals: A Case Report from Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre
Taodhg Burns, Caroline Lonsdale and Shahida Rashid

Law and Governance
Knowledge Translation and the Duty of Care: A Medical-legal Analysis
Dr. Peggy J. Blair

HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY – Don’t miss the next issue. In the mail June 1st

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer – Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety: Ratios and Beyond
CIHR Research – Tea Leaves Alzheimer’s Disease Behind
ICES Report – Heath Data in Ontario: Take Stock and Moving Ahead
CIHI Survey – Wait Times: A Snapshot of What We Know

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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – now available online | enabled by TELUS
Matthew Anderson
IT Collaboration Report PDF (448 KB)
Information Management Strategy 2009 PDF (872 KB)
Click to Watch Video Presentation
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Dell Canada, Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Philips Medical Systems, Roche, and TELUS

Penny Ballem, MD, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health British Columbia
Advancing Health Care in B.C. PDF (804 KB)
Click To Watch Video Presentation
Sponsors: 3M, Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Cerner, Compass Group Canada, Microsoft Canada, Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and TELUS.

BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – Don’t miss the last Breakfast of the 05/06 Season
Toronto*. Richard Alvarez, CEO, Canada Health Infoway. Topic: Infoway's Annual Report. Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Cerner, Dell Canada, Healthtech, Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Philips Medical Systems, and TELUS. Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (join us for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.) | Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, Room 106 (ground floor). Map. Register with Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com. NOTE: This presentation will not go online. Onsite participation has its priviledges.

Visit the ‘Breakfast with the Chiefs’ photo galleries. Click here. Go ahead treat this like a picture-blog -- add your comments.

Stay tuned for a list of our upcoming speakers. The 2006/2007 Breakfast with the Chiefs series already includes: Anne Cavoukian, Ross Baker, Alan Bernstein, Hon. Tony Clement, Hon. George Smitherman, Jeff Lozon, Sheila Weatherill, and John Tory. More coming soon.

* To attend, you need to be a member of the HealthcareBoard. Ask Lina for details.

MORE CONFERENCES & EVENTS

June 7, 2006: 2pm (1 hour duration): Complimentary webcast - Creating Value with Wi-Fi-based Hospital Asset Tracking. Learn how UNIS LUMIN can help Canadian hospitals achieve real business results with the design and deployment of a real-time asset tracking solution from partners Cisco® and PanGo®. For details click here.

June 09, Toronto. ANEGTA 2006 Annual Meeting and Luncheon + Leading in your Organization – Perspectives to Shape Nursing Administrative Strategies. Download PDF

June 19, 2006: 10:30am-11:00am EST/: Join an executive discussion on change with the world’s leading provider of healthcare services in a live, interactive webcast, presented by Hewlett-Packard (HP). McKesson CEO John H. Hammergren and CIO Randall N. Spratt will table many of the IT and healthcare-related issues that you grapple with each and every day. Make a date with change. Register at www.hp.com/go/changeartists.

Infoway: Collaborating with Healthcare Information Technology Solution Providers - Summer 2006 series. For senior and middle management in sales, marketing, business development, product development and services. 2 hour meetings. See schedules and Click here to register.

June 22, 2006: HIMSS Ontario Annual General Meeting. Featuring Dr. Adalsteinn Brown and six other dynamic presentations. Details here

July 28-30, 2006: WorldFuture 2006. Creating Global Strategies for Humanity's Future, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. See the web site at http://www.wfs.org and click on "2006 Toronto."

August 12, 2006, Toronto. International Nursing Forum: Nurses at the Forefront of HIV/AIDS:
http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/news/events/aids_forum/default_e.aspx.
You can register here: registration@unconventionalplanning.com.

November 6-8, 2006: OHA HealthAchieve2006 - register online today and take advantage of the Super Early Bird Promotion. Special Rates available only until July 28, 2006! For details click here.

How to get value from a conference. If you believe that success is about pushing yourself to learn new things, to change, and to build a web of personal relationships, then going to the right conferences, and attending them in the right way, can be critical to your strategy for staying on the cutting edge -- both in your organization and in your career. Learn more here.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

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GRANTS & AWARDS
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) is pleased to announce its second annual Grants Competition for research and Demonstration projects. The funding will be divided between two streams, “Applied Health Services Research” and “Demonstration Projects”. For details: www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca. Application Deadline: July 12, 2006.

The Society of Graduates in HPME is calling for applications/nominations for FOUR Awards: two Graduate Literary Awards - one for a Health Services Management paper and one for a Health Evaluation or Health Policy paper, a Leadership Award and an Innovation Award. For details: http://www.hpme.utoronto.ca/English/Alumni-Awards.html. Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The OHA’s 2006 Healthcare Awards include: International Best Practices | Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership | The Robo Award | Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education |Call for Submissions are Now Open! All awards will be presented at the OHA HealthAchieve2006 held on November 6 to 8 in Toronto. Visit here

TRANSITIONS
Steven Harrison, Director of Health Policy Ontario Medical Association going to York Community Services (CHC) as Executive Director
Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre is now called Bloorview Kids Rehab
Dr. Patrick P.W. Luke, Surgical Director | Surgical Transplantation London Health Sciences Centre to one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40.
Dr. Brenda Banwell, Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Clinic The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto to one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
Dr. Karim Nader, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, CIHR New Investigator, William Dawson Chair and Associate Professor, Psychology McGill University to one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
Karen Radford, Executive Vice President and President TELUS Quebec and TELUS Partner Solutions TELUS Communications Inc. to one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
Dr. Philip David Zelazo, Professor and Canada Research Chair Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology University of Toronto to one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40

Review all recently reported Transitions here

Do you have appointments or transitions? Send them to transitions@longwoods.com

CAREERS: sent to +20,000 people including Canada’s student nurses.
Director, IT Site Redevelopment - CAMH, Toronto, ON
Senior Manager, Corporate Planning & Project Management - Toronto Rehab, Toronto, ON
Project Director, Medication Management - Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, BC
Project Director, Integrated Cerner Clinical Information System, - Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, BC
Project Director, HRIS/Payroll Project - Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria, BC
Director, Outreach Services - Providence Continuing Care Centre (PCCC)
Research Nurse - Spinal Cord Injury Registry Toronto
Chief Executive Officer - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Program Manager Adult Psychiatry, Acute Assessment and Treatment - Alberta Hospital Edmonton
Challenging Opportunities - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
General Manager Operations - Access Health Abbotsford, BC
Nursing Career Opportunities - MUHC. Montreal
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - June/06 - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers - May/06- (PDF)

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