Engagement Opportunities - Week of September 19

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Here are this week's new engagement opportunities.

If you don’t see opportunities in your region, it could just be that none were posted in the past seven days. Check the Engagement Opportunities page to see all 21 current opportunities, or contact the Engagement Leader in your region to learn more.

Click on a link below to go directly to the opportunities in your region:

Provincial Opportunities
Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region
Interior Region
Northern Region
Vancouver Island Region
External Opportunities

Or click on the button below to see all currently open opportunities:

                               


Provincial Opportunities

Member, Clinical Resources Committee
Each year in BC, over 1,100 emergency practitioners respond to approximately two million patient visits in 95 emergency departments. You can use your experience as a patient or caregiver to help ensure each one of these patients gets the best care possible!
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: September 28


Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland Region

Guidelines Review, Care for Patients at Risk of Suicide in Acute Psychiatric Settings
Help Providence Health review their guidelines to improve care for patients at risk of suicide in an acute psychiatric hospital setting.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Deadline: September 29

Advisory Group Member, Education for Nurses Interacting with People with Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
Use your personal experience with mental health and substance use to help develop education that will support nurses to provide patient- and family-centred care for people with similar lived experience.
Read more about the opportunity and RSVP
Open to: Patient partners in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Deadline: October 2


Interior Region

No new engagement opportunities were posted in the past seven days; click here to view all currently open opportunities.  


Northern Region

No new engagement opportunities were posted in the past seven days; click here to view all currently open opportunities.


Vancouver Island Region

No new engagement opportunities were posted in the past seven days; click here to view all currently open opportunities.


External Opportunities

Northern Delegate, BC SUPPORT Unit Conference
Are you passionate about research and ensuring that patients are included as key stakeholders in the planning and implementation of health-focused studies?  If so, consider joining the Northern Center at the 2017 BC SUPPORT Unit conference.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners from the Northern region
Deadline: September 20

Learn About the Proposal for Pharmacist Prescribing in BC
The College of Pharmacists of BC is developing a Framework for Pharmacist Prescribing in BC and needs to hear from you to ensure patients have an opportunity to provide input and learn about how pharmacist prescribing in collaborative practice relationships works.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: September 21

Vancouver Coastal Health Local Ethics Committees
Vancouver Coastal Health Ethics Services would like to recruit two patient partners, one to sit on the Disability & Rehab Ethics Committee, and one to sit on the Mental Health & Substance Use Services Ethics Committee. For Disability & Rehab they are seeking a person who has previously gone through a rehab program as an in or out-patient, or a person who has been a patient of George Pearson Centre. For Mental Health & Substance Use, they’re looking for a person who has been treated for Mental Health & Substance Use.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient Partners in the Lower Mainland region
Deadline: September 27

Research, Hereditary Cancer Syndrome
Dr. Yvonne Bombard is a genomics researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto who is conducting public and patient engagement research to advance health technology assessment and health service delivery. She is looking for patients who have experience with a hereditary cancer syndrome (HCS; hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, Lynch Syndrome, LI Fraumeni Disease) to work with on a Genome Canada project (which is the proposal stage and not yet funded) as part of a Patient Advisory Group.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: September 29

Feedback on Caregiver Help Sheet, Mobilizing Knowledge Around the Caregiver Journey with Residential Care
Supporting a parent, spouse, or relative to relocate from home into residential care can be very challenging. A research project at the University of Victoria, in partnership with Fraser Health, is looking to gather feedback on a tool that supports caregivers through three potential stages of the patient and family journey and features questions for caregivers to consider when making a care transition.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: October 1

Committee Member, Canadian Frailty Network
The Canadian Frailty Network is looking for patient partners to join some of their network advisory committees, to ensure the needs of citizens affected by frailty and their family and friend caregivers are heard.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to:
Patient partners across Canada
Deadline: October 2

Member, BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals Parking Stakeholder Advisory Committee
The BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals Parking Stakeholder Advisory Committee is accountable to the Site Redevelopment Transportation and Parking Demand Committee for the communication of ongoing transportation demand management or parking-related issues from various clinical groups and other stakeholders. This is an opportunity for you to provide advice on the allocation of parking stall types; distribution of stalls, and transportation demand management in relation to various site stakeholders and clinical user groups.
Read more about the opportunity and respond
Open to: Patient partners across the province
Deadline: October 6


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