Virtual Learning Opportunities

What are health indicators? How can they influence health care decisions and policies?

You’ll get the answers in this webinar from John G. Abbott, the CEO of the Health Council of Canada in conversation with Tom Philpott, Executive Director of the Community for Excellence in Health Governance.
 

Webcast:  47 minutes

Learning Objectives:

• To be aware of KT funding opportunities and resources offered by CIHR
• To understand the merit review process used to assess applications to integrated knowledge translation (iKT) funding opportunities
• To learn how to succeed at submitting an iKT proposal

Seminar broadcast September 8, 2011, 1200-1300 ET and will be available as webcast.

Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.
 

Webcast:  14 minutes

The delivery of health care is often complex, and among the new Cochrane Reviews in March 2012 is one in which the research team examined the effects of the centralisation of care for women with gynaecological cancer. The review's lead author, Professor Yin Ling Woo from the University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia describes what they found.

4 minute Podcast

Nurses have taken the lead in creating healthy work environments and the results are amazing – better, safer patient care and happier, healthier nurses. This webinar will connect you with nurses who have implemented change and seen the results firsthand. Learn how you can make change too!

36 minutes

CNA is taking a leadership role in health system transformation! This webinar will update you on CNA’s National Expert Commission and highlights of a submission from CNA’s associate and affiliate members and emerging groups regarding specialty knowledge and practice. Join the national conversation.

54 minutes

The Complementary and Integrative Medicine Consult Service Lecture Series Sponsored by NCCAM Provides NIH Clinical Center Staff with Opportunities to Learn more about How the Integration of Various Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments Can Affect Approaches in the Research and Practice for Medicine

53 minutes

What is safety, and how is it created in complex systems? In this session I share findings from an inquiry conducted at an inner city, tertiary care emergency department in which I explore how practitioners and staff create safety in patient care in everyday practice. I emphasize storying, resilience and practical wisdom as means to enhance patient safety, and point to operational and system implications.

Video Archive

Workshop I: Special Workshop on Knowledge Brokerage and Knowledge Translation:

Webcast

Disseminating evidence-based programs and policies requires that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners take active roles in the process. While their perspectives, systems, and practices vary, their goal remains the same: to reduce the burden of disease and move from "research to reality."

Dialogue on Dissemination: A Practitioner Perspective is the final session in a series of three discussions that engage stakeholders across the dissemination continuum. In this series, researchers, policy makers, and cancer control practitioners highlight promising approaches and address barriers to implementing evidence-based programs and policies.

This month, five practitioners will lead a discussion on the skills public health practitioners need in order to effectively “bridge the gap” from research into practice. Dr. Andrea Caracostis with the HOPE Clinic, Ms. Hope Krebill with the Midwest Cancer Alliance, Ms. Hali Robinett with the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Ms. Ginny Thompson Kirklin with the Houston Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and Ms. Karen Tso with the HOPE Clinic's Phoenix Project will provide a practitioner’s perspective to the dissemination discussion and highlight their experiences using research findings to help change practice.
 

1 hour Webcast

In medicine, there are few certainties when it comes to cause and effect.

Diseases can take a long time to develop and people tend overall to live a long time.

And during their lives they're exposed to an almost endless series of experiences that might alter their risk of developing a particular condition (diet, social class, lifestyle, economics, education and so on).

So, the only way we can be reasonably certain about the risks is to observe vast numbers of people over a long period of time and record what happens to them.

It's costly, it's unbelievably slow but it works and it's the bedrock of medicine.

Without the numerous evidence-based discoveries that have come out of decades of longitudinal science, medicine would be stuck in the dark ages.

In this programme, Dr Ben Goldacre, medic and author of Bad Science explores the past, present and future of longitudinal research.

How did these monumental long term-studies come about?

What have we learned from them and what do we still need to know?

Ben talks to some of the pioneers of epidemiology including Sir Michael Marmot whose famous study on civil servants changed our view of executive stress and Professor Diana Kuh, who now leads the 1946 cohort study.

And he meets the scientists behind a new UK Birth cohort study, starting in 2012 which will track a whole new generation of children, starting from their development in the womb to their final days of life.

18 minutes

Objectives:
The goal of this program is to provide nurses with information about obtaining academic credentials through distance learning. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to —

• Differentiate between classroom-based and distance education.
• Relate how proficiency examinations can be applied to distance learning.
• Identify four personal characteristics of a successful online learner.

1 hour

Objectives:
The goal of this program is to explore the concept of emotional intelligence, describe how it can help nurses enhance their work lives, and provide strategies for developing one’s own emotional intelligence. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —

• Define emotional intelligence and its relevance to nursing.
• Discuss five components of emotional intelligence.
• Describe four strategies for developing emotional intelligence.

1 hour

Online training is available to help you with EBBP. Launch the EBBP Training portal and get started today! To create a new account, simply click the "Register" button at the bottom of the login area. From there, you can access the:

EBBP Process Module – Learn and conduct the steps of the EBBP process with a simulated client and/or community. 

Search for Evidence Module – Learn the strategies for choosing and using EBBP information tools. 

Systematic Review Module – Learn how to evaluate and conduct a Systematic Review. 

Critical Appraisal Module – Learn about the critical appraisal of studies that attempt to determine whether an intervention works. 

Randomized Controlled Trials Module – Learn what randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are and the basics of how to design and conduct them. 

Shared Decision-Making with Individual Clients – Learn about the shared decision-making process as a practitioner working with individual clients. You will work through cases and attempt to balance the best available evidence with client preferences and resources in a clinical setting.

Collaborative Decision-Making with Communities – Learn about the collaborative decision-making process as a public health practitioner working with communities. You will work through a case from the point of view of a public health program manager working in a local health department.

The goal of this social networking continuing education program is to make nurses aware of the risks of social networks as they break down the walls separating our personal and professional lives. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —

• Discuss how Facebook postings can lead to loss of employment.
• Explain two ways using Facebook in the hiring process can pose legal risks for employers.
• Describe three reasons why Facebook pages can lead to not getting hired.

1 hour

The fourth annual Gathering Wisdom for a Shared Journey Forum was held May 24-26 in Richmond BC. At the forum, BC First Nations leaders debated and passed a historic resolution which enables BC First Nations to move forward collectively to take greater control over, and responsibility for, health services.

3 minutes

All nations finance health care from a mix of public and private sources. The way in which the boundary between public and private finance is drawn, however, differs greatly across nations. Watch Dr. Carolyn Tuohy from the University of Toronto discuss her observations in our latest seminar video.

Recorded Mar.11/11 @ UBC's Centre for Health Care Management

1 hour 4 minutes

The goal of this program is to increase awareness of the factors that influence the success of clinical implementations of the electronic health record. After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the major factors that influence successful implementation of a clinical information system
• List ways to assess clinician adoption
• Describe where to find best practices to incorporate into implementation project plans to support clinician adoption and achievement of benefits.

Length:  1 hour

Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, M.S., and Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, are general internists at the White River Junction Veterans Administration Medical Center in Vermont. They also are professors of medicine, and community and family medicine, at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire.

Together, they are working to address two important barriers to health communication: 1) many patients and providers are limited in their ability to interpret medical data, and 2) health messages are often exaggerated or incomplete. Dr. Schwartz and Dr. Woloshin have written extensively on this topic and are co-authors of several books including Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics and Overdiagnosed.
 

Podcast:  27 minutes

Disseminating evidence-based programs and policies requires that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners take active roles in the process. While their perspectives, systems, and practices vary, their goal remains the same: to reduce the burden of disease and move from "research to reality."

The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) is a data collection program created to monitor changes in the rapidly evolving field of health communication. Survey researchers are using the data to understand how adults 18 years and older use different communication channels, including the Internet, to obtain vital health information for themselves and their loved ones. Public health practitioners are using the data to overcome barriers to health information usage across populations and are obtaining the data they need to create more effective communication strategies.

January’s Research to Reality cyber-seminar will look closely at the HINTS survey and results. Presenters and participants will engage in a discussion of how cancer control practitioners can best harness the information the survey collects and use it to guide and evaluate evidence-based programs at the local level.
 

1 hour webcast

The March Research to Reality (R2R) cyber-seminar will be a special live videocast from the 4th Annual NIH Conference on Dissemination and Implementation Science. In the panel session, moderated by the National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Russell Glasgow, four researchers from across the globe will converge to discuss their work and how their organizations are facilitating translation and moving research into practice.

Many patients rank cleanliness as one of the most important aspects of their dealings with the health service. A team of researchers, led by Dinah Gould from City University in London England, have systematically reviewed the evidence on improving hand hygiene compliance among health care workers. Jini Hetherington, from the Cochrane Collaboration Secretariat, describes what they found

3 minutes

As long as human beings provide health care, mistakes and errors will occur. However, health care providers can reduce the likelihood of such mistakes and errors, and limit their impact, by fostering a “culture of safety.” This is an environment that encourages people to speak up about safety concerns, makes it safe to talk about mistakes and errors, and encourages learning from these events. How providers can create and foster a culture of safety is the focus of this course.

Lesson 1: The Power of Speaking Up
Lesson 2: What Is a Culture of Safety?
Lesson 3: How Can You Contribute to a Culture of Safety?

Webcast:  1 hour

Webcast:  1 hour

The OHA's archived webcasts and videoconferences allow for busy health care professionals to learn from industry leaders and subject experts through the convenience of their own computers.

The only technical requirements to view archived events is high-speed internet access and computer speakers (for audio).

For the best viewer experience, we recommend installing Microsoft SilverLight (click here to download Silverlight).

1 hour 13 minutes

Dr. Stephen Duckett, Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

49 minutes

Mark Hyman discusses a "systems" approach to health care.

Webcast:  19 minutes

Meta-analysis is a powerful technique for synthesizing the results of multiple studies into a single conclusion. It yields objective, empirical, and largely value-neutral evidence; using meta-analysis, evaluators can estimate the central tendency of study outcomes, test the pattern of variations in outcomes, and estimate the overall effects of and relationships between variables. This Eval Cafe session will focus on providing an overview of this tool, including examples and resources for audience members who are interested in finding out how to conduct their own meta-analyses.

Webcast:  57 minutes

Webcast:

On September 27, 2010, this 90-minute session introduced Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User’s Guide: 2nd Edition, via live Webcast from the AHRQ 2010 Annual Conference. Following the presentations, participants discussed potential topics for future updates of this handbook.

• View the streaming media presentation of the Webcast with open captions (Flash)
• For help viewing this video presentation, visit Viewers, Players and Plug-insDownload the Powerpoint file (2.3 MB)
• View the online transcript or download the PDF (172 kB)

The goal of this program is to provide attendees with information about educating the next generation of nurses to practice in an informatics intensive healthcare environment. After attending this webinar, participants will be able to —

• Identify curriculum resources to facilitate the integration of informatics into the nursing curriculum
• Analyze your role and responsibility in becoming knowledgeable about health information technology
• Discover faculty development opportunities to prepare faculty for this critical role

Length:  1 hour

What’s it going to take for the health care system to take full advantage of the potential of nurses – and for nurses to realize their full potential? These twin questions are not new to the nursing profession, or to policy makers. Both groups have been wrestling for years to find the right levers to increase not just the ranks of RNs, but their skills and recognition as key members of health care teams. Although this has led to some successes and improvements, the solutions haven’t kept up with demands. Health care reform has only intensified the need to sharpen strategies, especially as nurses have the potential to play a critical role in creating a more patient-centered, integrated delivery system.

57 minutes

The 33-minute video explains the major components of a respiratory protection program including fit-testing, medical evaluations, training and maintenance. The video also discusses the difference between respirators and surgical masks and features a segment on common respiratory hazards found in health care settings, including airborne infectious agents that cause diseases such as tuberculosis, pandemic influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), chicken pox and measles.

The Medicine: Mind the Gap series explores a wide range of issues at the intersection of research, evidence, and clinical practice—especially areas in which conventional wisdom may lead us astray.

Susannah Fox, Associate Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, will discuss how changes in the health communications landscape have impacted how people search for healthcare information.

99 minutes

For over five years, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority have been working together to increase access for nurses to Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). Using Telehealth many different topics are presented by clinical educators and specialists to nurses “tuning in” from other communities. Up to twenty sites may attend, from all six health authorities and the Yukon. Presentations are 40-45 minutes, with time for questions from the participating locations.

Hosted on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, Telehealth CNE sessions are for one hour beginning at 12:45PM PT. Topics range widely and have included Pediatric Pain Management, Sexually Transmitted Infections, RN Selfcare, Rashes in Children, Managing Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the ER and at Home, among others. Beginning in January 2011, sessions are recorded for access via the Internet for those who wish to review part or all of a presentation, or for those unable to attend the live event.

To view the recorded sessions please follow these instructions:

Access the PHSA Mediasite Catalogue

•Click “sort by name”
•Click on Learning & Development folder (left hand side bar)
•Click on Continuing Nursing Education folder
You should now see all recorded CNE sessions available for viewing
 

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

AHRQ Director of Health Information Technology Dr. Jon White discusses how clinical decision support tools can help reduce the risk of medical errors and improve the overall quality of care delivery.
 

You have a lot to say about the work you do. But getting published is another story. What journals should you target? What do editors look for? Is it even possible for a student to publish independently? 

In this free audio conference, Frank Davidoff, IHI’s executive editor, and David Stevens, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care, demystify the publication process for students. You’ll learn:

• How publication works, from start to finish
• The most common reasons editors accept and reject submissions
• The types of student articles that are most likely to be published
• Five major obstacles to writing and publishing – and how to overcome them

1 hour

When Toyota began to stumble in the late summer and fall of 2009 because of serious safety problems, the world gasped. And understandably so. Faulty gas pedals and brake systems were the last things anyone expected from the world’s number one car maker. Indeed, the high standards for quality and safety that revolutionized auto manufacturing and that inspired many other industries, health care included, to learn from Toyota, were viewed as indelible. Not any more. That’s probably a good thing in the long run, say those who’ve followed the company over the years; it’s an unfortunate turn of events, but an important wake-up call that anyone committed to sustaining gains over the long run can and must learn from.

59 minutes

Ann Marie Kimball, professor of epidemiology and health services, sits down to talk about epidemics, SARS, globalization, global health, and her new book "Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade."

18 minutes

In this podcast, Erin Edgerton, CDC, and Craig Lefebvre, George Washington University discuss social media, blogs, and mobile technologies and how they can be used for public health.

18:12 minutes

What can alumni who are leaders of organizations do to create healthy work environments? The hallmarks of a healthy work environment include skilled communication, true collaboration, and meaningful recognition. Dorrie Fontaine, Dean of the School of Nursing, explores what a universal healthy work environment can be and how best to achieve it in the challenging workplaces of today.

The mission of IRISS is to promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland’s social services by enhancing the capacity and capability of the social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge & research for service innovation & improvement.

Vision: A high quality, continually improving social services sector renowned for its effective use of knowledge and research-based innovation.

Podcast: Innovative Approaches to Creating the Learning Organisation - Euan Semple

63:59 minutes

Audio and some accompanying slides from the 2010 CHSPR conference: Lost in Knowledge Translation? Innovations in Health Human Resources

Free i-Tunes podcasts: The Nursing Show features news, tips and tricks, medication information, nursing career interviews, education and commentary for nurses, nurse students, and anyone interested in general medical information.

If you feel overwhelmed by printed materials and are wondering what evidence there is that these are an effective educational tool, here is Anna Farmer from the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science in Edmonton, Canada to describe the findings of a Cochrane review of the topic.

3 minutes

46 minutes

RefWorks has created language-specific sites to assist our end-users around the world with localized support and training documentation. The sites provide a variety of material developed by RefWorks as well as by subscribing organizations who have graciously agreed to share their resources. The types of materials found on these sites will vary to include such items as Quick Start Guides, tutorials, help documentation and our webinar schedule. Our International sites helps you get the most out of RefWorks.

Recorded sessions

• RefWorks in 15 Minutes
• Creating Non-English and Multi-Language Bibliographies
• Importing EndNote Libraries into RefWorks
• Converting a Reference Manager Database to RefWorks
• Converting a Procite Database to RefWorks
• RefAware
• Four Ways to Create Bibliographies in RefWorks
• RefWorks Advanced Features
• RefMobile
• Installing RefGrab-It
• Using RefGrab-It
• Six Ways to Import Information into RefWorks
   

In the first in our series of lectures being held following the launch of the Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS, Sir Richard Sykes, former Chairman of NHS London, looks at the leadership challenges facing the NHS from a business perspective.

Webcast:  48 minutes

Fall 2010 Webinar Series
 

Practice guideline development first steps: From topic selection to literature searching

Fall 2010 Webinar Series

Practice guideline development first steps: From topic selection to literature searching

We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.

Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology
 

12 minute Webcast

Hélène Sabourin, RN, BScN, MHA, The Canadian Nurses Foundation - La Fondation des infirmières et infirmiers du Canada

Questions answered:

• Do you know of any technology that easily allows you to find what research has been done in a particular area, or grants are given out?
• Have you ever applied for awards or grants? What resources do you feel you need in order to feel comfortable submitting for a research grant?

17:15 Minutes

Objectives:
The goal of this program is to provide nurses with information about changes in nursing education that are influencing how today’s students are being prepared for practice. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —

* Describe four innovative teaching strategies that nurse educators use to meet the learning needs of diverse groups of students.
* Identify trends in healthcare and education that challenge nurse educators to prepare students for a changing RN role.
* Discuss the rewards and challenges of being a nursing faculty member.

1 hour
 

Research has shown that some physical and mental changes do occur as people age. How do these changes affect people and the jobs they do?

In this free webinar, Emma Ashurst from CCOHS will discuss what has been learned from research studies and demonstrate how specific solutions and practices can prevent these changes from becoming hindrances in the workplace.

This webinar will review aging from an occupational health and safety perspective and examine different work situations (carrying heavy loads, computer work, visual environment, chemical exposures, etc), explore the possible impact on older workers and discuss solutions on how to keep everyone safe and free of injury.

Length: 40 minutes

In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the IOM launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed the Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing. Through its deliberations, the committee developed four key messages:

• Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training.
• Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression.
• Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States.
• Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure.

View the video clips:
St. Joseph's Health System: new parts & players join to offer a continuum of care across two LHINs (1:43 min)

Easing patient transitions by linking institutional & community care back to primary care (1:42 min)

Future funding experiments planned: follow the patient, bundle services, & tie funding to results (3:03 min)

Incenting providers to reduce costs & add "highest value" to improve care (3:42 min)

Empowering CCACs to drive innovation - experimentation is a good thing (2:07 min)

Integration successes to date @ St. Joseph's Health System: a focus on moving patients back to home or to the right level of care (4:58 min)

Key role of IT in driving integration, self-management & quality improvement (3:09 min)

Success stories to date: a focus on patient dignity & respect (4:48 min)

The importance of sharing success to drive a culture of excellence (1:53 min)
 

An estimated 16 million Canadians live with some chronic condition. These Canadians and the families and friends who care for them need a healthcare system that meets all of their needs. Some people’s needs are relatively simple, involving the management of a single chronic condition, while other people’s needs are increasingly complex, requiring the management of several chronic conditions concurrently. At the same time, there are huge concurrent demands that challenge the sustainability of our healthcare system.

1 hour

This conference took place on September 22, 2009, at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The conference explored how interactive media can be an effective, clinically significant resource for transforming science into practice through improved communication and decisionmaking. The papers presented at the conference will be peer reviewed and submitted for publication at a later date. As a result, they may differ from these presentations.

These presentations are available in a streaming video and slide format. A close captions viewing option is also available. For help viewing these proceedings, please see the Viewers, Players, and Plug-ins page.

Presentations:

• Interactive Media for Diabetes Self-Management: Issues in Maximizing Public Health Impact
• Use of Handheld Devices for Point of Care Decision Support
• Investing in Deliberation: Defining and Developing Decision Support Interventions for People Facing Difficult Health Decisions
• Web-based Cancer Communication and Decision-Making Systems: Connecting Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians for Improved Health Outcomes
• Asynchronous and Wiki Communication Within an Integrated Electronic Medical Record System to Coordinate Care for Complex Patients

A joint project by The Change Foundation & Health Strategy Innovation Cell
Interview: Cathy Fooks, President & CEO - The Change Foundation
 

10:09 min

Cyber Seminar

The goal of this program is to provide nurses with information about lateral violence, its consequences, and strategies to end it. After attending this webinar, participants will be able to —

• Identify the most frequent forms of nurse-to-nurse violence.
• List at least six strategies to end nurse-to-nurse hostility.
• Discuss the effects of nurse-to-nurse hostility.
• Discuss strategies to support new nurses.
• Explain the relationship between Oppression Theory and nurse-to-nurse hostility.
   

1 hour

Think you’re powerless because you’re a student? Think again. In this video, four students explain how they helped out with real-life improvement projects – and turned their experience into presentations and publications.

[Presented at the 20th Annual IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, December 10, 2009.]

A good abstract is like a good ad. You’ve got just a minute or two to convince readers that your paper is worth their time. But all too often, authors give their titles and abstracts short shrift.

In this free, hour-long web conference, David P. Stevens, editor of the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care, explains the nuts and bolts of writing a great title and abstract. You’ll learn:

• What every abstract should contain
• What makes some abstracts compelling and others just average
• Why “Snakes on a Plane” is a better title than "There will be Blood"

1 hour

Dr. Sandra Robinson has made a career of studying the dark side of human behaviour in organizations. Her studies, which were conducted in a variety of health care and non-health care settings, focus on bullying, aggression and ostracism behaviour and how those behaviours influence co-workers.

One of Sandra’s main conclusions was that negative behaviours by coworkers has a greater influence on workers’ attitudes and behaviours than management behaviours. Co-workers influence each other through the ways they treat each other in their daily interactions at work and whether we recognize it or not, these interactions have a profound effect on our engagement at work and our ability to do our jobs.

56 minutes

UC Berkeley free online course via YouTube webcasts: "Introduction to Probability and Statistics". For students with mathematical background who wish to acquire basic concepts. Relative frequencies, discrete probability, random variables, expectation. Testing hypotheses. Estimation. Illustrations from various fields.

34 videos in Lecture series

Watch the dynamic keynote presentation from the first day of CCOHS Forum III: Leading Workplace Change.

Leading is easy when things are smooth. It’s when the going gets tough that our leadership is truly tested — and most needed. How we respond — as Leaders, Followers, or Wallowers — determines our personal effectiveness and organizational culture.

Strong leaders navigate toward high performing teams and organizations by balancing the discipline of systems, processes, and technical skills on a foundation of effective people leadership.

1 hour

Aircraft carriers, electrical power grids, and wildland firefighting, although seemingly different, are exemplars of high reliability organizations (HROs) – organizations that have the potential for catastrophic failure, yet engage in nearly error-free performance. HROs commit to safety at the highest level and adopt a special approach to its pursuit.

High reliability organizing has been studied and discussed for some time in other industries and is receiving increasing attention in healthcare. The essence of high reliability organizing is a set of practices that enable organizations to focus attention on emergent problems and to deploy the right set of resources to address those problems. HROs behave in ways that sometimes seem counterintuitive – they don’t try and hide failures but rather celebrate them as windows into the health of the system. HROs also seek out problems, avoid focusing on just one aspect of work, are able to see how all the parts of work fit together, expect unexpected events and develop the capability to manage them, and defer decision making down to local front-line experts who are empowered to solve problems. Given that health care is also a setting where error has potentially catastrophic consequences, high reliability organizing practices hold promise for improving reliability and safety in health care.
 

58 minutes

The purpose of this program is to provide healthcare professionals with education about the diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, and psychosocial effects of prostate cancer to healthcare providers. Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• List five risk factors for prostate cancer
• Describe the diagnostic tests used in prostate cancer
• List three treatment options for prostate cancer
• List four nursing goals for care of the hospitalized prostate cancer patient
• List possible psychosocial behaviors related to patients with prostate cancer

Social media use is ubiquitous, but inappropriate posts by nurses have resulted in licensure and legal repercussions. NCSBN has developed guidelines for nurses and nursing students for using social media responsibly. Key points of these guidelines are summarized, along with dramatization of potential scenarios of inappropriate social media use.
 

4 minutes

The Model for Improvement is a simple, yet powerful approach to achieving rapid and significant improvements in care delivery and outcomes. It has been used very successfully by hundreds of health care organizations in many countries to improve many different health care processes and outcomes.

IHI is pleased to offer An Introduction to the Model for Improvement, an On Demand presentation featuring IHI’s Executive Director of Performance Improvement, Robert Lloyd, PhD. 

Dr. Lloyd’s presentation builds on a foundation of applied science, focusing on how three key questions can help drive your quality improvement work:

• What are we trying to accomplish?
• How will we know that a change is an improvement?
• What change can we make that will result in improvement?

You will also learn how to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle to conduct rapid tests of change on a small scale, learn from these tests, and then apply that learning to the next cycle of testing. 

Finally, the sequence for improvement will be described and the steps to move from testing to implementing to spreading will be addressed. The presentation will also help participants set up a series of exercises to test their team’s knowledge and skills related to the Model for Improvement and PDSA cycles.

63:00 minutes

Successful measurement is a cornerstone of successful improvement. How do you know if the changes you are making are leading to improvement? Simple: you measure.

IHI is pleased to offer Building Skills in Data Collection and Understanding Variation, an On Demand presentation featuring IHI’s Executive Director of Performance Improvement, Robert Lloyd, PhD. This presentation is designed to help teams successfully manage the milestones along the quality measurement journey.

The first part of Dr. Lloyd’s presentation reviews the differences between measurement for improvement, judgment and research, and outlines the critical milestones needed for a successful measurement journey. Issues related to stratification and sampling are also highlighted.

The second part focuses on understanding variation — both conceptually and statistically. Dr. Lloyd will help participants understand the differences between static and dynamic approaches to statistical analysis and how to evaluate data variation. Common and special causes of variation will also be described and demonstrated.

62:00 minutes

This program introduces concepts in cost estimation, including cost methods and estimating labor costs. The VA Health Economics Resource Center average cost datasets for medical and surgical hospitalizations are used as an example.

56:20 Minutes

In the second half of this two-part program, continue to learn about dangers in the workplace. University of Washington School of Medicine professors Drs. Joann G. Elmore, Hugh M. Foy, Christopher H. Allan and Matthew Keifer explain how workplace hazards are identified and what solutions are available to prevent or reduce injuries and health concerns. Also explore the most common of occupational injuries – carpal tunnel syndrome – and its related disorders.

43:14 Minutes

Learn how patient safety is advanced through simulation education, surgical interventions and practicing for emergency situations. Dr. Mika Sinanan examines the challenges involved in responding to patients when medical errors happen, such as medical equipment failure, root cause analysis, human factors, usability, and physician error. 'The Colleges', a program which focuses on teaching patient communication at the bedside, is also featured.

41:05 Minutes

Instructors make recommendations for estimating labor costs, such as using job categories found in VA data and adjusting for the variation in VA salaries.

53:11 Minutes

Safer Healthcare Now! is happy to provide session recordings for video streaming and documents for download from each Falls Prevention Virtual Learning Collaborative session. Below is a list of all available sessions for video streaming and documents for downloading. Recordings and documents are currently grouped by session.

Infection control in healthcare facilities is critical because of the potential role they can play in propagating and controlling emerging respiratory infections. This talk looks at infection control issues for hospitals related to avian influenza.

56:33 Minutes

This program provides an introduction to the principles and methods of economic evaluation in health care, such as definitions, economic evaluation methods, standards and accepted practices.

58:16 Minutes

Join CCOHS as we present Donna Hardaker, Mental Health Works certified trainer for York Region Canadian Mental Health Association. She will educate webinar participants on mental health protective factors and on how to take care of both ourselves and others in the workplace. You will learn to recognize risk factors including conflicting tasks, work overload and unreasonable work pace. Discover how skill discretion, decision authority, perceived fairness and leveraging your workplace's social support network could help your teams build a more mentally healthy workplace.

Donna Hardaker works at the Canadian Mental Health Association, York Region Branch where she delivers the award-winning Mental Health Works program. She co-developed the training workshops, drawing on her personal experience of having a mental illness while trying to stay productive at work. She has a background in adult education, mental health policy, communication skills training and human resources management.

This webinar was recorded on May 7, 2009 as part of North American Occupational Safety and Health Week 2009.

Length: 1 hour

This program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, confidence intervals and descriptive statistics.

59:16 Minutes

The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) recognizes the importance of quality practice environments in which nurses work to deliver expert health care services to Manitobans. Research has shown a direct correlation between the quality of nurses’ practice environments and productivity, recruitment and retention, job satisfaction, sick time usage and most importantly, the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. As such, in order to assist nurses in working together with stakeholders to advocate for, and achieve quality practice environments, CRNM has implemented a quality practice initiative called the Quality Practice Environment Initiative (QPEI).

14:17 Minutes

CCOHS created a Twitter account in November 2008. Join Krista Travers, Marketing Communications Officer at CCOHS, as she recounts the lessons learned along the way, and shares tips on how to get comfortable and efficient when using Twitter.

You will learn:

How to get started on Twitter
Do’s and don’ts when writing tweets
Time-saving tools
How to promote health and safety
This webinar was recorded on May 4, 2010.

Who should attend

Anyone with a responsibility for and/or interest in promoting workplace health, safety, and wellness as well as anyone interested in learning more about Twitter – what it is and how it can be used.

Length: 30 minutes

The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) recognizes the importance of quality practice environments in which nurses work to deliver expert health care services to Manitobans. Research has shown a direct correlation between the quality of nurses’ practice environments and productivity, recruitment and retention, job satisfaction, sick time usage and most importantly, the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. As such, in order to assist nurses in working together with stakeholders to advocate for, and achieve quality practice environments, CRNM has implemented a quality practice initiative called the Quality Practice Environment Initiative (QPEI).

8:08 Minutes

Workplace violence is a serious issue that affects all business sectors and occupations and the safety and security of every employee and employer. This course is offered FREE of charge by CCOHS to promote the awareness of this very important issue, and as a precursor to the other Workplace Violence e-courses: Recognize the Risk and Take Action, and Establish a Prevention Program.

Topics include:

What is workplace violence?
Behaviours associated with workplace violence
Sources of violent behaviour in the workplace
Workplace violence prevention legislation

Upon completion of this course you will know:

Who is affected by workplace violence
Workplace violence is an important workplace issue
The broad definition of workplace violence with respect to the types of behaviours and the source of the behaviour
The legal obligation of employers have to protect employees from workplace violence

20 minutes

Objectives:

The purpose of this program is to provide nurses with techniques to aid in the reduction and management of stress so they can continue to lead productive and energized lives. After attending this webinar, participants will be able to

• Identify the techniques for stress reduction and relaxation.
• List three types of support systems available.
• Discuss three types of healing therapies.

1 hour 12 minutes

CEP Fall 2011 Guideline Development Webinars
 

CEP Fall 2011 Guideline Development Webinars
 

This free series of calls features researchers and decision makers as they explore existing evidence on topics of mutual interest and assess how this information can be used to improve the delivery of health services in Canada.

As you listen to the featured speakers, you can follow the presentation on your computer using GoTo webinar technology. Every Researcher on Call session provides an opportunity for participants to ask questions that will help them consider the benefits of using research results for improving their practice.

In its 2004 report, "Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion," the Institute of Medicine defined health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, communicate, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” Seven years later, the field of health literacy has exploded into something far beyond this most basic description. There are legions of health literacy advocates and initiatives; innovative, creative, and culturally attuned resources; a much greater emphasis on empowerment and engagement rather than mere compliance; and a far greater understanding — helped along by research — of the health consequences of low health literacy.

Podcast

Dr. Alex Bielak welcomed participants to the workshop and introduced Dr. Andrew Campbell, the keynote speaker. Campbell’s captivating address spanned an array of practical experiences in knowledge translation and brokering, citing Land and Water Australia as a case study. The keynote gave an international dimension to the workshop, with relevance to the Canadian landscape, addressing concerns such as:

• How can applied research investors and managers create conducive conditions for research that is influential?
• How can research funders, brokers and communicators add value, without being overly prescriptive or stifling the creativity and serendipity that often characterizes the best scientific inquiry and discovery?
• In particular, what knowledge brokering and translation strategies work at the rarely elegant interface between science and policy?

1 hour 13 minutes

In round two of our double episode on research proposals we talk to Greg Fealy, senior lecturer in Indonesian Politics at the ANU School of Culture, History and Language. Greg talks about keeping it short and sweet, and gives some advice to students who are trying to win over scholarship and admission panels with a proposal

7:11 minutes