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Click here to register for the next wave: January 2011.
Safe Surgery Saves Lives Checklist Action Series
The goal of the Safe Surgery Saves Lives (SSSL) Collective is to bring individuals together who are working on improving surgical safety in Canadian healthcare. The Checklist Action Series is the first program to be launched by the Collective. The Checklist Action Series is a 3 month virtual initiative for Canadian surgical programs, teams and individuals to assist with effective implementation of a surgical checklist.
The SSSL Collective is:
A group of interested people learning together for the purpose of improving surgical safety on a variety of surgical safety topics delivered through a variety of educational programs and customizable virtual learning activities.
The first topic within the Collective will be on checklist implementation in the Operating Room. Future topics could include Venous Thrombo-embolism, Surgical Site Infection and Intra-operative Medication Safety.
Participants can join the topics and programs that fit their organization’s needs and interests. The Collective will bring together leading best practices, experts, local clinicians and change agents to learn and share resources for supporting improvement.
The program will focus on seven key areas of challenge indentified by the front line teams:
- Choosing a checklist and local adaptation processes
- Engaging the OR surgical team
- Modifying workflow for the surgical team
- Measuring success of implementation
- Patient engagement; what are the implications?
- Implementing and spreading across institutions and large systems
- Ultimate challenge of improving safety culture in the Operating Room
People who will benefit most from joining the collective are:
- Surgeons
- Anesthetists
- QI Professionals
- OR Nurses
- Nurse Managers
- Senior Leaders
Any other healthcare professionals who are interested in joining the program
Teams at all stages (thinking about it, started or active implementation) will find value.
There are two ways to join The Collective:
- Register for the first initiative in The Collective - Checklist Action Series program and you will automatically be enrolled into The Collective. You can register electronically by clicking on the “Register Now!” link on the Safe Surgery Saves Lives website.
- If you are not registering for the Checklist Action Series at this time, you may register for any upcoming virtual learning activity(s) and you will automatically be enrolled into The Collective. Watch www.safesurgerysaveslives.ca for more information.
For specific information on the Checklist Action Series please check out the website or contact Tanis Rollefstad at tanis.rollefstad@hqca.ca or (306) 693-0780.
BCPSQC has been working closely on the design of the program to make sure it provides benefit to the surgical quality improvement work in BC. If you would like to discuss the plans with us, please contact Melanie Rathgeber, Quality Leader, BCPSQC at 604-668-8216 or mrathgeber@bcpsqc.ca.
For more information: www.saferhealthcarenow.ca
