When is Canadian Patient Safety Week?
This year, Canadian Patient Safety Week is October 29–November 2, 2012.
What is Canadian Patient Safety Week?
Canadian Patient Safety Week is a national annual campaign started in 2005 to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. Working together, thousands of healthcare professionals, patients, and families help spread the message that good healthcare starts with good communication. Healthcare facilities and health organizations across Canada participate in the week by holding events and activities to increase awareness of patient safety in their local area.
Who is Canadian Patient Safety Week for?
Canadian Patient Safety Week is for everyone involved in the delivery of healthcare in Canada as well as those receiving care, including healthcare professionals and future healthcare professionals, decision makers, patients, residents, clients, and their families.
What is the theme for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
The theme for Canadian Patient Safety Week is Ask. Listen. Talk. The tagline is “Don’t hold back. Good healthcare starts with good communication.” Healthcare professionals, patients, and their families are encouraged to ask questions, listen to the answers, and talk about concerns and ways of improving safety.
Why do we need Canadian Patient Safety Week?
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute believes that every patient experience should be safe. Canadian Patient Safety Week encourages everyone to ask, listen, and talk and raise awareness of patient safety issues and solutions.
Where can I find information about Canadian Patient Safety Week?
Information about Canadian Patient Safety Week is available at asklistentalk.ca. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
If you have a specific question, please feel free to email cpsw@cpsi-icsp.ca.
Why should I register for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
Once you register, you will be added to our email distribution list so you can get updates on the latest news, tools, and resources available to help you during the week and throughout the year. You will also receive a FREE package of posters, tent cards, meal tray placemats and more just by registering! This year you have the option of customizing your posters, meal tray placemats and tent cards with your organizational logo. You can choose to have these items customized in the CPSW registration form.
Is there a cost associated with registering for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
No. Registration for Canadian Patient Safety Week is free; however, you may wish to customize your CPSW posters, tent cards or meal tray placemats for a small fee (this is optional when you register). You can also purchase promotional items for the week in our Online Store. It is up to you what activities and events you plan to do in your organization, facility, or community, giving you control over the costs.
What tools and resources will be available to help us plan for the week?
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute will provide several tools and resources on our website, including PowerPoint templates, email templates, games and quizzes, tips sheets, and more. New tools and resources will be available at asklistentalk.ca starting in September.
Where can I get promotional items for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
All items you receive in your CPSW package, along with several other promotional items such as t-shirts and water bottles, will be available in our Online Store for purchase.
Where can I find ideas on what to do for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
There are several things you can do as an individual or as part of an organization for Canadian Patient Safety Week. Have a display on patient safety at your site, hold brown-bag lunch sessions or patient safety quiz competitions, or simply encourage your colleagues, patients, residents, or clients and their families to ask questions, listen to the answers, and talk about concerns.
This year the Canadian Patient Safety Institute is hosting Canada’s Virtual Forum on Patient Safety & Quality Improvement. Each day during CPSW there will be live webinars on a variety of patient safety and quality improvement topics between 10a.m. and 1pm mountain time. Please note, by registering for CPSW you have not registered for the Virtual Forum. To find out more and to register for the Forum, click here.
For more ideas, visit asklistentalk.ca.
Are there any requirements of our organization if we sign up for Canadian Patient Safety Week?
No. The Canadian Patient Safety Institute does not require you to report back on your involvement in Canadian Patient Safety Week. We do encourage you to share information about what you are planning for the week and to share your successes, including pictures of your displays, events, and activities, by emailing CPSW@cpsi-icsp.ca. You can also submit your information to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute Patient Safety Crosswalk —a one-stop shop of patient safety news and information happening across Canada.
I’ve seen that some organizations have endorsed Canadian Patient Safety Week. What does it mean to endorse?
Your endorsement illustrates your support for Canadian Patient Safety Week and its message – Ask. Listen. Talk. Good healthcare starts with good communication – as well as your organization’s commitment to inspiring extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality.
Endorsing organizations agree to:
Endorsing organizations will be recognized by:
If you wish to endorse Canadian Patient Safety Week, simply email CPSW@cpsi-icsp.ca with the subject: “(Your organization’s full name) endorses Canadian Patient Safety Week”, and include a contact for your organization, including name, title and email address and phone #.