SickKids posters - Patient Safety, Cleft Palate, Cultural Competence, A Dialogue with Leaders

One way to get news about the huge number of initiatives at SickKids is through posters on the walls. I am going to add SickKids posters as a tag in the label cloud and continue posting these as I see them.

How do YOU report a safety concern?
Staff can log a patient safety report via a link on the home page of the staff log-in. Staff are encouraged to submit patient safety reports including their name (they also have the option of posting anonymously) so that reports can be followed up in a blame-free manner to best address the safety issue.  

Support for parents of children with cleft palate
I love the specific and useful information this one poster included. While there are surgical fixes for most cleft palates, feeding support before and during the fix is of great concern.

Enhance your Cultural Competence
Publicity for the new Immigrant Support Network that links cultural competency to both family centered care and patient safety.

Your hospital, your voice
An open forum with SickKids President and CEO Mary Jo Haddad and the Executive Team September 28, 2010 from 1-2pm.

Pediatric Capacity and Consent: perspectives from SickKids and Holland Bloorview

Pediatric Capacity and Consent:  What’s legal and what’s right?

Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, Associate Staff, Division of Pediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children and Pediatric Palliative Care Consultant, Max and Beatrice Wolfe Children’s Centre, Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital

with additional commentary by:

Maria McDonald, BComm, LLB, MHSc, Bioethicist, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab

22 September 2010, 3:10 – 4:30 pm

NOTE NEW ADDRESS: Joint Centre for Bioethics,

155 College St., 7^th Floor

Turn right off elevator and enter through Suite 754

           

Abstract:  Infants and young children lack the developmental capacity to make medical decisions owing to an inability to fully appreciate the consequences of their choices.  As such, parents or other recognized legal guardians are charged with this responsibility.  Yet, this widely accepted arrangement generally becomes less relevant for the older child or adolescent.   How should clinicians and parents approach the developing autonomy of these pediatric patients?  Is it possible for a child’s wish to override the decisions of his/her parents?  What about over matters of “life and death”?  This presentation will explore these and other challenges of providing medical care to mature minors. 

Objectives:  Explore the ethical issues involved in pediatric capacity and consent; review the legal positions; provide pathways for assistance for future ethical/legal issues

The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series is an accredited continuing education activity under CFPC and RCPSC programs