Building Capacity for Practice Change: The New Frontier in Pediatric Pain Management

Sunday, June 25th, 2006 - 08:00 to 16:30
The Chan Centre (Auditorium) at BC Children’s Hospital
4480 Oak Street, Vancouver

Directions to the Chan Centre
Enter BC Children's Hospital site through Gate #1 (off Oak Street), Turn Left
The Chan Centre if part of the Child & Family Research Institute building on your left

Description

• How often do you encounter out-of-date pain management practices with children?
• Do you ever feel discouraged when efforts to change practice seem to go nowhere?
• Would you like to reduce the gap between new knowledge and its application in practice?

This workshop is designed for clinicians and decision-makers who wish to achieve more successful pain management with children and families. The focus is on strategies to improve knowledge uptake by influencing change at levels that range from everyday teams to organizations. The learning approach will include interprofessional problem solving and participation in small groups, and you can expect to leave the session with practical tools and concrete ideas to take back to your professional setting.

Objectives

This day long sessionwill assist you to:

• Learn skills that lead to the application of‘best practices’ andpromote uptake of new knowledge in childhood pain management
• Assess your own approaches and the capacity of your team/organization for integrating new knowledge/pediatric pain management knowledge
• Target key areas in your team/organization where change is needed to promote the uptake of new knowledge
• Identify strategies to improve knowledge uptake, taking best practices and the context into consideration
• Develop an action plan to collaborate with colleagues in your context to implement the strategies

Speakers

• Debra Gordon, RN, MS, APRN , BC, Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
• Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych., Health Systems Scientist
  Community Health Systems Resource Group, The Hospital for Sick Children, Assistant Professor, Depts of Psychiatry & Public Health Sciences University of Toronto
• Neil Schechter, M.D., Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Director, Pain Relief Program; University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics
• Mark Ansermino, MBBCh, MMed (Anaesthesia), MSc (Medical Informatics), FFA(SA), FRCPC, Director of Research for Pediatric Anesthesia, BC's Children's Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, Department of Anesthesia
• Peter Van Stolk, President & CEO, Jones Soda
• Steve Weisman, MD, Jane B. Pettit Chair in Pain Management, Professor, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin

Topics covered

• Practical strategies moving research into practice on an organizational level
• Models and tools to support knowledge transfer:
• Models of change
• Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Cycle
• Just-in-time learning (academic detailing)
• Tools for implementing change
• IM/IT systems
• Communication/motivation/innovation

Program