Presentations September 28, 2009

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Keynote Speaker
Enhancing Ethical Climates
Dr. Janet Storch

Session #  4A
Retracing Past Voyages Sailed to Update the Charts of Technology VAC
(This presentation coming soon)
Dave Mac Pherson and Wendy Stevens  

Session # 4B
Hypertension Study (pediatric)
Patricia Gallagher

Session # 4E
Riding the Waves of Patient and Family Values and Beliefs Before and at the End of Life
Linda Nusdorfer

Session # 4F
New Beginnings: Integrating New Graduate Nurses into Paediatric Critical Care
Karen Dryden-Palmer, Ruth Trinier, Sandra Langelaan, Sonia Neri, Rowena Zamora, Angela Lekavicius, Leanne Davidson and Elizabeth Ferguson

L4 Lunch Session
Patient Safety
Dr. Janet Storch

Session # 5A, Presentation # 1
New Dimensions of Care: Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in the Coronary Intensive Care
Brenda Ridley, Shahnaaz Dhalla, Christina Dela Pena, Sue Moore and Lindsay Thorpe

Session # 5B, Presentation # 1
Niagara Early Warning System (NEWS): To Improve Patient Outcomes through Early Recognition and Intervention Prior to a Patient's Decline in Health Status
NEWS Flowsheet
Paul Hesch, Dr. Neil Malcolm, Pat Morka and Jennifer Hansen

Session # 5C
Quality Improvement within Critical Care

         Improvement Charter Template
         *  PDSA Cycles
Tracie Northway, Cathy Mawdsley and Leanne Couves, Canadian ICU Collaborative Faculty

Session # 5D, Presentation # 1
What's a Few Seeds Among Friends
Marie Aue

Session # 5F, Presentation # 2
Navigating Change - A Journey to Create a Learning Culture Through the Integration of Practice and Education in Nine Critical Care Units in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Betty Lou Rock, Louise Allan, Tannis Sidloski, Lissa Currie and Alice Dyna

Session # 6A  Part # 1
Canadian Best Practices: Stroke
Patricia Gallagher

Session # 6A  Part # 2
Canadian Best Practices: Stroke
Patricia Gallagher

Session # 6E
Changes in Beliefs about Death: The Role of Mechanical Ventilation, 1930 - present
Rhonda Matheson and Marion McKay

Session # 6F
Is Intensive Insulin Therapy Still In Vogue?
Brenda Lynn Morgan