Skill Mix: Work & Role Redesign Conference

Event Date and Time:

December 3, 2009 - 8:00am - 4:30pm

With new demands on healthcare services and increased scrutiny of resource utilization, there continues to be growing interest in skill mix. Skill mix is defined as the mix between various types of providers with different educational backgrounds. Utilizing the ‘right’ mix of health professionals is a major challenge for most health care facilities. Managers continually strive to identify the most effective use of staff to ensure the patient is getting the most appropriate quality and care outcomes.

Location: Radisson Admiral Hotel - Toronto Harbourfront, 249 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario

On Thursday, December 3, 2009 don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from patient care leaders from across the province discussing the importance of appropriate skill mix work and role redesign. Chaired by Anne-Marie Malek, President and CEO of Westpark Healthcare Centre this conference will address:

• Regulated Health Professionals Act (RHPA) and implications for Skill

Mix and Interprofessional Care

• An update on Bill 179

• New Roles & Redesign – National Perspectives from Ontario, Alberta

and Nova Scotia

• Labour Relations

• Horizontal Violence

• Moving Toward 2020 – Transforming Canadian Nursing

Confirmed speakers to date include:

• Dr. Joshua Tepper, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health and

Long-Term Care

• Vanessa Burkoski, Provincial Chief Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health

and Long-Term Care

• Dr. Ginette Rodger, Senior Vice-President, Professional Practice, and

Chief Nursing Executive, The Ottawa Hospital

• Doris Grinspun, Executive Director, Registered Nurses’ Association of

Ontario

• Dianne Martin, Executive Director, Registered Practical Nurses

Association of Ontario

• Michael Villeneuve, Scholar in Resident, Canadian Nurses Association

Thursday December 3rd, 2009

0830h Registration and Continental Breakfast

0900h Welcoming Remarks and Conference Overview

Chair, Anne-Marie Malek

President and CEO

West Park Healthcare Centre

0905h Message from the Ministry of Health

• Perspective of working toward same goal

• Care delivery

• Quality outcomes

• HealthForceOntario

Dr. Joshua Tepper

Assistant Deputy Minister

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

0930h Message from the Nursing Secretariat

Vanessa Burkoski

Provincial Chief Nursing Officer

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

1000h Update from CNO

• National RN Entry to Practice Competencies

• RPN Entry-to-Practice Competencies

Rochelle Atkins

Entry-to-Practice Consultant

College of Nurses of Ontario

Elana Ptack

Entry-to-Practice Consultant

College of Nurses of Ontario

1030h Networking Refreshment Break

1045h Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA)

• Bill 179 Update

• Implications for Skill Mix and Interprofessional Care

Paula May Ponesse

Consultant, Health Care Policy and Practice

1115h Horizontal Violence

• The revalence of horizontal violence experienced by nurses in their first year of practice

• The characteristics of the most distressing incidents experienced

• Determine the consequences, and measure the psychological impact

• Determine the adequacy of training received to manage horizontal violence

Doris Grinspun
Executive Director
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Diane Martin
Executive Director
Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario

1200h Networking Luncheon

1300h Labour Relations Change Management

Sarah Eves (invited)

Hicks Morley

1330h Model of Care Initiative in Nova Scotia

Cindy Cruickshank

Project Co-Lead, Model of Care Initiative in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Department of Health

Acute and Tertiary Care

Additional Speaker to be Announced

1400h Networking Refreshment Break

1415h New Roles & Redesign – A National Perspective

• Lessons learned from implementing a collaborative practice service delivery model on an acute care unit

• Reinstituting the art of care planning; a pivotal tool in collaborative practice

• Coordinated Care Team Model of Care implemented in a step wise progressive manner at TEGH

• Model is a blend of regulated and non-regulated providers working at full scope of practice in a team based model of care

• Model evaluated using the Canadian Nurses Association Framework

• Initial results promising

• Skill mix only one element of organization of care

• Redesign and implementation of an inter-professional model of care - longitudinal study in progress

• Previous implementation of the nursing model - Positive outcomes

Trish Picherack

Project Manager

Health Systems and Workforce Research Unit

Project Coordinator, Workforce Optimization Initiative

Alberta Heath Services

Marla Fryers

Vice President, Programs and Chief Nursing Officer

Toronto East General

Dr. Ginette Rodger

Senior Vice President, Professional Practice and Chief Nursing Executive

The Ottawa Hospital

1515h Moving Toward 2020 – Transforming Canadian Nursing

• Delivering health care in new and innovative ways

• Why do we need to transform health care delivery, and what will it mean for Canadian nursing?

• New ways of practice based on doing different things, using different mixes of human and technological resources

Michael Villeneuve

Scholar in Residence

Canadian Nurses Association

1600h Closing Remarks