ARNET Nursing Research Luncheon - Meet the Speakers
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Help Us Keep Nurses in Nursing!
Please join us to directly impact health care in Alberta and support nurses continuing education and research.
When: Friday, October 27, doors open at 11:30 AM. Event from noon to 2 PM.
Where: Calgary Petroleum Club 319 5th Avenue S.W. Calgary
This signature fundraising event directly impacts healthcare by supporting Alberta’s Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners in their continuing education and research pursuits. Join us to help nurses prepare to manage unimaginable life and death situations.
Thank you to Johnson Insurance for being our Presenting Sponsor.
Research Presentations Guests will be introduced to some of our Nurse Researchers as they give short presentations on the impact on care of the projects they are working on funded by ARNET. See below for more about the three presentations, speakers and topics.
Lunch A delicious catered lunch will be served so bring your appetite. Let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.
Networking There will be opportunities for networking at the event with our attendees, and presenters.
Our Community Finally, your support of this event will translate directly to ARNET supporting research undertaken by RNs that would otherwise go unfunded and new life-saving interventions that could otherwise go undiscovered.
Preview of Our October 2023 Speakers -
Stay tuned for details on other speakers including
Tammy Patel, NP, Surgical Oncology,
Tom Baker Cancer Center
Leah Foster, Nurse Practitioner
Leah is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with Neurocritical Care at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. She has worked in pediatrics for over 15 years as a registered nurse and a nurse practitioner, with a passion for caring for critically ill children and their families. She works to the full NP scope of practice within her current role; assessing, diagnosing, and treating critically ill patients with neurological concerns in both the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, as well as children admitted to the inpatient units with traumatic brain injuries. Leah’s areas of research interest include parental stress and coping in families of neurocritically ill children, as well as the education, implementation, and evaluation of neurological assessment tools in pediatrics.
Dori-Ann Martin, RN
Dori-Ann is a Pediatric Nurse and the clinical research coordinator with the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. She has worked in pediatrics for over 20 years and has always had a passion for critical care nursing. Recently in the last 3 years she has also become a member of the Neurocritical Care Team at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Dori-Ann’s areas of research interest include consent and assent practices in the critical care environment, patient care practices in the intensive care unit, as well as the education, implementation, and evaluation of neurological assessment tools in pediatrics.
Presentation Topic: Neurological Assessment Tool for Critically Ill Chilldren
Critically ill children are at risk of serious neurological sequelae, and our current assessment tools are not designed to pick up on subtle neurological decline, particularly in patients with developmental delays, or those who are sedated and ventilated in the intensive care unit. We are implementing the SNAP (Serial Neurological Assessment in Pediatrics) tool in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and will be comparing its efficacy to our standard assessment tools, with the goal of detecting neurological decline earlier so that we can intervene sooner and provide the best care, and subsequently improve outcomes, in this population.
Consuelo (Coty) Ong, RN
Coty is a Senior Patient Safety Specialist in the Provincial Patient Safety Learning and Improvement team at AHS (Alberta Health Services). She has been a nurse focusing on pediatrics for over 26 years. In her current role, she aims to bring this passion for safety and quality improvement to a provincial stage through various projects. In 2022, Coty enrolled in the Masters of Precision Health Quality and Safety Leadership Specialization program at the University of Calgary. This program has helped to reinforce and build knowledge and skills needed as a leader. Understanding the complexity of the health care system and how we, as leaders, can influence change is critical to the future of health care.
Presentation Topic: Partnering with Families to Improve Pediatric Patient Safety
The ‘Partnering with Families to Improve Pediatric Patient Safety” project is currently focusing on the use of co-design as a platform that brings together the voices of families, front-line staff, and physicians, with the goals of creating a family centered patient safety definition and shaping our safety work to better address the priorities of patients and families. With a focus on psychological safety as a major foundation for safety, we are in the process of developing and testing solutions that will increase families' feeling of safety, awareness of safety initiatives, and ability to address concerns, beginning with children admitted to the Alberta Children’s Hospital, the Stollery Childrens Hospital and Medicine Hat Regional Hospital.
Tammy Patel, Nurse Practitioner, Surgical Oncology,
Tom Baker Cancer Center
Tammy, a seasoned registered nurse with 19 years of experience, has taken on a new role as a nurse practitioner at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. She started her career in emergency medicine and shifted her focus to oncology and hematology in 2007. With a strong commitment to improving patient care, Tammy's 2021 MN thesis centered on urgent cancer clinics across Canada, designed to address symptoms experienced from cancer treatments and divert patients from busy emergency departments.
Completing her final NP practicum in Hamilton, ON at the NP-led urgent cancer clinic within Juravinski Cancer Centre, Tammy's success led her to pass the NP board certification exam in June and she is now working in surgical oncology, showcasing her dedication to enhancing the field.
Presentation Topic: Urgent Cancer Care Clinics
Tammy will share her research on urgent cancer care clinics across Canada. These clinics help divert patients with cancer away from emergency departments for such symptoms as fever, pain, gastrointestinal concerns, or respiratory illness related to cancer treatments.
