Transforming Practice in Long-Term Care through Innovative Learning
February 12, 2013


8:00 – 8:30           Registration check-in and breakfast

8:30 – 8:45           Welcoming Remarks from Baycrest Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation Executive Co-Sponsors – David Conn and Paul Katz

8:45 – 9:30           Learning through Simulation in Long-Term Care – Bruce Ballon

9:30 – 10:15         Innovations in Geriatric Education and the Knowledge-to-Practice Process

– David Ryan

10:15 – 10:30      Break

10:30 – 11:45      Concurrent Workshops

1.       What’s in your Toolkit? Interprofessional Tools to Build your Long-Term Care Team

– Faith Boutcher and Lisa Sokoloff

 

2.       Creating a Paradigm Shift Using Montessori Methods: Move the team – Change the Practice

– Gail Elliot

 

3.       Quality Palliative Care in Long-Term Care: Educational Tools for Change – Mary Lou Kelley

11:45 – 12:45      Lunch

12:45 – 2:00        Concurrent Workshops

4.       Excellence in Resident-Centred Care for PSWs: A New Training Program, An Innovative Delivery Model – Susan Brown

 

5.       Do You Know-it-All? Tools to Enhance Interprofessional Communication about Changes in Resident Condition and Health Status – Paul Katz and Jennifer Reguindin

 

6.       Exploration, Discovery and Insight: Using Interactive Arts Based and Design Thinking Activities as Innovative Learning Tools – Bianca Stern

2:00 – 2:15          Break

2:15 – 3:45          Panel Discussion

                               Old Education, New Practice: Enhancing Competencies in the Long-Term Care Workforce – Can it be Done?

                               Kathy McGilton, Veronique Boscart, Paul Katz, Nancy Bowers-Ivanski,

                               Leanne Hughes and Ivy Bourgeault;