The PoET Project

01/05/2022

Happy New Year from the PoET Team! We're back on January 13th at 1:30 PM for our next 20&10 session on:

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN DECISION MAKING?

This session will walk residents and families through the different roles involved in treatment proposals and consent decisions. We will help to clarify what is required of the clinical team, the resident, and the substitute decision maker.

These short education sessions are free for long-term care homes in Ontario. Each session will provide twenty minutes of education on a single ethics related topic, and ten minutes for Q&A. Registration is required.

To register, visit the link here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CleHUKS0SGiigxujNeUCeQ or register for this event and view all our education opportunities at https://www.poetproject.ca/upcoming-events/

11/15/2021

Join us at 1:30 on November 18th for another resident and family education session from the PoET Team. This weeks topic is:

What If The Resident adn Family Disagree?

This session will describe different scenarios in which residents and family members might disagree about treatment, and will clarify the different decision making roles involved in order to work toward solutions.

These short education sessions are free for residents and families in long term care homes in Ontario. Each session will provide fifteen minutes of education on a single ethics related topic, and five minutes for Q&A.

Registration is required. Please click the link here to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wI6sU3LXTQKpHCqd-ox1ww

10/13/2021

Learn more about our story, get in contact with us, play a game, sign up for our education, or access our various resources and tools at our new website

PoET’s mission is to help Ontario long-term care residents receive the care they want and can benefit from, through alignment with Ontario’s consent obligations.

10/07/2021

Interested in seeing what events and educational opportunities we have to offer? Head over to our events page to learn more

This session will guide staff through the decision making process when an SDM is involved. We will help to clarify the role of each stakeholder including how to identify the substitute decision maker, when they have a role, and what staff’s role is in the decision making process.

10/07/2021

Join us on October 13th from 1:30- 2:00 PM on ZOOM for our 20&10 education session to learn about the ins and outs of decision-making in long-term care according to the Ontario Health Care Consent Act. This month's topic is: What is the Role of the Substitute Decision Maker. Residents and families will learn about what it means for an individual to be a substitute decision maker, how they are identified, and what is the role in the consent process. Join us and bring questions!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kAroMHWFTaaol0yPslEbSw

These short, monthly education sessions are free for residents and families of long-term care homes in Ontario. Each session will provide twenty minutes of education on a single ethics-related topic, and ten minutes for Q&A. Registration is required. To learn more about us, the PoET Project, feel free to visit us at poetproject.ca

08/27/2021

Join us on Wednesday, September 8th for our 20&10 education session to learn about the ins and outs of decision-making in long-term care according to the Ontario Health Care Consent Act. This month's topic is: What is Decision Making Capacity. Residents and families will learn about what it means for an individual to be capable, how capacity maps onto decision making, and how that shapes ethical and legal duties when making decisions. Join us and bring questions!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0jxMtx49S7K5JgDCMURlqQ

These short, monthly education sessions are free for residents and families of long-term care homes in Ontario. Each session will provide twenty minutes of education on a single ethics-related topic, and ten minutes for Q&A. Registration is required. To learn more about us, the PoET Project, feel free to visit us at poetproject.ca!

07/28/2021

The award-winning PoET (Prevention of Error-Based Transfers) Project will be available to interested long-term care homes in the MHLHIN and HNHB LHINs.

Through $1.5 million in funding from Health Canada’s Health Care Policy Contribution Program the PoET Southwest Spread Project will make PoET available to long-term care homes in the Mississauga Halton and Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand Brant LHINs in 2019—2022.

The PoET Southwest Spread Project is a joint venture between William Osler Health System’s Ethics Quality Improvement Lab and McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine.

This project is currently in the last third of its funding and reamining spaces for implementation and evaluation are limited.

For more information, or to express your home's interest in participating, please visit www.poetproject.ca

07/28/2021

The Prevention of Error-Based Transfers (PoET) Project is an award-winning, Ontario-based Ethics Quality Improvement project that aims to reduce consent-related errors in long-term care homes, and the transfers to hospital that can follow. Led by Dr. Jill Oliver and Dr. Paula Chidwick and developed at William Osler Health System’s Ethics Quality Improvement Lab in Brampton, Ontario, PoET has developed through close collaboration with staff, physicians, residents and family members from long-term care.

The project has successfully sustained a 68 per cent reduction in repeated end-of-life transitions of long-term care residents between care settings in the Central West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). The project has been supported by Health Quality Ontario’s IDEAS (Improving & Driving Excellence Across Sectors) Advanced Learning Program Alumni Award and also produced the Accreditation Canada Leading Practice Individualized Summary. It has won multiple awards including Accreditation Canada Leading Practice Award (2016), the Minister's Medal Honour Roll (2017), and the CWLHIN Quality Award Honourable Mention. This project has been made possible through the contribution of Health Canada, who helps to fund spread and evaluation of PoET in the MHLIN and HNHB LHIN and eables collaboration between Osler's Ethics Quality Improvement Lab and McMaster University's Department of Family Medicine.

By participating in PoET, long-term care homes make a commitment to change decision-making habits in their home in order to align with Ontario’s patient-centered Health Care Consent Act.

For more information or to express your home's interest in participating, visit www.poetproject.ca