Choosing Wisely Nova Scotia

04/22/2024

Happy ! Join our upcoming Choosing Wisely Talks webinar presented by the Canadian Medical Association on May 15 at 12 PM ET for the launch of 41 new climate-conscious recommendations spanning 20 clinical specialties. Learn more about mitigating environmental harm without compromising patient care: https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/cwtalks-may2024/

02/23/2024

Registration is now OPEN for the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) Healthcare Improvement Fellowship! A stream is available, providing fellows with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of & de-implementation science to reduce low-value care

Apply by April 26:
https://bit.ly/cquips-cwc-fellowship-2024

08/10/2021

Practising Wisely will be presented virtually on Saturday, September 25, 2021. It is more than a CPD course. It's a framework that will help you implement good health care stewardship & avoid over-medicalization for your patients. http://nscfp.ca/pw

07/30/2021

Interested in learning about how we can promote environmental sustainability through our healthcare choices? A group of UofT medical students at Project Green Healthcare have created an initiative to help healthcare practitioners learn about how we can promote environmental sustainability through the Choosing Wisely Canada family medicine recommendations (https://www.greenchoosingwisely.com/). Participating in this module will help you learn about the environmental impact of our healthcare choices, and tips on how to create a greener healthcare practice. Moreover, all participants who complete the included surveys will be raffled to win one of three $20 gift cards.

Green Choosing Wisely is a tool for family physicians and medical students in Canada to learn about the impacts of healthcare on the environment, and how following the recommendations set by Choosing Wisely Canada™ can improve care while the environment.

04/19/2021

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lets-talk-informatics-one-person-one-record-and-physician-engagement-tickets-151052475019

04/08/2021

https://canadian-nurse.com/en/articles/issues/2021/march-2021/using-blood-wisely-aims-to-decrease-inappropriate-red-blood-cell-transfusion-practice

02/25/2021

The February magazine of Doctors Nova Scotia is available online. Check it out here: https://doctorsns.com/news-events/doctorsns/archive/2021-02-01

02/25/2021

The START Research Program was the foundation of the Using Blood Wisely initiative that Choosing Wisely Canada has been advancing nationally. Here is a great blog to read all about the START Research program: https://www.blood.ca/en/research/our-research-stories/research-education-discovery/start-study-improving-red-blood-cell-hospitals.

02/22/2021

Here is a link to a very informative read on the rates of C Sections in the province of Nova Scotia.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/csections-cape-breton-regional-1.5920797

From 2017 to 2020 about 23 percent of women who fall in the low-risk category had C-sections at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.

02/11/2021

Many Canadians prefer to avoid invasive or overly aggressive life-sustaining measures, particularly at the end of life. But too often, these tests or treatments occur because a patient’s wishes are not known. Why does this gap exist? And how can clinicians and patients ensure these important conversations take place?

Choosing Wisely Talks on March 10 at 12 p.m. ET will explore the barriers to having serious illness conversations. Gain insights and perspectives on how clinicians and patients can engage in earlier and better conversations to inform future care.

The webinar will feature new tools and resources to help get these important conversations started and which are part of Choosing Wisely Canada’s newest initiative ‘Time to Talk’.

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/cwtalks-march2021/

02/03/2021

Choosing Wisely Canada has released five policy ideas to address in the short, medium, and long-term to limit low-value care in Canada during the pandemic and beyond. The document draws on the campaigns’ grassroots clinician leadership and evidence-based recommendations to offer policy ideas. These ideas include ways for decision-makers to use available levers—incentives, system design and investments—to thoughtfully affect the state of low-value care and help ensure that health care resources are used wisely.

Download the report here: https://choosingwiselycanada.org/perspective/not-necessary/

01/28/2021

Using Blood Wisely has developed tools and resources that can support your hospital’s implementation efforts to reduce inappropriate red blood cell transfusions. From guidelines to education modules, these interventions can help ensure your hospital processes reflect best practices.

Join our next webinar for an in-depth look at guidelines, education, and how staff engagement can guide hospitals towards appropriate transfusion practices. Guest speakers will highlight their experiences, answer questions, and facilitate discussion with participants involved in the Using Blood Wisely campaign.

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/ubw-feb16/

01/28/2021

February’s Choosing Wisely Talks will cover how quality improvement approaches to embed practice changes such as measuring key performance data, implementing improvement plans, and assessing impact can be used both to assess practice change and count towards CPD credits.

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/feb-cwtalks/

01/20/2021

Upcoming Talk on Advancing Quality Improvement In Primary Care - 27 January 2021 at 12 pm.

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/now-is-the-time-to-choose-wisely-advancing-quality-improvement-in-primary-care/

01/20/2021

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/irn-jan2021/

01/20/2021

Choosing Wisely Canada just released 11 new recommendations for the management of patients with burn injuries. Check out the recommendations below:

https://choosingwiselycanada.org/burns

01/20/2021

Here is a picture for the history books. One of the first Innu Nurses giving the Covid-19 vaccine to a member of the Sheshatshiu community. Thank-you to all who were a part of making this a reality today. The pandemic has been a long road but we still have a little bit further to go to keep our community safe.

01/19/2021

A good start in Winnipeg! Read more: https://choosingwiselycanada.org/perspective/when-every-drop-counts/