Monday, August 23, 2010

Interprofessional online community set up - SOS

After reading this week's material, I have decided on my topic for the mini conference - 'How to set up an interprofessional online community within a health care facility.' I would like to be a network weaver and build a collaborative, innovative online team of maternity care health professionals who strive for excellence, positive collaboration and engage in critical analysis of care for women, their families and the health professionals themselves. Therefore I am putting out an SOS for anyone who has attempted to or done this successfully before. It doesn't necessarily need to be in a health care facility.

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  1. I have sent out a tweet about this but you may have to do more networking before you get a response :)

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  2. would love to help, Jillian, but I tend to be a "Lone Ranger". Gloria Lemay in Vancouver BC
    http://www.glorialemay.com/blog

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  3. Hi Gloria, I'm not sure I understand your comment so just to ensure that I am not barking up the wrong tree so to speak, do you mean that you are a lone ranger from the point of view that you have set up an online forum on your own and not in a health facility?

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  4. HI Sarah, I am meeting with the skills development officer tommorrow at my hospital and she tells me that apparently the maternity unit is getting their own website up and running in 2 weeks time so the opportunity may exist for me to use this platform. On one hand I am pleased for ease of access but on the other it will mean that I may be stifled by QLD health regulations in many areas and also I don't know if people want to do this sort of thing in work time as I prefer to go home and be able to think about it. You usually can't access QLD health sites at home. So I'm in 2 minds but will find out more tommorrow. Keep you posted.

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  5. I think this is quite a nice challenge for you, Jillian because this will really get you to think about soem of those questions posed in this week's schedule. Look forward to seeing how you go with this. BTW, have you linked with Malcom Lewis - he may have ideas as he also works for Queensland Health.

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  6. I actually skyped for over an hour with Malcolm Lewis on Friday. I will need to do a bit more investigation and networking before I decide which platform I am going to use and Malcolm is sending me some contacts to speak to.

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