Implementing Team Based Models during COVID-19: Tips and Lessons Learned

This presentation will provide an overview of the implementation, evaluation, and lessons learned from Team Based Models during COVID-19. Key roles, team processes, and enablers to support high quality and safe care will be discussed.
Presenters:
Ru Taggar, VP and Chief Nurse, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Tracey DasGupta, Director of Interprofessional Practice, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Dawna Van Boxmeer, Director of Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, London Health Sciences Centre

Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of the principles and core components of Team Based Models during COVID-19.
2. Describe key roles and team development to prepare for implementation of Team Based Models.
3. Share evaluation, lessons learned and team perspectives to sustain safe quality care and enhance system readiness.

We invite all multidisciplinary ICU teams to participate and ask that you please share this invite with your colleagues who are involved with critical care. To further share key learning points highlighted during each webinar, we encourage teams to schedule time to debrief and discuss how the information will inform or be incorporated into practices in your hospital. The webinars will also be recorded and made available on the CCSO website along with supporting documentation.

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About the Ontario Critical Care Clinical Practice Rounds (OC3PR)

This webinar series is developed and informed by the OC3PR committee of critical care providers including Dr. Neill Adhikari, Dr. Bernard Lawless, Dr. David Neilipovitz, Dr. Josée Thériault and Dr. Michael Sullivan. Hosted by CCSO, the rounds will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary critical care teams to come together to share best practices and engage in discussions with their colleagues, across Ontario’s critical care system, to inform the care of critically ill patients with an emphasis on COVID-19 patients. The series will be moderated by Dr. David Neilipovitz, a critical care intensivist in Ottawa with support from CCSO and the OC3PR committee.

Audience: Multidisciplinary critical care teams (including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, administrators and other team members involved in care of critical care patients suspected or diagnosed with COVID-19)

Goal: The goal will be to explore topics using the best available evidence to improve the care provided to critically ill patients.

Topics: The webinar will cover a broad range of topics. The first series running from November 2020 to March 2021 will be focused on COVID-19.

Format: The webinars will be scheduled through Zoom and will include a 20-minute presentation followed by a facilitated Q&A session.