LAUNCH (Toronto) - Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing

Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing

by Tania das Gupta

Co-sponsored by Fernwood Publishing

WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 2009 at 7pm

Toronto Women's Bookstore

73 Harbord Street (southwest corner at Spadina)

We regret our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.

All of our events are trans inclusive.

“Most nurses of colour experience everyday forms of racism, including being infantilized and marginalized. Most reported being “put down,” insulted or degraded because of race/ethnicity/colour. A significant proportion of nurses, non-white and white, report having witnessed an incident where a nurse was treated differently because of his/her race/ethnicity/colour.”

These are only some of the conclusions that author Tania Das Gupta arrived at as a result of her survey of 593 Ontario Nursing Association members. Within the framework of the political economy of health care and drawing from the findings of her research, the author develops an intersectional theoretical framework thathelps us understand how racism happens and provides a base from which nurses and other workers can fight racial harassment.

This book shows how systemic racism persists in the workplace. It shows how fear, lack of support,management collaboration, co-worker harassment and ineffective institutional responses make it difficult for victims of racism to fight back.

About the Author: Tania Das Gupta is an associate professor cross-appointed to the Department of Equity Studies and to Sociology at York University. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research areas include race, gender, class, paid workplaces, diaspora, transnationalism and familyissues. She is the author of Racism and Paid Work (1996).

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CONFERENCE (Maryland) - Researh to Reform: Achieving Health System Change

AHRQ's 2009 Annual Conference - Research to Reform: Achieving Health System Change
September 13-16, 2009
Bethesda, Maryland - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/annlconf09.htm

The conference is designed to bring participants together with leading health care research and policy experts in sessions on issues including quality and safety, delivery of services and improving Americans' health status.

Tracks:
Track A: Health Care Infrastructure
Track B: Organization of How Services Are Delivered
Track C: Health Care Quality and Safety
Track D: Improving Americans' Health Status
Track E: Provider Performance and Payment Reform
Track F: Increasing Patient and Consumer Involvement in Their Care

Sunday, September 13, 2009
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. -
· AHRQ Scientific Review: Keeping Pace with New Trends
· AHRQ Ambulatory Triggers and TIDS ACTION Task Order Steering Committee
· Emergency Preparedness
· Risk Informed Workgroup Meeting

Monday, September 14, 2009
· Track A The Role of Health IT in Measuring and Reducing Disparities
· Track A Emerging Issues in Data Registry Design, Implementation, and Use
· Track B Linking Clinical Practices and Community Resources to Improve Health Care: Innovative Approaches
· Track C Experience in Improving Health Care Decision-Making With Health IT: Impacts on Quality and Safety
· Track C Reducing Hospital-Associated Infections (HAIs)
· Track D Progress of a Learning Network: Working to Reduce Disparities by Improving Access to Care
· Track F Shared Decision-Making: Helping Patients Be Partners in Their Care
· Track F Informing Care Decisions: Emerging Technologies, Scientific Evidence, and Communication
· Track C Research Informing Policy Informing Research: Continuous Quality Improvement and the AHRQ QI
· Track D USPSTF: Potential Impact on Medicare Coverage
· Track F Input Your Data – Output Your Website, a New AHRQ Tool That Transforms Data to Information
· Track A Rating the Evidence: Using GRADE to Develop Clinical Practice Guidelines
· Track A AHRQ's Role in Primary Care Transformation
· Track A Developing Research Infrastructure to Enhance Quality and Reduce Health Care Disparities
· Track A The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): AHRQ's Role in Comparative Effectiveness Research
· Track B Facilitating Chronic Disease Improvement in Primary Care
· Track C Trends and Disparities in Measuring Health Care Efficiency
· Track C Advancing Safety and Quality: Supporting Patient Safety Organizations in Reducing Risks to Patients
· Track C A Simulation Demonstration: Keeping Today’s Patients Safe While Training Tomorrow’s Clinicians
· Track D Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care in Community Hospitals
· Track D Building Patient and Consumer Awareness: Achieving Maximum Exposure for Your Study Findings
· Track F Personal Health Records: What Are They Good For? A Panel Discussion
· Track A Maximizing the Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Role of the DEcIDE Consortia
· Track B Addressing Primary Care Workforce Challenges: A Panel Discussion
· Track C First Do No Harm: Ensuring the Safe and Effective Use of Health IT: A Panel Discussion
· Track C Risk-Informed Interventions: Improving Quality and Reducing Harm
· Track C Developing Research Careers Focused on Improving Health Care Quality
· Track C A Window Into the U.S. Health Care System: Measuring Quality and Implementing Change in Emergency Departments
· Track C Creating Health Information That Americans Can Understand
· Track D AHRQ's Role in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
· Track E Use of Outcome Measures in Payment Reform
· Track F Learning From the Patient's Experience: Opportunities to Improve Patient Safety

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
· Track A Connecting Guidelines, Measures, and Clinical Decision Support Systems. What's New?
· Track A Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement and Comparative Effectiveness Research
· Track B Getting to Meaningful Use of Health IT: Experiences in Redesigning Workflow in the Ambulatory Setting
· Track C Innovative Efforts for Linking Transparency, Patient Safety, and Quality of Care
· Track C Using Collaboratives to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI): A National Implementation Program
· Track C Risk-Informed Evaluation of Patient Safety Training Activities
· Track D Improving Preventive Health Care: Success Stories
· Track E Regional Collaboratives as Catalysts for Quality Reporting and Improvement
· Track F Project RED: Reengineering the Hospital Discharge Process
· Track A Tricks of the Trade: Tools for Evaluating Clinical Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
· Track B What Not to Do in Primary Care: Overuse of Preventive Services
· Track C Overview of AHRQ Resources to Improve Patient Safety
· Track D Generating Quality Headlines in a Change Environment: Media Attention That Leads to Increased Awareness
· Track A Implementing the GRADE Method in Guideline Development: Real-World Experiences
· Track A Are We Making Progress? Measuring the Adoption, Meaningful Use, and Impacts of Health IT
· Track B Reforming Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
· Track B Measuring Inequities in Financing the U.S. Health Care System
· Track B Moving Beyond Institution-Based Service Delivery: Medical Homes and Health 2.0
· Track C Measuring Improvement in Hospital Team Work
· Track C Recent Findings in Patient Safety
· Track C Health Literacy in Action: Design, Development, and Measurement
· Track E Helping Hospitals Help Themselves: Proactive Steps to Avoid a Health Care System "Bailout"
· Track A Building the Health IT Infrastructure: How Do We Get There? A Panel Discussion
· Track A Do Ask, Do Tell: Best Practices in Conflict of Interest Policies for Research, Publishing, and Recommendation-Making
· Track B Adapting Global Innovations in Health Services Delivery
· Track B Redesigning Hospital Care for Quality and Efficiency
· Track B Expanding Insurance Coverage for Children, the Elderly, and the Uninsured: Opportunities and Challenges
· Track C Children's Health Care Quality: Responding to a New National Focus
· Track D Disparities in Health Care: Issues for National Reporting
· Track D Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Are Electronic Health Records Enough for Population Health? A Panel Discussion
· Track F Assessing Patients’ Experiences With Care: Using CAHPS as a Standardized Quality Metric

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
· Track A Assessing the Evidence: Overview of AHRQ's Comparative Effectiveness Guide for Systematic Reviews
· Track A Connecting Communities: Lessons From Six State Health Information Exchange Demonstrations
· Track B Trends and Issues in Access to Care: Implications for Health Care Reform
· Track B Enhancing Patient Safety and Quality With Evidence-Based Health Care Design
· Track C Reducing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms: Interventions That Work
· Track D So You're Doing Quality and Safety Improvement: How Can You Tell Whether It's Working?
· Track D Experiences in Patient-Centered Care: Improving Coordination and Communication Among Patients and Providers
· Track E Electronic Medical Record Systems in Critical Access Hospitals: Anticipated and Realized Benefits
· Track A Assessing the Evidence: Overview of AHRQ's Comparative Effectiveness Guide for Systematic Reviews
· Track B Health Care Quality for Children: New Opportunities for Measurement and Improvement
· Track B Chronic Diseases and Health Care Use and Spending: The Impact of Changes in the Health Care System
· Track C Advancing Safety and Quality: Supporting Patient Safety Organizations in Reducing Risks to Patients
· Track C MRSA: Reducing Infections and Changing Epidemiology, Improving the Health of Populations
· Track C A Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) as an Intervention Strategy
· Track C The Pharmacist's Role in Quality: Is the Profession Ready?
· Track C Collaboration Between Researchers and State Policymakers: A Model for Health Care Improvement
· Track D An Innovative Approach to Women's Health Care Research: Lessons from the California Virtual Lab
· Track E Payment Reform: Cost of Collecting Performance Data in Primary Care

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FORUM (Toronto) - Community Sounding: Research with Pride

COMMUNITY SOUNDING - RESEARCH WITH PRIDE


This open event will take place on June 18, 2009 from 6-8pm at the 519 Church Street Community Centre.

This community sounding will help shape and direct the Research with Pride: A Community Forum that will be hosted in October 2009. This forum will bring together community members, students, academics and researchers to discuss LGBTT2IQQ health and research and we want your input.

We are lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans students and allies at the University of Toronto who are concerned with the health needs of our communities. We come from different disciplines including public health, nursing and health policy and we share the recognition of a gap between LGBTT2IQQ health needs and the health resources our
community actually receives.

We know that certain members of our communities have been exploited, pathologised and made invisible by research that was supposed to be ‘for our own good.’ We also know that the line between researcher and researched is fuzzy and constantly changing. As more LGBTT2IQQ individuals have entered academia and/or engaged in community-based research, some of us are trying to redefine what research into
LGBTT2IQQ health can look like. We want to encourage anyone interested in these issues to come out.

We will be hosting a discussion about:
-The health needs of our communities
-What specific topics we should focus on for our forum
-Your experience with LGBTT2IQQ health research

This is a formal invitation to the Research with Pride Community Sounding.

Date: Thursday June 18, 2009
Time: 6-8pm
Location: 519 Church Street Community Centre, Rm. 313.

*** Refreshments will be provided***

For more information: info[at]researchwithpride.org
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VIDEOCONFERENCE - Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and Health Disparities

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Program for Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO)

Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and Health Disparities

15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 1:30pm - 4:00pm EDT

• Reginald Weaver, D.I.P.(hon), D.H.L.(hon), D.P.S.(hon), Vice President, Education International ; Past President, National Education Association
• Dina C. Castro, M.P.H., Ph.D. , Scientist, UNC FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Nicholas Freudenberg, Dr.P.H. , Distinguished Professor and DPH Director, Program in Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences/City University of New York
• Lillian A. Sparks, J.D., Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
• Howard Lee, M.S.W., Moderator, Executive Director, N.C. Education Cabinet; Past Chair, North Carolina Board of Education (Memoir)

Live, interactive broadcast via Internet (webcast) and c-band satellite from the
Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work.

Presented by UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
the Minority Health Project, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
and many collaborators and cosponsors.

The 15th Annual Videoconference is dedicated to the memory of Dean John B. Turner, 1922-2009, a writer, scholar, teacher, and educational leader who devoted his life to community organization, social activism and social work education.

Please support the Minority Health Project with your endorsement, testimonial, or cosponsorship.

Videoconference information:
http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/
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Women's College Hospital - Consultation

Women’s College Hospital is building a new facility designed to achieve its vision: to be the world’s pre-eminent ambulatory care hospital dedicated to women’s health.

To ensure the success of this initiative, we are speaking with 1,000 women in Ontario about their needs, priorities, perceptions and desires when it comes to hospitals, to healthcare programs, and to the care they receive. The knowledge generated will inspire new thinking and help WCH meet the needs of women (and their families). The more we know, the better WCH will be able to design our building, our programs, and our health care practices.

In May & June 2009, there are three ways women can get involved:

Live Community Forums
– participate in one of our moderated group discussions, where groups of 8-10 women will be invited to gather for lively 90-minute idea-sharing sessions.

Online Community Forums
– participate in one of our online group discussions, where women will be invited to log into an online bulletin board-style community and share their ideas.

Letters of Perspective
– all interested women in Ontario are invited to send an email or a letter describing your vision for the ideal women’s hospital. Think about how it might look, how it might feel to be there, the interactions that might take place, and the care that you might receive.

If you believe that people in your own community may have any unique needs that should be recognized, we hope you will describe these. By community we are referring to people who are similar to you with respect to any or all of the following: religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, household income, health insurance status, etc.

If you are interested, please contact us in any one of the following ways:
Email: shelley.davidson33[at]gmail.com
Phone: 416.699.2995
Mail: WCH 1000 WOMEN 2192 Queen Street East, Suite 62, Toronto ON M4E 1E6
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SEMINAR (Toronto) - Overcoming Racialized Health Disparities: Research and Advocacy Priorities - JUNE 9th, 2009

First Seminar:
Overcoming Racialized Health Disparities: Research and Advocacy Priorities
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

2 to 5pm
CERIS, Room 548
246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON

Presenters:

Grace-Edward Galabuzi
(Associate Professor, Ryerson University)

Ilene Hyman
(Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)

Notisha Massaquoi
(Executive Director, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre)

Kwame McKenzie
(Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

Angela Robertson
(Executive Director, Sistering)

Ruth Wilson and Yogendra B. Shakya
(Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services)

This seminar brings together leading researchers and activists to share findings about growing inequalities that people of color in Canada face, and the health impacts of these inequalities. Drawing on the findings, the seminar will then discuss strategies for bolstering research, collaboration, and advocacy for overcoming racialized health disparities.

For More Information and to RSVP contact

Martha Viveros at aaseminarseries[at]gmail.com or (416) 324-8619 ext 605
or visit: www.researchforchange.ca

This is the first of three seminars organized by Access Alliance in commemoration of its 20th Anniversary this year. The second seminar on ‘Addressing Social Determinants of Newcomer Health: Service and Policy Implications’ will be held in September 2009 and the final seminar titled ‘Doing Research with Racialized and Newcomer communities: Ethics, Equity and Social Justice’ will be held in November 2009.
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