Supplementary Modules
Building Community Partnerships
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain the range of purposes for partnership building
- Identify the levels of partnerships and relate them to their roles as primary health care providers
- Identify existing and new potential partners, based on the determinants of health
- Describe the critical factors that contribute to a successful partnership
Chronic Disease Self-Management Support
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand key self-management and self-management support concepts and principles
- Describe the provincially supported and available chronic disease self-management programs
- Describe the “5 A’s” approach as a strategy to support patients with chronic disease self-management
- Apply the three question interview as a technique for assessing patients’ readiness to change
- Reflect on their current approach to working with patients living with chronic disease
- Identify specific actions to improve chronic disease self-management support in their practice setting
Generations and Learning Styles at Work
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain self-awareness using the Johari Window Model
- Identify the sensory, social and cognitive components of learning styles
- Recognize the dominant characteristics of an individual’s learning style
- Describe strategies for adapting to different learning styles
- Identify the most critical generational influences for Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials
- Identify potential workplace motivators and irritants for Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials
- Use disclosure and invite feedback to increase self-awareness
Introduction to Cultural Competence
Session 1
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explore concepts of similarity and difference
- Describe behaviours that build safety, inclusion and participation in learning groups
- Explore the concept of culture
- Identify ways that culture can influence health and care
- State the importance of culture, language and health literacy in health communication
- Illustrate the concepts of bias and stereotyping and their influence on health
- Reflect on aspects of cultural self-identity
- Share ways that individuals and systems can integrate culture in care
- Share cultural competence guidelines
Session 2
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explore reflections from Session 1
- Review ground rules
- Identify elements of power and privilege
- Share actions that build equity in health systems
- Define cultural knowledge
- Identify the need for cultural knowledge
- State sources of cultural knowledge
- Share approaches for clinical cultural competence
- Identify district and province-wide initiatives and resources that support cultural competence
- Refer to individual and/or organizational assessment tools
- Identify individual and organizational next steps
- Reflect on learnings
Program Planning & Evaluation
Session 1
- Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the importance of program planning
- Describe the key steps in program planning
- Create a program profile
- Discuss strategies for determining appropriate program activities
- Create a program logic model
- Describe the key components of an action plan
- Identify the importance of evaluation
- Describe Steps 1 through 3 in the program evaluation process
- Describe the key evaluation approaches
- Create a basic evaluation matrix
Session 2
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the importance of program planning
- Describe the key steps in program planning
- Create a program profile
- Discuss strategies for determining appropriate program activities
- Create a program logic model
- Describe the key components of an action plan
- Identify the importance of evaluation
- Describe Steps 1 through 3 in the program evaluation process
- Describe the key evaluation approaches
- Create a basic evaluation matrix
Session 3
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the importance of evaluation
- Describe Steps 1 through 3 in the program evaluation process
- Describe the key evaluation approaches
- Create a basic evaluation matrix
Understanding Primary Health Care
Session 1
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognize what primary health care is and how it applies to their work.
- Identify and define common primary health care terminology.
- Understand the context of primary health care within Nova Scotia.
Session 2
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Define population health as it relates to primary health care.
- Explain the linkages between population health, primary health care and primary care.
- Understand how population health and a focus on the determinants of health help to contribute to comprehensive primary health care.
- Reflect on their team’s approach to applying the social determinants of health in their primary health care setting.
- Understand health promotion as a principle of primary health care.
- Apply health promotion strategies and principles within primary health care services.