healthcare provider, patient/resident and essential care partner having a safety conversation

Resources for patients, residents, clients and caregivers

When healthcare workers, patients, residents, clients and caregivers – who are also known as essential care partners – prioritize talking about safety and acting on the insights, outcomes and experiences can improve for everyone. 

In this section :

  • Press Play on Safety Conversations

Safety conversations are an opportunity for providers, patients, residents, clients and essential care partners to contribute openly to safe care.

They are part of a culture shift that promotes an understanding that staff and patient safety go hand-in-hand, and that recognizes the value of patients, residents, clients, essential care partners and healthcare workers in creating safety together.

Use these tools and resources, or share them with your essential care partners, to participate in safety conversations that will help you and your loved ones stay safer.

Resources

How to Have Safety Conversations: A Resource for Patients and Caregivers

Safety conversations help you and your loved ones stay safe. Learn how to prepare for safety conversations with your healthcare provider.

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How to Have Safety Conversations: A Resource for Patients and Caregivers

Safety conversations help you and your loved ones stay safe. Learn how to prepare for safety conversations with your healthcare provider.

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“What makes you feel safe” posters 

Share these posters with your healthcare provider so you have an opportunity to contribute openly to safe care.

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“What makes you feel safe” posters 

Share these posters with your healthcare provider so you have an opportunity to contribute openly to safe care.

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Presence of Safety  

Find out how Healthcare Excellence Canada is supporting a transformative shift from seeing safety as the absence of harm to a more holistic approach that fosters safe, inclusive care.

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Presence of Safety  

Find out how Healthcare Excellence Canada is supporting a transformative shift from seeing safety as the absence of harm to a more holistic approach that fosters safe, inclusive care.

Learn more