Schedule-at-a-Glance

Optional Events

Musee des Hospitalieres de l’Hotel-Dieu de Montreal

Duration: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (bus will depart Hilton Montreal Bonaventure at 3:30 pm)
Price: $42

With a permanent exhibit featuring 350 art objects selected from a collection of 7000 exhibits focusing on its history, medicine and religious art, the Musee des Hospitalieres de l’Hotel-Dieu de Montreal does not merely speak of the past, but also offers an enlightened view of the present. History in the Museum begins with Jérôme Le Royer, a true visionary who chooses Paul de Chomedey and Jeanne Mance to establish a hospital on the island of Montreal.

The Museum, inaugurated in 1992, opens on a magnificent oak staircase built in the 17th century. It relates the history of the Hospitallers of Saint-Joseph, of Hôtel-Dieu, a history forever entwined with that of Montreal. History takes a further step when the first Hospitallers of St.Joseph arrive in 1659. Early collaborators of Jeanne Mance and the physicians, the Hospitallers work as nursing sisters, apothecaries and administrators. They are still present today to comfort the sick and accompany them on their spiritual journey.

The Museum's last pages of history briefly cover medicine and nurse training. From long-forgotten treatments to the important discoveries made in the late 19th century, from the foundation of a nursing school to the nationalization of health services, the history of medicine in Quebec unfolds before our eyes.

Site Visit to the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)

This tour is sold out.

Duration: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (bus will depart Hilton Montreal Bonaventure at 3:30 pm)
Price: $37

Theme: Preparing for the Future - MUHC's redevelopment project and Nurse's increasing use of information systems and technology

Purpose: Present the information systems and technologies being implemented by MUHC Nurses to increase quality of care and to prepare for the transition to a new state-of-the-art facility in 2014.

Agenda:

1. 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm - Introduction to the MUHC and presentation of the redevelopment project
2. 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm - Tour of 4 clinical areas and their supporting IS/IT
3. Destination 1: Oacis Clinical Information System use on an in-patient unit
4. Destination 2: Med-Urge use in the emergency department
5. Destination 3: TBD
6. Destination 4: TBD

Additional destinations could include touring clinical areas that are piloting various mobile devices for electronic documentation and order entry, that are using perinatal information system fetal surveillance, etc. Participants will most likely be divided into 4 groups (10 - 15 participants/group) and will rotate through the destinations to reduce the number of individuals on a unit at any one given time.