Heritage Green's PoET Portal
Welcome to the Initiation Stream of the Provincial PoET Program
Your home will have access to this portal during the active period of your participation in the Provincial PoET Program. Here you will find access to tools and information to support you through the process.
If you have any questions or need any help, please contact your PoET Spread Leader, or email us at [email protected]
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This page is password protected. The password will be shared with your home’s Change Team members, and they can share it freely with staff and physicians from your home. We do ask, however, that you please do not share the password with anyone outside of home.
Your Home's Initiation Stream Timeline
April 7th
Active Week One:
Observation
April 14th
Active Week Two:
Planning
April 21st
Active Week Three:
Testing
April 28th
Active Week Four:
Testing
This timeline identifies your home’s “active period.”
What is the Initiation Stream all about?
The Initiation Stream of the Provincial PoET Program is for homes that are making their first efforts at aligning habits, practices, and policies with Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act.Â
Over four weeks – which is called your home’s “active period” – you will work with the PoET Team to learn more about your current practices, identify opportunities for change, and test and implement different change ideas. This process is based on identified PoET Goals, and PoET’s Theory of Change.
Homes that make meet minimum requirements – related to the number and mix of changes implemented – will receive a 1-Year PoET Certificate upon completion of the four weeks.
Below you will find an information page identifying different PoET Goals, and the minimum criteria that a home must meet in order to receive a 1-year PoET Certificate.
What are PoET Goals?
PoET Goals demonstrate what achieving alignment with the Heath Care Consent Act can look like in these unique settings. All PoET Goals relate to decision making: some directly to the requirements of the Health Care Consent Act and related professional obligations, and others to more practical steps that facilitate the meeting of those requirements.
Homes that participate in the Initiation Stream of the Provincial PoET Program (such as your!) work toward meeting PoET Goals by identifying and/or creating Change Ideas.
Find out more about them in the information sheet linked to the right.
PoET Goals Information Sheet
Click HereMinimum 1-Year PoET Certificate Requirements
To receive their 1-Year PoET Certificate at the end of the Initiation Stream, participating homes must meet minimum criteria. These criteria have been chosen to make sure that homes have made substantial and interrelated changes that will remain in place after your active period is done. The minimum criteria include looking at the number of changes your home has made, the types of changes your home has made, and who has been involved.
Find out more about the minimum criteria in the information sheet linked to the right.
Minimum 1-Year PoET Certificate Requirements
Click HereInitiation Stream Tips Sheets
Getting Ready for Online Program Delivery
Click HerePoET Preliminaries and PoET Practicals
Your home has access to both the PoET Preliminaries education series and the PoET Practicals coaching series. Each series includes five different sessions that help to build knowledge and skills related to Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act.
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A few things to know about these sessions:
- All sessions are live and interactive, and take place on zoom.
- Each week has a different zoom link. These links are included below, and will be emailed to your home’s primary contacts.
- The Preliminaries and Practicals take place on alternating weeks; the start date you have chosen will determine which series you have access to first.
PoET Preliminaries & PoET Practicals Information Sheet
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Weekly Webinar Zoom Links
Schedule
Below you will find meetings between your home and the PoET Team, as well as webinar sessions for PoET Practicals and PoET Preliminaries.
Clicking on an event will reveal further information, including zoom links and links to any relevant tools or documents.
Your home's change plan
The goal of the Initiation Stream is to help your home make substantial steps towards better alignment with Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act. These steps will involve making changes.
By the end of Active Week Two your home and the PoET Team will have created a change plan that will identify what your home does (or does not do) now, and what you will do differently in the future. These are your “change ideas.” The idea could relate to something in the environment (like a form or a policy), to the knowledge that residents, family members, staff, and physicians have related to decision making, or to the behaviours and processes that people have related to decision making.
A Change Plan Sample Template has been included below; the PoET Team will work with you in Active Week Two to complete this form, which will then be posted as your Change Plan by the beginning of Active Week Three.
Sample Change Ideas:
“A resident’s capacity will be evaluated before approaching a substitute decision maker for consent”
“Residents will be invited to their own care conferences”
Available Active Week Three
Frequently Used Tools for Staff and Physicians
In the menu below you will find a number of tools and resources that will help the staff and physicians at your home implement changes that will help to bring your habits and practices closer in line with the Health Care Consent Act.
Change in Condition Conversation Guide for Nurses
Click HereChange in Condition Conversation Guide for Nurses - 2 Pages
Click HereCode Status on Admission
Click HereCapacity Poster
Click HereDecision Making Roles
Click HereInformation Sheet for Substitute Decision Makers
Click HereTemplate for Capacity Evaluation
Click HereResident Booklet
Click HereTreatment Plan Proposal Template
Click HereHave questions? Need help?
Contact your PoET Coordinator, or email the PoET Team at [email protected]