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Description: Job shortages in Health Care are here and they are real. Addressing the pinch points for continuing to provide MLS students with robust and quality Clinical Training paths involves complex strategies and collaboration—and Simulation is an integral part of this. In this webinar, Tammy Hardie, the MLS Simulation Coordinator at BCIT, will share some of her experiences in facing this challenge head-on with creativity and resourcefulness. She will provide guidance in accessing open sourced resources, demonstrate how the Education Electronic Health Record can be used to simulate a LIS. She will discuss a variety of inter-disciplinary simulation initiatives, and present strategies for helping to alleviate some of this pressure in our MLS programs across Canada. Sim-Thing’s Happening in MLS Education and it’s time to climb aboard this train of thought and collaborate with one another!
Start date: Upon registration
Completion: Up to 52 weeks
At the end of this webinar you will be able to:
Speaker: Tammy Hardie, BA MLT/RT CAE
Tammy Hardie BA, MLT/RT, CAE is currently the Simulation Coordinator for the Medical Laboratory Sciences Program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of the Health Sciences Center/Red River College program in Winnipeg, Manitoba and received certification from the Canadian Society of Medical Laboratory Sciences (CSMLS) in 1989. Since then she has worked as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in a variety of disciplines including Hematology, Chemistry, Microbiology and Transfusion Medicine. Her experience spans the gamut; small community centers, remote northern regional centres, major urban hospitals, and provincial reference laboratories. She made the leap from Clinical MLT work to MLS education in 2004 when she accepted a teaching position at Red River College in Winnipeg. She worked in a variety of capacities during her eight year tenure there including: primary instructor in Hematology, General Lab Practices, and Phlebotomy and Assistant Instructor in Histology and Transfusion Medicine. She also taught Microbiology in the Life Sciences Program and Canadian Literature in the Library Information Technology program—yes! You guessed it she is a Gemini 😉
Ms Hardie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (*with Distinction) in Canadian Literature and Native Studies from the University of Manitoba in 2005. In 2010 she completed her Certificate in Adult Education from Red River College. Over the course of her career she has been an active volunteer with both the Manitoba Association of Medical Lab Sciences (Treasurer), the CSMLS, and the College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Manitoba (Investigations Officer) and in 2009 she became an active member of the non-profit organization the Flying Doctors of Canada, was promoted to Chief Diagnostics Officer in 2011 and in 2012 accepted a Director position on the Board.
Tammy left the prairies in 2012 to accept a teaching position at BCIT, where she has taught Hematology, Hematopathology, and Hemostasis for the past 10 years. In June she was selected by her peers to fill the Secondment for MLS Simulation Coordinator. She is currently part of the Virtu-WIL project with CiCAN authoring a Simulation activity in Chain of Custody and co-authoring a Simulation activity in Antibody Investigation using the platform Affinity. She maintains practice and relevancy by working locums in the Core Lab at Prince Rupert Regional Hospital whenever she can. She currently sits on the International Mobility Fund Committee at BCIT and the BC Federation of Unions Standing Committee for Human Rights. She has a passion for lab work, education, humanitarian efforts in the developing world and Simulation! BCIT provides an excellent environment for her to embrace all of these and more!
Recorded: July 15, 2023
PEP hours: 1.0
CPS credits: 0
*Note: PEP hours and/or CPS credits will only be awarded upon successful completion of the quiz.