Other Ways to Get Involved
Patient and Family Advisory Councils
As a Patient and Family Advisor, you’ll have other opportunities to serve as an agent of change. In most cases, these opportunities are for active PFAC/ PPWG members or those who have completed a two-year term on a council. Opportunities may include:
- Committees
- Focus groups
- Events
- Family Education Days
- Design teams
- Family panels
- Family-to-Family Programs
- Membership recruitment
- Patient and family faculty
- Policy groups
- Public speaking
- Participating in surveys
PFAC and PPWG members also continue to be a voice for patients and families by serving on the following committees:
- Family Centered Care Rounds
- Ethics
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection
- Memorial Service
- Hand Hygiene
- Safety
- Peripheral Intravenous Infiltration and Extravasation
- FALLS
- Patient Experience
- Venous Thromboembolism
- Unplanned Extubations
- Cather-associated Urinary Tract Infection
- Sepsis
- Surgical Site Infections