Other Ways to Get Involved

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