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 Patient and Family Advisory Council 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
• Unit Advisory Councils

PFAC 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