Bonnie Sept
Patient and Caregiver Partner
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Areas of Expertise
- Recruitment
- Advocating for Patient, Family & Caregivers
- Communication with Patients, Families & Caregivers
- Lived Experience as Caregiver of family member with ICU Delirium
- Comprehension of Medical Terminology
Biography
Bonnie Sept is a Family Advisor and former Critical Care employee with Alberta Health Services (AHS). Bonnie Sept became interested in supporting Critical Care Research during her role as an Administrative Assistant within the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Foothills Medical Centre. After her retirement she returned to Critical Care in a new capacity as a research assistant with the focus of integrating family presence into ICU rounds. She is inspired by the opportunity to help balance traditional scientific research while empowering patients and their families to be involved in a meaningful way during their ICU stay. Bonnie has assisted with numerous studies within the Calgary Critical Care Research Network as a patient researcher and partner. Bonnie enjoys working with patients and families and therefore understands the importance of family as emotional supporters of critically ill patients which has been impacted during infectious disease outbreaks seen in COVID-19. Bonnie will aid in knowledge translation and dissemination in this important work surrounding visitation policies enacted by the emergence of COVID-19.
Publications
Fiest KM, Krewulak KD, Sept BG, Stelfox HT. The authors reply. Crit Care Med. 2020 Nov;48(11):e1162-e1163. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004623. PMID: 33038167.
Fiest KM, Sept BG, Stelfox HT. Patients as Researchers in Adult Critical Care Medicine. Fantasy or Reality? Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Sep;17(9):1047-1051. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201911-847IP. PMID: 32496808; PMCID: PMC7462325.
Fiest KM, Krewulak KD, Sept BG, Spence KL, Davidson JE, Ely EW, Soo A, Stelfox HT. A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of family-partnered delirium prevention, detection, and management in critically ill adults: the ACTIVATE study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 May 24;20(1):453. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05281-8. PMID: 32448187; PMCID: PMC7245836.
Fiest KM, Krewulak KD, Ely EW, Davidson JE, Ismail Z, Sept BG, Stelfox HT. Partnering With Family Members to Detect Delirium in Critically Ill Patients. Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul;48(7):954-961. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004367. PMID: 32332281.
Krewulak KD, Sept BG, Stelfox HT, Ely EW, Davidson JE, Ismail Z, Fiest KM. Feasibility and acceptability of family administration of delirium detection tools in the intensive care unit: a patient-oriented pilot study. CMAJ Open. 2019 Apr 26;7(2):E294-E299. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20180123. PMID: 31028053; PMCID: PMC6488481.