Fringe programme

Final Fringe Programme

TUESDAY 8TH APRIL

Novice Researchers

Presenters: Professor Barbara Jack, Head of Research and Scholarship, Edge Hill University and Mr Dave O'Carroll, Royal College of Nursing

This fringe event is aimed at nurses based in clinical and academic settings - who are in the early stages of undertaking research or who may be planning to start a research project.

The research road can be very long and winding with plenty of road works to stop you in your tracks. In the early stages of undertaking research this can be a journey in which a little help, direction and support can be of great value.

The purpose of this event is to establish what may be of help to you on the research journey. Additionally the last 4 years fringe events have provided feedback to the Research Society Steering Committee as to what help nurse researchers need.

The aims of this event are to enable you to:
i. meet with others at a similar stage of their research development
ii. share experiences
iii. find out what help is available
iv. meet new people and network

So come along and meet us at this event and you never know you might find the exact help that you were looking for.


The Nurse Author & Editor Fringe Event

Presenters: A panel of experienced Nurse Editors and representatives from Wiley-Blackwell (Griselda Campbell and Rosie Priestley)

This event is for nurse authors, reviewers and editors and is an opportunity to discuss the latest issues in publishing and ask questions on how to get published in an informal setting. There will be a panel of experienced Nurse Editors from various peer-reviewed journals at the event who will answer and debate any topics raised.
 
This event is sponsored by Nurse Author & Editor which is a free online resource available at www.NurseAuthorEditor.com and aims to inform and support nurse authors, reviewers and editors.  This event will showcase www.NurseAuthorEditor.com and will provide an opportunity for you to feedback on the resources you would like available on this free website.
 
There will be 2 free giveaways available at the event ¡V a 'Writing for Publication' booklet (written by Christine Webb) and a 'Reviewing for Publication' booklet (written by Charon Pierson, Editor of Nurse Author & Editor). 


Engaging with Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) communities: ideas and case studies from the ABLE Programme: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) research & awareness projects in primary and secondary care - an unmet need

Presenter: Neerja Jain, Kidney Research UK

The purpose of the Fringe Session:
To describe and share some challenging, but successful work with and for BME communities. The examples will draw on the area of chronic kidney disease (CKD) research and dissemination of results. The session will look at health care policy and ethics in order to engage with these socially excluded communities who are at greater risk of the related major chronic conditions of CHD, diabetes and CKD. The session will outline some of the challenges experienced in recruiting BME groups for research and the issues surrounding health belief which can act as barriers to effective self care management. Following on from this, details will be given as to how some of the challenges were overcome and successful engagement achieved to involve these users and beneficiaries in the steering of the research and ongoing dissemination of the research and key health messages.

The target audience will be all research nurses working in a diverse society.

Expected Outcomes
i. To demystify BME involvement and engagement
ii. To provide case-studies and examples of successful strategies; offering the tools and providing concepts and models for good practice
iii. To encourage positive approaches and enable delegates to network, sharing ideas


WEDNESDAY 9TH APRIL

Every Voice Matters…Developing a framework for research leadership around children and young people's user involvement in research

Presenters: Dr Jane Coad; Dr Faith Gibson; Dr Carol Hall; Mary Lewis; Dr Alison Twycross; Duncan Randall; Dr Margaret Fletcher

Children, young people and family research has undergone much change in the last ten years in terms of user involvement. Despite this, there is still no clear guidance about how best to involve them in the planning, data collection, analysis and dissemination stages of research (McLaughlin 2006; Gibson et al 2006; Coad and Houston, 2007).

The purpose of this fringe will enable researchers to share successes and challenges of user involvement in terms of their research and consultation activities where children, young people and families were placed at the centre of the activity, or could have been. Participants will have the opportunity to explore how in their future project developments they might involve children, young people and families in the research stages of planning, collection, analysis and dissemination.  The expected outcomes of the fringe will be to:

i. Facilitate discussion and collate experiences between researchers of child and family health around user involvement
ii. Develop a pragmatic guide for meaningfully involving children, young people and families within all stages of research projects
iii. Enhance participant¡¦s knowledge, skills and resources for future leadership in project design and management where children, young people and families are placed at the centre 


RCN Doctoral students' network

Presenters: Dr Val Woodward and Dr Angela Grainger, Research Society Steering Committee Members

This network meeting is aimed at students undertaking doctoral level studies and aims to provide a supportive environment where people can gather to share experiences, provide mutual support, network and socialise.

We hope to provide a forum for this to happen over a lunchtime at the conference and hope that both UK and international students will come along and enjoy meeting others who are making a similar journey to themselves. 


Cultural diversity in healthcare

Presenter: Professor Uduak Archibong, University of Bradford

This session, in association with the Journal of Research in Nursing, will be led by Professor Uduak Archibong, Professor of Diversity and Race Equality at Bradford.  Britain is home to many cultures yet a review of the literature and the discourse around cultural diversity in the UK portrays it to be a problem to be solved, rather than an opportunity to be realised. There are historic connotations for this, and regrettably, modern anxieties that in many cases prevent some people from minority ethnic communities seeking or receiving the care that they need and are entitled to.   While there are some excellent initiatives in health care set up in order to provide culturally sensitive services, we have a long way to go in order to achieve equity.  The aim of this session is to highlight inequalities, to identify strategies to overcome them, and to discuss the role of the nursing profession in the achievement of a culturally competent health service.

Professor Archibong will give a keynote address on diversity and race equality, raising issues that are particularly pertinent to nursing and nursing research.  She will then lead participants in a discussion of  key issues in providing high quality care in a culturally diverse society

Clinical Academic Careers in Nursing: The next steps

Presenters: Joyce Kenkre, National Assembly for Wales/University of Glamorgan, Collette Ferguson, Associate Director of Nursing and Midwifery, NHS Education for Scotland, Abi Masterson, Independent Consultant, Ros Moore, Nursing Officer, Department of Health

This fringe event will provide an opportunity for delegates to be updated from a four country perspective on the latest position regarding clinical academic careers. Leaders from the four countries will discuss strategic direction and local implementation plans for a supported career structure.

 

THURSDAY 10TH APRIL

The best of both worlds: Forging partnerships between academic and clinical research

Presenters: Ms Lynda Appleton, Research Nurse, Research Nurse, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology and Professor Barbara Jack, Edge Hill University

You are warmly welcomed to this interactive fringe event, which will outline the benefits and processes involved in bringing nurses and academic staff together to undertake research. The presentation will include specific examples of 'joined up' working. The target audience will be clinicians with an interest in developing partnerships for research. The aim of the fringe event will be:
i. To share experiences
ii. To identify opportunities, barriers and solutions
iii. To provide ideas and suggestions for developing models of collaborative research practice

Pluralist approaches to research, through the formation of integrated, multidisciplinary, collaborative teams opens up new opportunities for nursing research. The underpinning principles and values of such approaches will be discussed, such as shared expertise; enhanced communication; 'buy in' and access to knowledge, resources and contacts. The expected outcomes of the event will be a greater understanding of the processes involved in building and maintaining an academic-clinical collaboration and an appreciation of the practical aspects which contribute to its success. Come and join us for what will be a stimulating and enlightening event.

The Emotional Dimensions of Caring

Presenters - Dr Debbie Mazhindu and Professor Pam Smith

An international, multidisciplinary, collaborative research group that explores working with emotions; emotions at work: research on the relationship between emotions, work force development, professional occupations, organizations, education and health care. It will be of interest to anyone responsible for the quality of service delivery.

  • Emotional labour represents the qualitative difference in a work related task that is performed in a caring way, which puts the recipient of care at the centre of the work equation despite difficult and often unpleasant circumstances
  • Staff interfacing directly with the public, and who are expected to demonstrate the ability to care as an integral part of their work performance need emotional support
  • Dealing effectively with emotions is crucial to incorporate into pre and post registration training and education programmes
  • The emotional cost to caring is under-researched currently, especially from the point of view of service users

What will you get from this fringe event?
i. Sources of research based evidence for practice into the role of emotions at work on health and well-being
ii. Insight into how service users can benefit from an emotionally aware workforce
iii. Information on future events
iv. Best available evidence: resources journals and book


The development of competences for research nurses: a progress report and discussion

Presenters: Dr Leslie Gelling, Chair, Competences for Research Nurses Working Group and Dr Angela Grainger, Competences for Research Nurses Working Group

The purpose of this fringe event will be to provide delegates with an update on the 'Competences for Research Nurses' currently being developed by a working group of nurses from across the UK.  Delegates will be provided with an overview of progress and future plans.  There will be an opportunity to discuss the competences and how they might be implemented and used.

The target audience will be research nurses involved in clinical research.


Caledonian Connection

Presenter: Colin MacDuff

This meeting is being convened to bring together nurse researchers in Scotland who are interested in furthering the work of the RCN Research Society Scotland. The past year has seen a lull in the Society¡¦s activities in Scotland, following the success of Dundee 07. Based on the old farming principle of the fallow field yielding a rich subsequent harvest, we now wish to plant some seeds for the coming year. The meeting will discuss strategy and goals for future development, and outline opportunities to become involved in the Society's work in Scotland. Everyone with an interest in research in nursing in Scotland is very welcome. The expected outcomes are:
1. to make useful connections and re-connections amongst the Caledonian contingent
2. to outline a plan for developing Research Soc Scotland¡¦s work in the coming year

 
FRIDAY 11TH APRIL

Culture Aid 2008:  Liverpool John Moores student enterprise initiative providing shop keepers and small businesses with skills for caring for the public with health emergencies

Presenters: Heather Ashbrook, paramedic student; Paul Owenbrowne, paramedic student; Darren Green, paramedic student; Gillian Orritt, paramedic student; Rachel Kierl, paramedic student; Ray Hollis, Student Nurse; Sarah Owen, Student Nurse; Monica Humphries, Student Nurse; Elaine Lyons, Student Nurse

How does a community like Liverpool prepare for the expansion in the numbers of visitors for Capital of Culture year 2008?

Students at LJMU have created a health aid initiative to prepare small businesses to safely respond to the emergency care needs of visitors in the city. It is envisaged that the information and skills we will impart will assist in reducing the burden on the paramedic and medical staff in the city.

We hope to demonstrate to our audience of health care professionals, using evidence based practice the following outcomes:

i. Interfacing directly with the public by role modelling and teaching skills of emergency care
ii. Directly impact on the outcomes of emergency situations for future visitors to the European Capital of Culture 2008
iii. Demonstrating our commitment to improving the response of the local community to emergency health care situations
iv. Demonstrating partnership with the local health community strengthening LJMU¡¦s reputation as a leading provider of health care education
v. Development of entrepreneurial skills for students in nursing and paramedic courses connecting with the wider business community
vi. Personal and professional development
vii. Raising awareness of basic skills in emergency care with the public


Health Care Serial Killers (HCSKs):  a world epidemic, or just bad statistics?

Presenter: Professor Richard Gill, University of Leiden (with other scientists involved in the Dutch Lucia de Berk case)

Recent years have seen a world-wide spate of murder cases, triggered by the occurrence of clusters of 'unexplained' incidents on a nursing ward, together with the presence of one particular nurse at many of those events. Many of these cases collapse again, because finally no hard evidence could be found to prove that the cases were murders or murder attempts, let alone that that particular nurse had any connection with them.

The presenter believes that there is a simple statistical explanation for the phenomenon of innocent co-clustering of events and nurses' shifts. He believes that research is urgently needed into the phenomenon, since if he is right, bad statistics are leading to the initiation of criminal proceedings, devastating to all concerned, when the case should have been never left the stage of an internal medical investigation.

The target audience consists of all those who are concerned with the risks which are run by anyone who works in a place where people can die. He wishes to initiate discussion in the nursing community, and he wishes to stimulate multidisciplinary research into the phenomenon, for which nursing researchers and statisticians are going to need to learn one another's languages.

Everything you wanted to know about research but were too shy to ask

Presenters: Kate Gerrish, Ann McMahon, Andrea Nelson, Annie Topping, Angela Tod and other authors from The Research Process in Nursing

Friday 11th April is a special day at the conference - it is the day when a number of pre-registration students will be attending. If you are one of these students or if you are new to research, or if you just fancy an enjoyable lunch-time fringe do come and join us.

You will have the opportunity to meet with several of the authors from the well know research textbook "The Research Process in Nursing" and quiz them about research and evidence-based practice. We will try to answer your questions, share something of the realities of doing research, and bring some humour to the event.

And in order to entice you further, everyone who attends can enter the free prize draw. We look forward to meeting you all.