Fringe programme
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Funding sources for nursing research to improve health of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) communities: the Mary Seacole Leadership and Development Awards
Presenters: Professor Laura Serrant-Green (Chair), Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing, University of Lincoln; Concilia Ajuo, Sister, Northwick Park Hospital; Titilayo Babatunde, Lead Public Health Community Nurse, Greenwich Community Health Services; Gillian Francis, Health Inclusion Worker for Travellers and Gypsies, City and Hackney Community Health Services; Sonia Clarke-Swaby, Recipient Transplant Co-ordinator, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.30 - 14.30
The purpose of this fringe is to provide a networking opportunity and information forum for optimizing nursing and health care research involvement with Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
The fringe will explore the importance of working with the BME community to advance health and care developments from the expereinces of previous award winners and their research. An overview of the Mary Seacole awards will be included with the main aim of encouraging applications from practitioners. This award is one of the few awards ring-fenced for the nursing, midwifery and community practitioner communities. Opportunities for more senior researchers to mentor junior colleagues from the BME community will also be explored. It will also provide a forum for raising the profile of researchers working with the BME community. The key message is that the awards are aimed at research to advance the health of BME community, but lead researcher does not have to actually be a member of the BME community.
It is timely to run this fringe at the research conference as the calls for the next round of applications will be made soon after the conference ends (25 May 2010)
Intended outcomes
- Raising the profile of the Mary Seacole Leadership and Development Awards
- A greater engagement with the BME community
- Ideas for managers and supervisors supporting junior researchers from the BME community and those working to improve the health and care of BME populations
- Discuss the process of applications for the award and address FAQs
- Highlight personal expereinces 'rewards and benefits' of holding the award in relation to personal and po0fessional development of researchers
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The Commonwealth Fund - Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
Presenter: Joerg Haslbeck, Harkness Fellow
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13:15 - 14:15
The Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for promising mid-career professionals (academic researchers, clinicians, managers, government policymakers, and journalists from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) to spend up to 12 months in the United States conducting a research study that addresses a critical issue on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home country. A rich program of seminars organized by the Fund throughout the year further enhances the fellowship experience.
Applicants must demonstrate a strong interest in health policy issues and submit a formal application that includes a research proposal within the scope of The Fund's principal areas of focus: improving health care system performance, e.g., access to care and coverage, quality and efficiency, and equity; quality of care for children, the elderly, and minorities; and patient-centered primary care. Each fellowship provides up to U.S. $107,000 in support, plus family allowance.
Deadline for receipt of applications for the 2011-2012 Fellowship year is 13 September 2010.
2008-09 Harkness Fellow Joerg Haslbeck will share highlights of his experience and discuss:
- His background and qualifications
- His placement and mentors during the fellowship year
- Highlights of his research project
- What attracted him to the Harkness Fellowship and why he decided to apply
- What he gained from the experience professionally and personally
- How it impacted his career upon returning home
Presentation: The Commonwealth Fund - Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
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Too scared to (e)care: a chance to question (and challenge) the role of eHealth in nursing research
Presenters: Nick Hardiker, RCN eHealth adviser; Heather Strachan, National clinical eHealth lead for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions, Scottish Government; Rosemary Currell, independent researcher and author of several eHealth-related Cochrane reviews
Sponsor: Intel
Time: 13:15 - 14:15
A 'Question Time' style fringe round table/debate with a panel of experts with a focus on information governance and record keeping. Questions will be invited in the run up to the conference via the RCN web pages as well as during the conference around record-keeping and its impact on nursing research, with particular emphasis on health IT.
National NHS IT Programmes across the UK are introducing electronic solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality in healthcare, e.g. electronic patient records, telehealth and mobile technology. Users of health IT are currently taught about data protection and computer security and are made aware of the penalties for breaches. However, there is less emphasis on the need for full and timely recording of care and the implications for secondary uses of data, including nursing research.
The main aim of this fringe is to identify practical, legal, ethical and other contentious concerns regarding the use of health IT and to stimulate debate around the implications for nursing research.
Objectives include:
- To understand the issues facing nurses who are using electronic solutions to record or perform patient care and nurse researchers who are utilising the resulting data
- To allow nurses and nurse researchers the opportunity to express concerns about their responsibilities and liabilities surrounding IT and the information derived from its use
- To debate and find consensus on issues raised
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Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research Mentorship Programme
Presenters: Professor Annie Topping, Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Huddersfield; Professor Pauline Pearson, Professor of Nursing, Northumbria University and Vita FitzSimons, Mentorship Programme Co-ordinator, Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.30 - 14.30
The Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research is a UK collaboration of professional organisations concerned with the development and promotion of research and innovation in the nursing professions for the benefit of patients and the public. By working together and speaking with one voice, the Academy can achieve a greater impact on the health and social care research agenda than any one organisation can do on its own.
One of the Academy's workstreams is 'mentorship'. The first cadre of Academy mentors were recruited during 2009 and following a development day sponsored by the Health Foundation in February 2010 agreed the following aims:
- To identify nursing, midwifery and health visiting research leaders of the future
- To help nurses, midwives, and health visitors who are navigating new territory
- To help people to influence the wider health research agenda
- To facilitate the production of evidence of the nursing, midwifery and health visiting communities' influence and impact on research and practice
- To facilitate a sustainable programme in an environment of economic pressure
The Academy is now actively seeking mentees. Come along to this fringe event to find out more about the Academy and its mentorship project.
Presentation: Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research Mentorship Programme
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Wednesday 12 May 2010
Novice researchers
Presenters: Professor Barbara Jack, Head of Research and Scholarship, Edge Hill University and Dave O'Carroll, Information Manager, Royal College of Nursing
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.15 - 14.15
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 5 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:
- meet with others at a similar stage of their research development
- share experiences
- find out what help is available
- 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.
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What's the future for journals?
Presenters: Alison Tierney, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Nursing and Roger Watson, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical Nursing. Other editors will be invited to join the panel
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.30 - 14.30
Journals in print form have provided the main medium for the dissemination of scientific research since the mid-17th century. Although journals have a much shorter history in our own discipline, there are now many journals worldwide that publish nursing research and a growing number of these have strong international standing.
The advent of electronic publishing has enabled journals to increase their reach and speed, and diversify their content. But is the accompanying development of ‘open archiving’ and ‘open journals’ threatening the role and future of traditional journals? And will this, in turn, have any adverse effect on the quality and reliability of research literature? In the context of these new developments, what is the future for journals as we know them?
These are the questions that will be discussed in this Fringe Event, starting with a short opening presentation from Alison Tierney and Roger Watson and comments from other editors before open discussion and debate with the audience.
This Fringe Event will be of interest to any delegate who reads and/or publishes research articles in journals … and that therefore includes everyone attending this conference! All editors who are at the conference are invited to participate.
Presentation: What's the future for journals?
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RCN online community for clinical research nurses - What is it? How can I benefit? How can I get involved?
Presenters: Dr Debbie Carrick-Sen, Head of Nursing and Midwifery Research, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Vita FitzSimons, Research Society Membership Co-ordinator, Royal College of Nursing
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.30 - 14.30
The purpose of the event is to launch the RCN on line community for clinical research nurses. The target audience is clinical research nurses, clinical research nurse managers and clinical nurses.
Expected outcomes are:
- Official launch of the on line community
- Increase awareness of the clinical research nurse role
- Increase awareness of what the on line community can offer
- Provide a networking opportunity for clinical research nurses and clinical research nurse managers
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Presenting at the conference - so are you an author or a contributor?
Presenters: Professor Andrea Nelson, Professor of Wound Healing, University of Leeds and Dr Martyn Jones, Reader, University of Dundee
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.30 - 14.30
During this fringe event we will describe the definitions of authorship and contributorship as outlined by the World Association of Medical Editors (www.wame.org) and the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org). We will lead discussion about how authorship or contributorship is decided and how attribution as an author or a contributor to research or scholarly work brings both rights and responsibilities. The need to appropriately reflect the contributions made by members of research teams, including service users, will be covered.
This fringe will be interactive and draw upon your experiences of preparing abstracts and papers for publication, and allow us to reflect on problems encountered and the various approaches to addressing these. We will seek the preferences of delegates in how the RCN Research Conference might help delegates and abstract submitters follow best practice in their abstract preparation and in subsequent publication.
Andrea Nelson is the outgoing Chair of the Scientific Committee of the RCN annual international nursing research conference, and Martyn Jones is the incoming Chair.
Presentation: Presenting at the conference - so are you an author or a contributor?-----------------------------------------
Thursday 13 May 2010
Finding full text information for research: barriers and gateways
Presenters: Elspeth Everitt, Resource Acquisitions Information Manager, Royal College of Nursing, and Billie Joel, Resource Delivery Information Specialist, Royal College of Nursing
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.15 - 14.15
Intended audience: Pre-registration, Masters and PhD students, new researchers & their supervisors.
Purpose: To highlight the RCN nursing research collection and raise awareness of RCN information services, share experiences of routes and barriers to full text information and identify common issues to inform the development of RCN services.
Outline: The focus of the event will be on raising awareness of the full text online resources provided by the RCN, particularly the unique print collection of nursing theses (Steinberg collection) and links to full text online research. As theses become more widely available online through university repositories and the British Library ETHOS service the RCN is developing an integrated searchable gateway to print and electronic nursing theses.
New services offered by the RCN IKM team will be highlighted, including extended e-journal and e-book collections, virtual enquiry service (web chat) and literature searching.
Audience participation will be key to this event with the opportunity to share experiences of finding and reading full text information. The picture is complex with differing e-resource collections offered to NHS staff in the 4 UK countries and variable provision through universities. Sharing solutions and identifying common problems from different workplaces and countries will inform the future development of RCN information services for researchers.
Outcomes:
- Participants are aware of the range of RCN library resources and services available and know how to access help and advice
- Participants have contributed their solutions and barriers to full text access to inform others
- RCN future library services for researchers will be informed by the shared experience of participants
Presentation: Finding full text information for research: barriers and gateways
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The Legacy of Florence Nightingale: Evidence into Practice
Presenter: Professor Dawn Freshwater, Dean of School of Healthcare, University of Leeds and Florence Nightingale Foundation Trustee
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.15 - 14.15
Florence Nightingale was a very well educated woman for her day. Her father, who was educated at Cambridge University, supervised her education. She was fluent in many languages and studied the sciences. She gained great knowledge during her time in the Crimea where she analysed why there was so much infection in the barrack hospital. Up to the time she died, she was advising governments around the world on aspects of sanitation, ventilation and the design of hospitals. We now have a better-educated nursing workforce whose knowledge base, is hopefully, producing a better standard of care with evidence-based practice. Better knowledge leading to better education and subsequent improvements in the delivery of care and the well being of the community. Being knowledgeable also means being politically aware. It means knowing who to lobby when you want to implement change and having the correct facts and figures to hand so that you can state your case effectively, that is to say that being knowledgeable requires an awareness of not only of evidence, but also of how to collect and apply evidence. This fringe event examines the legacy of Florence Nightingale and uses a historical approach to reflect upon the development of evidence based practice within the nursing profession.
Presentation: The Legacy of Florence Nightingale: Evidence into Practice
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Clinical academic careers in the nursing professions
Presenter: Dr David Foster, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, England
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.15 - 14.15
Dr David Foster will give a short presentation on the development of clinical academic careers in England since the publication of the UKCRC (or 'Finch') report (UKCRC Subcommittee for Nurses in Clinical Research (Workforce) 2007). Following this, he will lead a discussion on developments in clinical academic careers in the nursing professions. This will be an interactive session with full audience participation and so delegates with an interest in the development and sustainability of clinical academic careers around the world are warmly welcome to this fringe event.
Delegates with a particular interest in developments in England will be afforded the opportunity to meet with David in a 'surgery' session that will follow on from the lunchtime fringe event. It will be possible to sign up for an appointment at David's surgery at the conference registration desk.
Reference: UKCRC Subcommittee for Nurses in Clinical Research (Workforce) 2007, Developing the best research professionals. Qualified graduate nurses: recommendations for preparing and supporting clinical academic nurses of the future, UKCRC, London
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Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research – agreeing research priorities and securing funded programmes of work
Presenters: Professor Tony Butterworth, Chair, Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research (UK) and Professor Kate Gerrish, Professor of Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sponsor: RCN Research Society
Time: 13.15 - 14.15
The Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research is a UK collaboration of professional organisations concerned with the development and promotion of research and innovation in the nursing professions for the benefit of patients and the public. By working together and speaking with one voice, the Academy can achieve a greater impact on the health and social care research agenda than any one organisation can do on its own. The Academy is seeking to determine agreed research priorities and implement a strategy to secure funded programmes of work. To date the Academy has
- undertaken a Delphi type survey of UK leaders in service and academia to identify and agree priorities
- discussed and agreed next steps to finalise these priorities
- sought third party funding to progress this workstream
Come along to this fringe event to find out more about the research priorities identified by the Academy and how this work will be taken forward.
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