Keynote speakers
Nursing work environments and workforce issues: current challengesLinda McGillis Hall
Randomised controlled trials: Still going for gold in 2012?Vivien Coates
Research and nursing: the natural history of an idealDaniel KellyKeynote speakers
Linda McGillis Hall, Professor and Associate Dean of Research and External Relations, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Canada
Title: Nursing work environments and workforce issues: current challenges
Profile of Linda McGillis Hall
There is no magic formula for safe staffing levels to patient ratios and despite nurse-led research producing recommendations on workplace conditions to improve the situation, policy-makers pay lip service over implementing them. There is evidence, and no doubt, that better work environments equals a lower rate of nurse burnout plus lower levels of patient mortality.
Professor McGillis Hall’s keynote speech described how research studies conducted over two decades continue to show that the stresses and strains caused by insufficient staffing levels, migration and mobility link to nurse dissatisfaction and impacting patient safety. Her two most current studies in 2012 looked at nurse interruptions and shift work, examining the complex processes in delivering bedside care or drug administration.
Vivien Coates, Professor of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, and Assistant Director of Nursing (R&D), Western Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
Title: Randomised controlled trials: Still going for gold in 2012? (PDF, 1.6MB)
Profile of Vivien Coates
Life happens during the course of your randomised controlled trial, so make sure you get the theory right before you start it. The critical steps you need for a successful RCT are development, evaluation, implementation and process. And then, there's the thorny issue of funding...
Daniel Kelly, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Title: Research and nursing: the natural history of an ideal (PDF, 3.7MB)
Profile of Daniel Kelly
The day after delegates enjoyed an evening reception at the Florence Nightingale museum, RCN Professor of nursing Daniel Kelly drew on iconic militaristic images to illustrated how historically nurses had been portrayed as the purveyors of order, compassion and humanity in times of chaos. Today nursing faced a number of enduring and perplexing challenges and 'the nursing brand' was described as 'a tangle of tyranny and trust'. What then was the status and contribution of contemporary nursing research?