RCN Research Society (Yorkshire & the Humber region)
Welcome to the community pages of the RCN Research Society (Yorkshire & the Humber region).
- Introduction
- Steering committee
- Regional activities
- Aims and Terms of Reference
- Action plan and annual report
- Useful resources
Introduction
Our group reconvened in 2009, and since then we have been making contacts across the region and developing a live database of people, interests and research activities. Many thanks to all of you who got in touch and completed our proforma. We received more than 40 completed proforma from across the region and have been adding more names onto our list since then.
We have had responses from primary and secondary care, universities, local government and the police. We found 78 per cent of respondents were clinical as a part of their role, and their titles ranged from staff nurse to professor of nursing, lecturer to research nurse. It is really heart-warming to hear of so many research active folks around the region.
We had a good geographical spread of responses from the north, south, east and west of the region. It was impossible to summarise the huge range of research interests expressed, so as a flavour of the diversity we have listed some of the offers of presentations that could be delivered:
- constructivist grounded theory research with younger people experiencing dementia
- tackling childhood obesity - where do school nurses fit in
- an adolescent health e-learning project
- a return to concepts and the development of nursing theory: what do we know about cancer related fatigue
- managing sickness absence using NICE guidelines
- a multiple case study exploring the use of a life story work approach with people with dementia and challenging behaviour
- changing the way we work looking at waiting list in ophthalmic data case cataract surgery
- men and health
- barriers to nursing research in the NHS
- parental involvement in neonatal comfort care: an ethnographic study
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: what do CICU staff know?
- the role of the nurse in the process of breaking bad news
- developing a scale to assess feeding difficulty in older people with dementia
- empower or deskill, the clinical nurse specialist perspective
- living with faecal incontinence
- nursing staff responses to patient death in an acute medical ward
- user-centred health care design
The plan is to maintain an active list of members for the region and use actual and virtual meetings to stimulate research and share new research findings and events. If you would like to join our mailing list, please get in touch with either Daniel or Irene, contact details below.
An important purpose of the proforma was to establish the resources individuals already use to find out research information to support their practice. These ranged from the RCN Research Society's own update through to updates from NICE and local institutions. We have developed a list of these resources that you use regularly to both keep up to date with what is going on research wise, but also to share good practices. Many of the items of the attached list have been cited as a useful resource by more than one of the members polled.