16th – 18th May 2011, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate.
To stimulate networking and debate the conference will include a variety of keynote papers, symposia, workshops, concurrent sessions, poster presentations and visual presentations with expert review (ViPER). There will also be fringe meetings and a lively social programme.
Deadline for submitting abstracts – 22nd November 2010.
Keynote presentations from the 2010 RCN Nursing Research Conference
are available on the RCN website.
The Fringe Programme presentations are also available.
Systematic review course - University of Nottingham
13th – 17th December 2010, Nottingham. Presented by members of the University of Nottingham Centre for Evidence based Practice, a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Collaboration, the course will include: *Introduction to Evidence Based Practice; *Appraising, Extracting and Pooling Quantitative Evidence using RevMan; *Appraising, Extracting and Pooling Qualitative Evidence.
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): NIHR Research support services framework. This will support local research management providing guidelines for standard operating procedures (SOPs), capability statements and risk management enabling NHS research managers to offer a consistent service that “manages risk at the right time with the right people and in a proportionate way”.
Confused by the plethora of acronyms in the healthcare system? The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) RDInfo has put together a jargon buster to help you sort out your DeNDRoNs from your TRUSTs.
The Foundation of Nursing Studies has been relaunched as the FoNS Centre for Nursing Innovation. The aim is to create a virtual space to “inspire and enable nurses to lead innovation and change in nursing and healthcare practice to improve patient care”. The Centre includes: Programmes of support, a Library of information, a Learning Zone, and a Common Room for sharing ideas and expertise.
Patients First – Supporting Nurse-led Innovation in Practice
This programme has been made possible by FoNS’ active and ongoing partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing.
The Patients First Programme provides support and facilitation to clinically based nurse-led teams to help them to develop, implement and evaluate locally focused innovations that improve patient care in any healthcare setting across the UK. Currently recruiting 15 teams to join the programme in December 2010.
Participant overexposure and the role of researcher judgement.
Lipscomb M
Nurse Researcher 2010; 17(4): 49-59 (57 ref)
Ethical conduct discussion often focuses on decisions made before and during the research process. In contrast, this paper offers a reflective and personal post-factum critique of two distinct elements of ethical practice that emerged from a recent study of aspects of activity at a hospice in England.
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Learning how to undertake a systematic literature review: part 1.
Bettany-Saltikov, J
Nursing Standard, August 2010, vol./is. 24/50(47-55).
Continuing Professional Development, NS556. 1st of 2 articles describing the processes involved in writing a systematic review. The definition of a systematic review is included, and the differences with literature reviews highlighted. The selection of a literature research topic and how to formulate a research question using PICO (population, comparative intervention, outcomes) are outlined, with a case study. 13 refs.
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Learning how to undertake a systematic review, part 2.
Bettany-Saltikov, J
Nursing Standard, August 2010, vol./is. 24/51(47-56).
Continuing Professional Development, NS557. 2nd of 2 articles describing the process of conducting a systematic review. The search strategy to enable selection and appraisal of studies to be included in a review, and the extraction of data providing a synthesis of the evidence is explained. A case study is included to illustrate how to present a critique of studies. 15 refs.
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Diaries as a method of data collection in research.
Nicholl, H
Paediatric Nursing, September 2010, vol./is. 22/7(16-20).
Use of diaries by research participants, based on experience of use in a doctoral study in Ireland concerning mothers' experiences of caring for children with complex needs. Points to consider before using a diary approach, possible problems, combination with other methods and practical issues of structure, administrative instructions and analysis are discussed. 19 refs.
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