Innovation
in Research and Knowledge
Exchange
Clémence Dallaire, RN, full professor
Faculté des sciences infirmières Université Laval
Innovation
Innovation : plan
 Definition
 3 projects: FERASI, GRIISIQ, CIFI and RRISI
 How innovative ?
Innovation
 Innovation:
 making new things
 ability to perform creative solutions in order to enhance
people’s life
Ramadani and Gerguri (2011
So, it’s bringing ideas to life and not coming up with ideas
Choice
(2001)
(2003)
(2008)
Faculté sciences
infirmières, U. de
Montréal
Faculté
sciences
infirmières,
Université
Laval
FERASI
School of
Nursing, U.
McGill
three pole of activities:
• planification of nursing
workforce
• analysis of policies related to
nursing administration
• organization of nursing services
and informatisation
• Knowledge Transfert
École des
sciences
infirmières,
U. de
Sherbrooke
Three doctoral seminars offered :
1. Organisation of nursing services and nursing care; (U. de Mtl)
2. Policies related to nursing administration; (U. Laval)
3. Nursing workforce determinants (McGill)
Dissemination
•
Decision-makers involved in the seminars
•
Student’s papers: activity of knowledge transfert
•
placement
Innovation
Consortium of 3 and later 4 U
Pan-canadian network
Focus on nursing administration
Capacity building
Partnership with decision-maker ($$)
Knowledge transfert
Strudent placement in nursing
administration
CHSRF, CIHR, FRSQ, decision-makers ,
universities
Centre d’innovation en formation infirmière
Center for innovation in nursing education
To elaborate, to assess and to
disseminate innovation in teaching
and learning of best practices for all
level of education including
continuing education
Développer, évaluer et diffuser des
innovations pour l’enseignement et
l’apprentissage des meilleures
pratiques de soins, à tous les
niveaux de formation, incluant la
formation continue.
innovation
Innovation in teaching and learning
Focus on competencies and
competencies development
Researchers from different
universities
Private fundings and grant (CIHR),
universities funding
the Quebec Interuniversity Nursing
Intervention Research Group
GRIISIQ was created in recognition of major
transformations in the healthcare system that
require innovative changes in nursing-care
practices in order to meet the increasingly
complex health needs of the public.
Create and consolidate a critical mass of nurse
scientists interested in the effectiveness and
efficiency of nursing interventions in Canada's
healthcare system;
Develop and evaluate innovative nursing
interventions in partnership with the clinical
arena;
Generate evidence-based knowledge in the
area of innovative nursing interventions;
Facilitate the transfer of knowledge and
promote evidence-based nursing practices.
the Quebec Interuniversity Nursing
Intervention Research Group
1. Development of interventions
2. Evaluation of interventions
3. Knowlegde transfert and
application
4. Research methodologies
Innovation
 Started with private funding (donation)
 Partenership with provincial funding agency (FRSQ)
 Adopted scientific criteria from FRSQ
 Focus on intervention and patient’s results
 Consortium of universities
 Researchers from two universities /projects
The three are innovative ?
RRISI
CADRE CONCEPTUEL
RÉSEAU DE RECHERCHE EN INTERVENTIONS EN SCIENCES INFIRMIÈRES
JUIN 2011
Interventions in the three domains
 A clinical nursing intervention refers to an action, a set of actions or a
program within the scope of professional nursing practice which is
provided to patients, families, groups or populations.
 Intervention in management and organization of services in nursing
refers to a set of activities which may relate to organizational models,
attracting nursing strategies, deployment and utilization of material
and human resources dedicated to care, new forms of work
organization for health care providers, the introduction and use of
information technology and communications, changes in the work
environment of health care providers, the development and measures
for assessing the quality and performance, the implementation of
organizational practices to support the management and delivery of
nursing services.
 An intervention in nursing education refers to any activity or
educational program, including a strategy, a pattern or practice of
learning, teaching or nursing assessment, conducted among nurses
and nursing students.
How those innovation were possible?
Innovation starts with analysis of
opportunities
disagreements in the process , requirements of the process
New knowledge
CIFI
unexpected changes (in industry or market)
CHSRF : FERASI
GRISIIQ : Private donor  FQR-S
Focus on competencies
CIFI: Fondation Newton and other sources
Structure
demographic changes
All three
changes in perception
FERASI, network GRIISIQ/FERASI/CIFI
importance
(Drucker, 1993)
CIFI
Innovative results
 Strategic talent management
Collings et Mellahi (2009)
 Capacity building in the three domains
 new research network
 Preservation of independant activities for FERASI and CIFI
Research
Faculties of Nursing,
Schools,
researchers,
students
Grant, donation,
changes in health
care
Collaboration from
all levels
Collegial
Nursing community,
Health care system,
research
community
Conclusion
Great legacy of
 new researchers
 university professors,
 numerous activities of knowledge transfert,
 collaboration between 4 universities,
 long commitment over a decade