Research & Development Co-ordinating Centre Weekly EBulletin
1 October 2007
RCN Research and Development Co-ordinating Centre
1. International Conferences on Community Health Nursing
Research (ICCHNR), International Symposium on community
nursing research: "Community nursing research: Society in
transition" NEW on-line Symposium
Granada, Spain, 4 - 5 October 2007
ICCHNR has created on-line access to the main Symposium contents, allowing
virtual participation of professionals from countries with less opportunities of
going to Granada. To register go to the website. You can choose an alternative
language from the drop down menu in the top right hand corner.
Contact: the Secretary
Tel: +34 958027400
Email: rosario.prieto.easp@juntadeandalucia.es
Fax: + 34 958027503
Website: www.index-f.com/icchnrsimposium07/index_i.htm
RCN Research Society
2. Marjorie Simpson New Researchers' award 2008
Applications are invited for the RCN Research Society Marjorie Simpson New
Researchers' award 2008. The award is available to new or inexperienced
researchers, currently undertaking a postgraduate course of study leading to a
higher degree (MSc, MPhil, PhD).
The award will cover the cost of the conference fees, conference accommodation
and up to 100GBP travel costs. To qualify for the award an applicant must be a
member of the Royal College of Nursing Research Society. Successful applicants
will be required to submit a report of the annual international nursing research
conference to the Research Society Steering Committee. This report may
subsequently be submitted to Research Headlines and/or placed on the Research
Society's website. For more details see the website.
Email: jenifer.caveney@rcn.org.uk
Website: http://www2.rcn.org.uk/researchanddevelopment/rs/awards
Deadline for receipt of application: 31 October 2007
3. RCN Research Society East of England group - News and events
for 2007
East of England regional group meeting/ AGM
Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 16 October 2007, 14.30 –
15.30
Mental Capacity Act workshop
Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 16 October 2007, 16.00–
18.00
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) has implications for all areas of nursing practice.
This workshop will focus on the impact of the MCA and the best way to integrate
the act into every day practice. The workshop will be lead by experts in various
fields of practice, with discussions about the implications of the Act for nurses and
will be followed by an interactive question time.
Contact: Joanne Outtrim
Email: jgo22@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.rcn.org.uk/researchanddevelopment/rs/networking/
4. East Midlands RCN Research Society meeting
Leicester General Hospital, 15 October 2007, 9.30am - 1pm (Lunch provided
between 12 - 1pm)
Developing the best research professionals' UKCRN draft report (Dr Laura Serrant
Green)
Blogging - a medium to support collaborative research support (Dan
Wolstenholme)
Contact: Daniel Wolstenholme, Research Advisor
Tel: 01246 513632
Email: Daniel.Wolstenholme@chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk
Fellowships/Studentships
5. Congratulations to the Smith & Nephew Foundation Fellowship
and Studentship award winners 2007
Julie Santy, a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Health & Social Care, University of
Hull, has been awarded a Smith & Nephew Foundation Doctoral Nursing Research
Studentship, worth 90,000GBP to develop and validate an assessment tool for the
identification of infection in skeletal external fixator pin site wounds in adults. She
will undertake her PhD at the University of Hull.
Jill Firth, a nurse working for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has won a
120,000GBP Smith & Nephew Foundation Post-Doctoral Nursing Research
Fellowship to continue her PhD studies at the University of Leeds in the
prevalence of foot ulcers in rheumatoid arthritis, and the possible risk factors on
patients and the care they receive.
For further information about the awards contact the Smith & Nephew
Foundation.
Contact: Barbara Foster, Smith & Nephew Foundation
Tel: 01482 673250
Email: Barbara-S+NFoundation.Foster@smith-nephew.com
Website: http://www.snfoundation.org.uk/Winners2007.htm
Research Training
6. Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (Edinburgh) courses and
seminars 2007/2008
Courses
4 October 2007 - Literature Searching with Medline
8 October 2007 - How to Fill Out an Ethics Form
10 October 2007 - Good Laboratory Practice
29 October 2007 - Introduction to Sample Size & Power Calculation for Clinical
Research
1 November 2007 - Human Tissue Workshop - Are You Working Within the Law?
9 November 2007 - Statistics for Clinical Researchers
12 November 2007 - Good Clinical Practice & the EU Directive
13 November 2007 - Good Clinical Practice & the EU Directive - half day
INTENSIVE
27 November 2007 - An Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Health
Professionals
Effective Presentations (On Request)
Seminars
25 October 2007 - How to Keep a Statistical Referee Happy?, Professor Gordon
Murray, University of Edinburgh
1 November 2007 - Funding Your Way Around Clinical Research -a chance to
meet the experts, Professor Peter Weissberg, British Heart Foundation and Dr
Roma Armstrong, Chief Scientist Office
6 December 2007 - The Translational Medicine Research Collaboration - where to
next?, Professor Andrew Morris, University of Dundee. In this seminar, Professor
Morris will discuss new research funding opportunities for clinical and basic
scientists across Scotland.
24 January 2008 - UK Biobank and Generation Scotland- an update on two
national genetic epidemiology studies, Professor Jill Pell, University of Glasgow
and Professor Blair Smith, University of Aberdeen
28 February 2008 - Setting Up Your Own Randomised Trial - 1 Part 1: How to use
systematic reviews to improve your trial, Professor Peter Sandercock, Cochrane
Stroke Group
6 March 2008 - Setting Up Your Own Randomised Trial - 2 Part 2: Set-up,
management, close-down and reporting your trial: the basics, Professor Peter
Sandercock, Cochrane Stroke Group
Contact: Michelle Evans, Education Nationalisation Co-ordinator
Tel: 0131 537 3355
Email: wtcrf.education@ed.ac.uk
Website: www.wtcrf.ed.ac.uk/education/Courses.htm
Consultations Documents
7. RCN-led consultations
The RCN is asked to comment on a huge array of consultation documents many
of which have a very short timescale. To give RCN members a greater
opportunity to feed into this process an up-to-date list of consultations is
available on the RCN website. Recent consultations with RCN deadlines in
brackets include:
England October to December 2007 deadlines
Department for Work and Pensions: The Merger of the Health and Safety
Commission and the Health and Safety Executive: Changes to Legislation
governing Health and Safety in Great Britain [31 October 2007]
Department for Children, Schools and Families: Staying Safe – Young Person
version [31 October 2007]
Sentencing Advisory Panel: Consultation Paper on Breach of an Anti-Social
Behaviour Order (ASBO) [9 November 2007]
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Consultation on
Amendments to the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004
(S.I. 2004/1031) [7 December 2007]
Website: http://www2.rcn.org.uk/researchanddevelopment/policy/consultations
8. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
consultations – RCN contribution: Call for clinical specialists
The Department of Health has asked NICE to develop and publish the following
guidelines. The RCN is looking for clinical specialists to participate in this work on
their behalf.
Clinical guideline
- Multiple pregnancy
- Transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC) in adults
- Primary colorectal and anal cancer
- Men with lower urinary tract symptoms
Short clinical guideline
- Critical illness - rehabilitation
Health technology appraisal
- Bevacizumab, sorafenib, sunitinib and temsirolimus for renal cell carcinoma
- Cetuximab for treatment of metastatic and/or recurrent squamous cell
carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN)
- Intensity modulated radiotherapy for treatment of specific cancers
For full detail of the NICE work programme see the website.
Contact: Caroline Rapu
Email: caroline.rapu@rcn.org.uk
Website: http://www.nice.org.uk
Research Networks
9. NHS Networks - Network and New Network of the Year awards
NHS Networks will be presenting two awards at the NHS Networks national
conference, London, on 6 November 2007. The awards will be for Network of the
Year, and New Network of the Year. If you run, or help to run, a network you can
nominate your own network. If you are a member of a network you can nominate
that network or suggest to the network co-ordinator/committee that they can
nominate themselves. The criteria will include how well the network is organised
and coordinated, whether the activities are appropriate to the network's purpose,
and what the achievements are.
Email: enquiries@ukhcc.com
Fax: 0870 2500369.
Deadline: 19 October 2007
Completed Research & Development - Open Access
10. INVOLVE - Promoting public involvement in NHS, public health
and social care research.
INVOLVE was established to promote public involvement in research, in order to
improve the way that research is prioritised, commissioned, undertaken,
communicated and used. They believe that research which reflects the needs and
views of the public is more likely to produce results that can be used to improve
practice in health and social care. A quarterly newsletter is produced.
The Summer 2007 issue of INVOLVE newsletter includes articles on:
- Practical partnership: user-driven service evaluation in Wandsworth
- Having a say in stroke research
- The views and experiences of research network professionals on patient and
public involvement in clinical research
Website: http://www.invo.org.uk/
11. King's College London, Policy+: Does "Cohort nursing" help
control healthcare acquired infection? (issue 4)
Policy+ is a new publication from the Nursing Research Unit which aims to deliver
brief overviews of evidence related to current policies affecting the nursing
workforce in England, the wider United Kingdom and the rest of the world. The
aim of the publication is to make research evidence more readily available in an
easily digested format for: policy makers, policy implementors, practitioners and
the general public. See the website for this issue and issues 1-3:
- Nurses on the move
- Will an ageing nursing workforce work?
- Modernising Nursing Careers Policy+
Contact: Nursing Research Unit, Kings College London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3057
Email: nru@kcl.ac.uk
Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nursing/nru/policy/
Completed Research & Development - Subscription Based
12. Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations (ARCHI)
ARCHI is an information service for health professionals. It promotes the
dissemination of resources related to innovative health care delivery both in
hospitals and across the community. It also provides access to a network of
health professionals. This is achieved through the web site, an enquiry service,
seminars, a newsletter and discussion groups.
News from the September 2007 issue of the e-bulletin ARCHI Net News includes:
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Decision-making in Clinical Practice: tools to assist nurses and midwives
Delirium Prevention Model of Care
Brian Dolan Master Class - Why Patient Flow Matters
NSW Health Awards
Avoidable Admissions
SAFTE becomes Healthy at Home Model of Care
General Practice Liaison Conference Papers
Website: http://www.archi.net.au/our_services/nn/2007/sept
Disseminating Your Research - Call for papers
13. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research (CJNR): Knowledge
Translation in the Health Sciences - Submission deadline
extended
This issue (Volume 40, No 2) of CJNR, is due to be published in June 2008 and
will explore the science of knowledge translation. CJNR invite submissions of
manuscripts that report new empirical findings and build and test knowledge
translation theory empirically. They are particularly interested in manuscripts that
address intervention testing, sophisticated modelling techniques, or basic
questions in the field (e.g., measurement), or that provide empirical evidence of a
link between knowledge translation (and similar constructs such as research
utilization or innovation diffusion) and other outcomes (patient/client/resident,
provider, system).
Contact: CJNR, School of Nursing
Tel: (514) 398 4160
Email: cjnr.nursing@mcgill.ca
Website: http://cjnr.mcgill.ca/papers.html
Submission deadline: 15 November 2007
14. Israel Society for Nursing Research conference in partnership
with Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing
and Midwifery Development, "Facing the challenge of health care
systems in transition"
Jerusalem, Israel, 30 Jun - 3 Jul 2008
Contact: Conference secretariat
Email: conven4@diesenhaus.com
Website: www.internationalnursingconference.org/
Abstract deadline: extended to 15 November 2007
15. 1st Biennial international Evidence-Based nursing conference:
Advancing nursing practice through evidence
Malaysia, 25 - 28 June 2008
Contact: Jane Buncuan
Tel: +6 082 292284
Email: ebnc08_inquiry@fmhs.unimas.my
Website:
http://www.fmhs.unimas.my/EBNC08/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=
1
Abstract deadline: 4 January 2008
Events
16. OHA HealthAchieve 2007 - Inspiring Ideas and Innovation
Toronto, 5 - 7 November 2007
Contact: Kumarie Perera
Telephone: (416) 205-1361
Email: kperera@oha.com
Website: http://www.ohahealthachieve.com/
17. RCN Northern Ireland Community Children's Forum conference:
Footprints for life
Dunadry Hotel and Country Club, 14 November 2007
Contact: Anna-Marie Boyd, Conference Administrator, RCN Northern Ireland
Tel: 028 90 384 600
Email: anna-marie.boyd@rcn.org.uk
18. RCN Dermatology nursing forum conference: "Doing it all in
dermatology, diversity in skin care"
HQ, London, 28 November 2007
Contact: Priya Tekchandani, RCN Conference Organiser
Tel: 020 7647 3581
Email: dermatology@rcn.org.uk
Website: http://www.rcn.org.uk/events
19. 10th annual conference of the UK Federation of Primary Care
Research Organisations and 1st joint conference with the Primary
Care Research Network in England: "New beginnings, fresh
opportunities"
Cambridge, England, 29 - 30 November 2007
Contact: Conference Secretariat
Email: RDOffice@NeEssexpct.nhs.uk
Website: www.ukf-pcro.org/conferences.htm
20. Cancer Experiences Collaborative (CECo) Masterclass: Ethical
issues in supportive and palliative care research
Manchester, 4 December 2007
Contact: Susan Tizini
Tel: 0161 237 2159
Email: susan.tizini@manchester.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ceco.org.uk/events/events.php?mY=12-2007
21. 2nd UK Stroke Forum conference
Harrogate International Centre, 4 - 6 December 2007
UK Stroke Forum is a new coalition of around 20 organisations committed to
promoting multidisciplinary stroke research and education.
Contact: Helen Chapman, UK Stroke Forum
Tel: 01604 623 956
Email: ukstrokeforum@stroke.org.uk
Website: http://www.ukstrokeforum.org
22. RCN Paediatric Emergency Care: Developing practice for the
future conference
RCN, HQ London, 12 December 2007
Contact: Kathryn Clark, Assistant Conference and Events Manager
Tel: 020 7647 3585
Email: kathryn.clark@rcn.org.uk
Website: http://www.rcn.org.uk/events/