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Navigating the Website
Did you know? To find content on the content-rich InspireNet website you can use the powerful search engine, which appears in the big green box near the top left of all webpages on our website ("Search this Site"). When logged in, your search includes InspireNet's database and content in your Action Teams' eCoPs.
Most people don't know about the Ctrl+F trick: if you enter a large webpage anywhere on the internet, you can find specific content by holding down the Ctrl button then pressing the F key (Command + F on a Mac). This will pop open a finder in your web browser where you can enter the word or term you're looking for. More about this is available in this article.
You can also check our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for tips.
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InspireNet's Fall Conference
►Connect 2011:
Research Partnerships in Action: Shaping Nursing Health Services in BC
November 7, 2011, Vancouver
Speakers' presentations are now available on the conference webpage.
►Connect 2012:
Save the Date: November 5, 2012, Vancouver
More details will be made available as the program is developed.
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Have your say
InspireNet held its annual Leaders' Retreat on November 8 with members of the ILC, Action Team Leaders, NRFs and representatives of MSFHR in attendance. At this meeting InspireNet's Vision, Mission and Goals were reviewed and revised as InspireNet moves into its third year of operation. We'd love your input! Please comment by January 31, 2012.
Read the current Vision, Mission & Goals
Read the revised Vision, Mission & Goals: use the comments section on this page to make any comments.
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What's new on the Blog?
InspireNet Leadership Council member and UBC faculty member Sabrina Wong answers the important question: How can practicing nurses get involved in research? The blog post includes some helpful tips.
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New! Members' Blogs
InspireNet members have blogs highlighting their projects; this webpage creates an index to easily connect to them.
The first blog we've linked to is "Infectious Ideas", a public health blog by InspireNet member Claire O'Gorman.
Are you an InspireNet member with a blog you'd like added to our index? Contact us. Are you interested in starting a blog about your research or evaluation project? Check out the page below.
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New! Ideas Incubator
Looking for a research topic? Looking for someone to assist with a research topic?
Members are able to submit ideas for research topics in the area of nursing health services research using the Share Your Ideas icon. Members can contact the submitter to discuss the idea.
Current ideas that have been submitted under this initiative:
►The role of hypnosis in chronic disease management (changing behaviours)
►Youth, high school aged 12-18, mental health awareness and stigma reduction with a specific focus as a means of substance abuse prevention
►Using tablets for patient education and care, including translation. Are women, children, youth and families open to using tablets for seeking and learning information including immigrant and refugee families? Which tablets are best for for patient education and translation?
Visit the Ideas Incubator page
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New! Forthcoming Members' ePoster Webinars
Members' ePosters were presented at Connect 2011, InspireNet's fall conference. Some members are presenting their ePoster via webinar for discussion with others.
Forthcoming ePoster webinars:
The Role of the Practice Consultant in Addressing Professional Practice Issues in Nursing:
An Integrative Literature Review
Joanne Maclaren
Feb. 1/12 @ 2:00-3:00pm
Visit the ePoster Presentations page
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Forthcoming Action Team Sessions
eHealth, eTechnologies and Informatics Action Team
Webinar: Evaluating the Benefits of a Health Mentoring Programme Supported with a Web and Mobile Phone Based Self-Monitoring Application
Elizabeth Cummings
February 28, 2012
4:30-5:30pm
Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team
TBA
John Tully, RN, BScN, MScN, Clinical Services Manager, Fraser Health
February 29, 2012
2:00-3:00pm
NEARR Action Team
TBA
February 23, 2012
2:00-3:00pm
Venue: Conference Room 7, Level 1 – Providence Bldg., St. Paul’s Hospital
(note change of location) and via webinar
Note that participation in NEARR events can be counted towards the CRNBC continuing competencies for nurses. (Participants are responsible for maintaining their own record of attendance).
Nurse Educators' Scholarship Action Team
Internationalizing nursing curriculum – what does this look like?
Robin Scobie, University of Victoria
February 13, 2012
9:00-10:00 am
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Sessions are recorded and archived on their team's eCoP.
Interested in attending via webinar or reviewing the recording? Three easy steps:
1. Join InspireNet if you're not already a member (link at top right hand corner of home page)
2. Join the Action Team (use the link under My Teams)
3. Visit the team's eCoP for WebEx login information at the session time, or visit the archives in the Team's eCoP after the session.
Tips for connecting to WebEx webinars are available here:
http://www.inspirenet.ca/Participate-Webinar
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WebEx Recordings Available
Action Team webinars are now available as archived WebEx recordings. To access a recording, join the appropriate Action Team: login to this website and select it from the My Teams list. Once you've joined the Action Team, you can select a recording (audio & video) from the archive for review - just like being there.
eHealth, eTechnologies and Informatics Action Team
►Use of a fully electronic system for nursing documentation (a European experience)
Speaker: Matthias Odenbreit
► Informatics and Nurses: From Few to All
Speaker: Lynn Nagel
►Journal Club: Agreement between common goals discussed and documented in the ICU
Speaker: Leanne Currie
►Nursing Outcomes – C-HOBIC and beyond
Speaker: Kathryn Hannah
►Nursing Informatics in BC: introduction to the issues and the role of CNIA
Speakers: Susan Sepa, Jacqui Phillips & Eithnie Richert
Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team
►Running a staff meeting: what is the draw to bring people in
Speaker: John Tully
►Dealing with Bullies
Speaker: John Tully
►Connecting, trust & relationships: building a team
Speaker: John Tully
►Getting to Know Your Workplace Culture
Speaker: John Tully
NEARR Action Team
►Developing Nursing Leadership
Maura MacPhee
►Wound Care Update: Treating Infections
Speaker: Leah Shapera
►A Public Health Approach to Falls Prevention in Canada
Speaker: Vicky Scott
►Substance abuse: tips for nurses navigating clients' recovery
Speaker: Marlee Groening
►Delirium Management: Nursing Strategies to Improve Prediction, Identification and Prevention
Speakers: Peggy Simpson & Priscilla Taipale
►Implementing a Palliative Approach in Residential Care: Utilizing RAI data and care planning triggers
Speakers: Mark Turris & Jo-Ann Tait
►Engaging Learners in Changing Current Practice: An evidence-informed approach
Speakers: Chris Salgado & Anne Beetstra
►Unstable Angina to MI: Better Understanding for the Non-cardiac Nurse
Speaker: Martha Mackay
►Nursing Informatics: Supporting Nurse Decision-making
Speaker: Leanne Currie
►Embracing the Chaos: Chart Review as a Tool in Responding to the AIDS Epidemic
Speaker: Irene Goldstone
Nurse Educators' Scholarship Action Team
►Youth to Youth Violence: Working Together to Care for Youth and Families
Speakers: Judy Lee and Dianne Symonds
►Through the Curricula Wormholes
Speaker: Linda Gomez
►Concept-Mapping: An Effective Evaluation Tool for Clinical Practice
Speaker: Jodi Brennan
Optimal Utilzation of Advanced Practice Nursing Roles Action Team
►A Discussion about Research Priorities and Advanced Practice Nursing
Speakers: Karen MacKinnon, Esther Sangster-Gormley
►Collaboration between NPs and CNSs at St. Paul’s Heart Centre
Speakers: Martha Mackay, CNS, AnneMarie Kaan, CNS, Hazel Porteous, NP
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Your experience is needed!
InspireNet member from UBC's faculty and co-leader of InspireNet's Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team, Maura MacPhee, has asked for your help:
One of my colleagues from the US, Marlene Kramer, does research on healthy work environments. She is very well-known in the nursing literature. She has been working on an editorial related to the language/terminology nurses use to describe themselves. She asked me to get some informal feedback from my BC nurse connections-and she would like to add it to her editorial.
Following are the questions:
Since 1943, the issue has been raised in the US as to whether "staff nurse" is a correct, appropriate, accurate title for the professional nurse at the bedside. The substitute name suggested most frequently has been "clinical nurse", although the following have also been suggested: direct care nurse, direct care provider, registered nurse.
1. What's the situation like in Canada? What name do you use formally (on employment documents etc.) and informally (how they are addressed in conversation).
2. Is this an issue with staff nurses at all? How do they feel about it?
3. Is there any 'official' national nursing position on this issue?
Please send your responses to Dr. Marlene Kramer.
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About InspireNet
InspireNet is a component of the BC Nursing Research Initiative funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for four years (Nov 2009 – Oct 2013).
By bringing people and knowledge together in new ways, InspireNet creates collaborative advantage and builds capacity for nursing health services research in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond.
InspireNet welcomes a diverse range of researchers, clinicians and policy makers from various professions and disciplines who seek linkages and partnerships with nursing health services researchers.
Learn more: http://www.inspirenet.ca/about
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