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Funding

InspireNet is pleased to announce that its funder, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) has approved an additional year's funding. Your network is now funded by MSFHR until October 31, 2014.

Call for Abstracts: Connect 2013

InspireNet wants to help you get your nursing health services research out to your fellow members, and to this end is providing a fun and inspiring venue to do so! We're continuing our innovative peer-reviewed digital poster contest that will help raise awareness of your work across InspireNet's membership of over 2,600 individuals. The ePoster sessions at our annual conference are consistently rated as a great part of the conference! This year's conference is September 16, in Vancouver.

Details:

►Call for ePoster Abstracts | Deadline May 24/13: http://www.inspirenet.ca/ePoster-Presentation-Program-2013

►Conference | September 16/13: http://www.inspirenet.ca/Connect-2013

New! Invitation to Participate: Focus Groups/Inteviews for the Nurse Researcher Pathway

If you are a Registered Nurse working in a practice-setting (not an academic or policy setting) in BC, you are invited to participate in a study entitled the Nurse Researcher Pathway Focus Group Study.

To thank you for your involvement in this important project, you will be given a $25 gift card and your name will be entered into a raffle for two options to win (a) reimbursement of a conference registration fee to a nursing research conference of your choice to a maximum of $500, and (b) one of five free registrations to InspireNet’s 2013 conference, Connect 2013, to be held September 16 in Vancouver, valued at $75 each.

Details: http://www.inspirenet.ca/HSRP-Focusgroup-Invite

New! From the Knowledge to Action Team

Lunch & Learn Webinar: Open to All

Do you want to learn more about knowledge translation? Bring your lunch and join us!

A new initiative from the KTA team for all members is the launching of a webinar series focused on knowledge translation. All are welcome; no need to RSVP.

►Mapping the Methods of Knowledge Synthesis
Anastasia Mallidou, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria
April 29, 2013
Recording: http://www.inspirenet.ca/KTA-Lunch-Learn-20130429

Researchers & Evaluators: Invitation to our Virtual Podium

Attention novice/ experienced researchers & evaluators!

• Do you want to get your research out?
• Would you like to share your knowledge in a particular subject area?

Step up to our virtual podium! InspireNet is now offering BC's health services research community free use of our electronic platform to produce webinars and recordings for research dissemination to InspireNet members and on the open internet.

Details: http://www.inspirenet.ca/KT-Invitation-Virtual-Podium

Become a member to gain full access to this site. To login to the site, click the blue Login button in the top right hand corner of this page;  then you can Join the Discussion and Action Teams, and explore our Members' Database.

To learn more about current InspireNet Action Teams, follow this link.

Various Action Teams organize webinars which are available only to their team members. Therefore, in order to access them you need to join the appropriate team.

To Join an Action Team and to Access your Electronic Community of Practice (eCoP) and its webinars archive: Login to the website (blue button, top right hand side) and click My Teams. The list of eCoPs you're subscribed to as well as teams you can join will appear. Select the team you want to visit or be added to.

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.

Any item on this website in blue is a hyperlink. Click on it to go to the linked page.

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.

New! Bookmark your content!

At the bottom of the webpage you'll see an option to "Add to My Library"; click this to bookmark the content for later review. Then, when you have time, click View My Content, then the My Library link in the left hand navigation to review your previously bookmarked content which will appear in a table display. You can remove items from your library on either the webpage or from your library.

Leveraging Linkedin

Many InspireNet members are leveraging professional social media using Linkedin, which provides a way to create your own professional network. If you have a Linkedin profile, you can now add the link to your InspireNet Members' database profile, making it even more powerful in making connections.

► To add your Linkedin profile to your InspireNet Members' Database profile

Insider Buzz

Write it up! Share it with others! Tell other members how you use InspireNet to support your work; pollinate your idea.

What has your network helped you do? Learn? Achieve?

Your story will inspire others to make the most of our network. Your story will be anonymous, unless you want us to share your name with others. Stories will be used on the website, in the eNews, and in reports on InspireNet's progress. Thanks for sharing!

Insider Buzz:  http://www.inspirenet.ca/insider-buzz

Action Teams' News

►New! Interdisciplinary Public Health Club (IPHC)
Organized by UBC medical students, this public health electronic community of practice (eCoP) is open to the faculty of medicine’s public health club and to other students in allied disciplines such as nursing and social work.

Details: http://www.inspirenet.ca/Interdisciplinary-Public-Health-Club-Backgrounder

►New! New Grad Transition to Professional Practice Action Team
The New Graduate Action Team is the place for British Columbia nursing graduates to connect! This Action Team provides a virtual forum for members to learn from, discuss with and connect to provincial and national resources. Current literature, including New Grad Transitional theory, will be the basis of interaction and discussion. Managers, educators, preceptors…if you work with new grads…you are welcome participants in this action team!

Details: http://www.inspirenet.ca/New-Grad-Transition-Practice-Backgrounder

►Optimal Utilization of Advanced Practice Nursing Roles Action Team

We are seeking your input about the team:

 1) Do you have thoughts about future directions for the team?
 2) Are you interested in taking on a leadership role with this team?
 3) Do you have any other input about this team?

If we don't receive team members' endorsement for continuing this team, we will commence moving it to a repository of research articles links only.

Please email us directly with your input: patherton@inspirenet.ca, or if you have questions about the team, contact Linda:Linda.Sawchenko@interiorhealth.ca

►Did you know? InspireNet's Action Teams provide you with a collegial place to learn and to network with others in practice/academia, in a password-protected environment with a smaller group of network members. We welcome you to join any of InspireNet's Action Teams.

List of all Action Teams: http://www.inspirenet.ca/Existing-Action-Teams

What's new on the Blog?

Aggie Black, Nursing Research Facilitator for Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health, and Kerri Abramson, Coordinator, Research Education & Internal Awards at VCH Research Institute have posted about the VCH Research Challenge: Developing a research program for point-of-care clinicians.

Read the InspireNet Blog

Research teams: Use InspireNet’s e-platform in new ways!

Consider 2 ways that your team can leverage InspireNet’s established and proven e-platform:

1. Research Team eCoP
If you are a prospective or newly emerging health research team with BC representation, you can apply for an InspireNet eCoP, which is closed for use by your team members only, to support the work of your team:
·         during proposal development, and if successful
·         during project work
An eCoP gives your team a ‘virtual home’ via a password protected web presence where you can share documents and collaborate online. Webconferencing supports communication through your computer.

2. Knowledge Translation (KT) eCoP
If you are an established research or knowledge translation team, you can apply for an InspireNet eCoP to support KT activities when your team is at the point of readiness to do that. An example of this is the MSFHR-funded iPANEL Team which is using an InspireNet eCoP and webinars to meet their KT goals. An eCoP supports KT by giving you an easy way to present your project via webinar/recordings of webinars, and to hold online discussions.

 Visit the detailed webpage for research teams

Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada Seeks Pilot Testers

Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada II is a four-year research project. The main objective of this project is to collect and communicate new data about how the roles, work settings and practice modes of Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Nurse Practitioners working in rural and remote locations can be addressed to improve rural/remote nursing services and access to care. In order to achieve this objective, an important first step is to pilot test the questionnaire that will be used to survey rural/remote nurses across Canada. We are seeking volunteers to pilot test our questionnaire who are currently employed in nursing and have experience working in rural/remote locations (population less than 10,000) or small towns (population 10,000 to 30,000). Volunteers should not currently be living and working in rural/remote locations (population less than 10,000) – these individuals will be eligible to participate in the main study.

Participation in the pilot study will take approximately 1 hour, and you can do it on paper or online. Your responses will be anonymous. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us to receive a package.

Read details here

Forthcoming Action Team Webinars

No need to RSVP - InspireNet members just join the appropriate Action Team and connect to the webinar at the appropriate time. Note archived recordings list below.

eHealth, eTechnologies and Informatics Action Team
Public Health Informatics
Larry Frisch
May 21
4:00-5:30

Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team
What you need to know about quality and safety in healthcare: Q&S 101
Hilary Espezel
June 26
2:00-3:00

iPANEL Action Team
Palliative approach in ethno cultural communities
Sherin Jamal
May 28
2:00-3:00

NEARR Action Team
Catheter-Associated UTIs: Prevention and Strategies
Marie McCoy, MSN, RN, Nurse Educator, Heart Centre, Providence Health Care
May 23
2:00-3:00
Venue: 
• New Lecture Theatre – Providence Bldg., St. Paul’s  Hospital (speaker present)
• and via webinar
Note that participation in NEARR events (either in person or through accessing an archived session) 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
CANCELLED: Insights from Canadian Conference on Global Health
May 20
9:00-10:00 am

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

Webinar Recordings

Webinars open to all

Organized through the Knowledge to Action Team

►Mapping the Methods of Knowledge Synthesis
Anastasia Mallidou

Organized through InspireNet's annual conferences

Connect 2012:

►Systematic Reviews: The Joanna Briggs Institute Model
Anastasia Mallidou

Connect 2011:

►Causal relationships between nurse specialty subcultures within hospitals and adverse patient events
Anastasia Mallidou

►Development and Implementation of Aboriginal Health Literacy Resources to Improve Hepatitis C Care and Support
Gail Butt

►Nursing Professional Practice – An Evolutionary Concept Analysis
Julie Fraser

►The Role of the Practice Consultant in Addressing Professional Practice Issues in Nursing:
An Integrative Literature Review
Joanne McLaren

Action Teams' Webinars

Action Team webinars are 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
►Safety and Electronic-induced Errors
Elizabeth Borycki
►Decision supports and issues of usability in information systems
Leanne Currie
►CASN (Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing) Guidelines on Informatics Competencies to be included in BSN curricula
Noreen Frisch
►The Impact of Social media in Healthcare: Rhetoric versus Reality
Peter Murray
►An Educational Strategy For Teaching Nursing Standardized Languages
Arlene Farren
►Promoting Health Equity Through Informatics
Suzanne Bakken
►Evaluating the Benefits of a Health Mentoring Programme Supported with a Web and Mobile Phone Based Self-Monitoring Application
Elizabeth Cummings
►Use of a fully electronic system for nursing documentation (a European experience)
Matthias Odenbreit
► Informatics and Nurses: From Few to All
Lynn Nagel
►Journal Club: Agreement between common goals discussed and documented in the ICU
Leanne Currie
►Nursing Outcomes – C-HOBIC and beyond
Kathryn Hannah
►Nursing Informatics in BC: introduction to the issues and the role of CNIA
Susan Sepa, Jacqui Phillips & Eithnie Richert

Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team
►Ostracism in the Workplace: Does it impact the Retention of Employees?
Angela Wolff
►Using behaviour-based language in policies to promote safety
Pamela Piddocke
►Do Differences in Work Values Result In Conflict And Burnout in the Nursing Workforce?
Angela Wolff
►Employee engagement
Trish Manning
►Integration of Staff and Patient Safety Through Care Planning
Lesley Moss
►Violence Prevention Education in the BC Health Care System
Alison Hutchison
►Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention in Residential Care: An Evidence based approach
Helen Tam
►The Looming nursing retirement tsunami: How to plan and
implement a human resource strategy for your program
John Tully
►Grievances; lessons learned going through the process
John Tully
►Running a staff meeting: what is the draw to bring people in
John Tully
►Dealing with Bullies
John Tully
►Connecting, trust & relationships: building a team
John Tully
►Getting to Know Your Workplace Culture
John Tully

iPANEL Action Team
►iPALL: identifying patients who might benefit from a palliative approach to care
Kate McNamee-Clark & Ella Garland
►The Integration of a Palliative Approach in Hospital, Residential, and Homecare Nursing: Results of a Province-Wide Survey
Rick Sawatzky & Della Roberts
►Mindfulness: The State of the Evidence for End of Life Care
Anne Bruce
►Addressing spiritual needs for people with life limiting conditions
Ibolya Agoston
►Integrating a Palliative Approach into Dementia Care
Gina Gaspard & Della Roberts
►End-of-life Communication Barriers in Patients with Heart Failure
Ella Garland
►Difficult Conversations: Psychosocial Aspects of a Palliative Approach
Elizabeth Causton
►The Nurses’ Role in Advance Care Planning:  Connecting iPANEL and ACP
Pat Porterfield & Deanna Hutchings
►A PORT in the Storm: Bringing a Palliative Approach to the Street
Grey Showler
►Exploring who, what, why and how of a palliative approach: An iPANEL presentation
Carolyn Tayler & Della Roberts

NEARR Action Team
►Patient and Family Centred Care: Providence Health Care’s Journey So Far
Sara Charlton
►Health Literacy: Key to Better Care
Carol A. Wilson & Jane McCall
►Cardiac Update: Developing Opportunities for Research & Knowledge Translation
Davina Banner‐Lukaris & Sandra Lauck
►Advance Care Planning Practice & Research: Changing the Culture of Care
Wallace Robinson & Diane Milne
►Communities of Practice at Interior Health
Donna Mendel, Linda Sawchenko, Karen Brown
►What Can We Learn about Disaster Preparedness and Response: Experiences from Concepcion, Chile
Norma Sorensen
►Nursing Student Placements: A Health Authority Perspective on Barriers and Facilitators
 Angela Wolff
►Perspective of a Palliative Approach in BC Nursing Care Setting: A Provincial Survey
Richard Sawatzky, Della Roberts, Carolyn M. Tayler
►Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada
Martha MacLeod
►Fostering Cultural Safety In Nursing Practice With People Who Use Drugs
Jane McCall & Bernie Pauly
►Building Bridges: Partnerships in HIV/AIDS Nursing Care
Scott Harrison
►Pain Management in Selected Patient Populations and Settings: Emergency Department, Older Patient and Community
Janice Muir & Anne Dewar
►Telehealth: Using an Interactive Website to Support Heart Failure and Self-management
Anne Marie Kaan
►Developing Nursing Leadership
Maura MacPhee
►Wound Care Update: Treating Infections
Leah Shapera
►A Public Health Approach to Falls Prevention in Canada
Vicky Scott
►Substance abuse: tips for nurses navigating clients' recovery
Marlee Groening
►Delirium Management: Nursing Strategies to Improve Prediction, Identification and Prevention
Peggy Simpson & Priscilla Taipale
►Implementing a Palliative Approach in Residential Care: Utilizing RAI data and care planning triggers
Mark Turris & Jo-Ann Tait
►Engaging Learners in Changing Current Practice: An evidence-informed approach
Chris Salgado & Anne Beetstra
►Unstable Angina to MI: Better Understanding for the Non-cardiac Nurse
Martha Mackay
►Nursing Informatics: Supporting Nurse Decision-making
Leanne Currie
►Embracing the Chaos: Chart Review as a Tool in Responding to the AIDS Epidemic
Irene Goldstone

Nurse Educators' Scholarship Action Team
►Group Prenatal Care Model and Evaluation
RaeAnn Hartman, Dan Woodrow, Lynne Oberik, Rachel Goodliffe
►Simulation as Relational Inquiry
Karen Silvester
►Discussion of 9-Point Action Plan from CNA National Expert Commission
Anne Sutherland Boal
►Post Colloquium & Connect follow-up
Discussion
►Continuing the Conversation: Nursing Education Connections and Collaboration
Discussion
►That's NICE: We are all Geriatric Nurses
Rose Doyle and Amandah Hoogbruin
►Nursing Education Connections and Collaboration
Penny Cash, Betty Tate, Marion Clauson
►Creating a Culture of Inquiry: An Example of an Inquiry-Based Learning Course
Gloria Bott
►Internationalizing nursing curriculum – what does this look like?
Robin Scobie
►Youth to Youth Violence: Working Together to Care for Youth and Families
Judy Lee and Dianne Symonds
►Through the Curricula Wormholes
Linda Gomez
►Concept-Mapping: An Effective Evaluation Tool for Clinical Practice
Jodi Brennan

Optimal Utilization of Advanced Practice Nursing Roles Action Team
►Current APN Updates Discussion
Maureen Shaw & Linda Sawchenko
►How Nurse Leaders Identify the Need for and Support APN Roles
David Byres
►A Discussion about Research Priorities and Advanced Practice Nursing
Karen MacKinnon, Esther Sangster-Gormley
►Collaboration between NPs and CNSs at St. Paul’s Heart Centre
Martha Mackay, CNS, AnneMarie Kaan, CNS, Hazel Porteous, NP

Students Action Team
►Discussion and Social Media in Healthcare
Tom Ying
►Discussion about future team directions