Current Action Teams & Closed Teams

What are current Action Teams?

InspireNet Action Teams bring groups of members together on specific areas of interest in nursing health services research. If you are curious about current open InspireNet Action Teams and might want to join one, the links below provide a summary of each team's area of interest and activity.

To learn more about Action Teams:

For details about how Action Teams and their Electronic Communities of Practice (eCoPs) are formed and operate, please visit the Actions Team Page. The information provided there will also help you to form your own Action Team if you see an area of interest not already developed.

Current InspireNet Action Teams (open to all members):

►e-health, e-technologies and Informatics & Nursing Informatics Student Journal Club
       Leaders: Noreen Frisch, Elizabeth Borycki
►First Nations Health
      Leaders: Denise Thomas, Janine Stevenson
►Healthy Workplace Climate
Leader: Maura MacPhee
►Interdisciplinary Public Health Club (IPHC)
      Leaders: David Kim, Stephan Saad
►iPANEL: Initiative for a Palliative Approach in Nursing: Evidence & Leadership
Leader: Ami Bitschy
►NEARR: Nursing Education and Research Rounds
Leader: Aggie Black
►Nurse Educators’ Scholarship
Leaders: Penny Cash, Betty Tate
►New Grad Transition to Professional Practice
        Leaders: Tracy Lust, Heather Straight
►Optimal utilization of advanced practice nursing roles
Leader: Linda Sawchenko
►Practice-Based Research
Leaders: Aggie Black, Charlene Ronquillo
►Students
Leaders: Maura MacPhee, Jae-Young Kwon,Tom Ying

Other teams:

►Knowledge to Action Team
Leaders: Grace Mickelson, Anastasia Mallidou

This team is open to InspireNet members who may want to learn more about how the KTA Core Team is working on KT initiatives. More information is available here.

Closed teams:

For more information about how closed teams are formed, click here.

Information about a team can be obtained by contacting the Team Leader(s).

►2014 Ethel Johns Nursing Research Forum Planning Team
       Leader: Aggie Black (VCH/PHC Nursing Research Facilitator)
►BCNU/HEABC/Health Authorities Team
       Leader: Maura MacPhee (UBC)
►Canadian Association for Nurses in Hemophilia Care Research Group (CANHC)
       Leader: Leanne Currie (UBC)
►Collegial Partnerships Research
       Leaders: Betty Tate (North Island College), Penny Cash (UBC Okanagan)
►EVIP Innovations (EVIP-In): Enhancing Evidence Informed Practice (EVIP) Among Point-of-Care Nurses in Interior Health
Leader: Katrina Plamondon (Interior Health Nursing Research Facilitator)
►Health Services Researcher Pathway
Leaders: Sherry Hamilton (PHSA), Noreen Frisch (UVic)
►Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
        Leader: Debbie Mcdougall (PHSA)
►Leadership and Health System Re-Design
        PI: Graham Dickson (RRU)
►Nurse-to-nurse Report Research Team
Leader: Katrina Plamondon (Interior Health Nursing Research Facilitator)
►Optimizing residential LTC facilities in BC
Leader: Anastasia Mallidou (UVic)
►PLACES: Placements for Learners - Assessing Capacity and Effectiveness of Clinical Sites
Leaders: Angela Wolff (Fraser Health), Leanne Currie (UBC)
►Providence Health Care Practice-Based Research Challenge
Leader: Aggie Black (Providence Health Care Nursing Research Facilitator)
►Separation Anxiety
        Leaders: Sarah Rourke (FH), Brianne Bourdon and Ruth Stevens
►Systematic Review
       Leader: Anastasia Mallidou (UVic)
►Vancouver Coastal Health Practice-Based Research Challenge
Leader: Aggie Black (Vancouver Coastal Health Nursing Research Facilitator)
►WHISP-OH (Women's Health Initiative Supporting Pregnancy - Oral Health)
        Leader: Lenora Marcellus (UVic)

To Join a Team:

If you'd like to join a team, login to the website, select the My Teams tab, and select the team you want to join from the blue box in the left hand navigation ("Please add me to…")

Webinars:

Some InspireNet Action Teams hold educational webinars via webconferencing (using Cisco WebEx). Forthcoming webinars are listed on the homepage at www.inspirenet.ca, along with instructions about how to join an Action Team (necessary to access webinars and their recordings).

Tips for connecting to WebEx webinars are available here:
http://www.inspirenet.ca/Participate-Webinar