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Program: BCNRI
Health services researcher pathway
A project team led by Dr. Noreen Frisch, co-leader of InspireNet and director of the University of Victoria’s School of Nursing, will develop a pathway that will clearly describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes nurses hold at various stages of their careers that contribute to a culture of research that impacts quality of care.
As a career trajectory for nurses, the pathway will guide progress through research levels, from finding, interpreting, and applying health services research evidence in their work, to working with established researchers, to pursuing a career as a health services researcher.
Innovation in Clinical Nursing
Placements for Learners
GET Prog for Acute Care Nursing
Enhancing Education Capacity
Culturally safe dementia care: Building nursing capacity to work with First Nations elders with memory loss
This community-based research project will build capacity amongst nurses to care for First Nations Elders with memory loss in a culturally safe way. The objectives are:
- To translate First Nations perspectives on dementia research findings into a knowledge translation intervention for front-line nursing staff based on traditional storytelling with Elders;
- To determine the knowledge, skills and values of nursing staff with respect to cultural safety and dementia care before and after the traditional storytelling intervention; and
- To assess the effectiveness of the KT intervention in terms of changing nursing practice and improving care for First Nations Elders with memory loss.
Fostering cultural safety in nursing practice with people experiencing problematic substance use
The purpose of this project is to generate new knowledge that will foster understanding of what constitutes safe nursing care in acute care settings for people who are experiencing problematic substance use and social disadvantage. The target audience will be practicing nurses who provide care to people experiencing substance use, as well as health care administrators, nursing leaders and policy makers. The key research question is: What is culturally safe care from the perspective of patients and nurses in acute care settings and what supports the delivery of culturally safe care?
Impacts of a Palliative Approach for Nursing (IPAN)
This practice-relevant nursing health services research initiative will address the questions:
- How and in which contexts can a palliative approach better meet the needs of patients with a life-limiting illness and their family members?
- How can a palliative approach guide the development of innovations in health care delivery systems to better support nursing practice and the health system in British Columbia?
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The Utilization and Impact of Nurse Pracitioners and Physician Assistants: A Research Synthesis
The objective of this 12-month project is to use a research synthesis approach to develop the knowledge required to inform decision makers charged with the implementation of nurse practitioner and physician assistant roles.
Some areas to be addressed through this synthesis are:
- What are the varying scopes of practice and practice autonomy for both roles?
- What population health needs are best served by which role?
- Are there barriers to implementing both roles simultaneously?
- Can both roles effectively support the BC health care system and, if so, how?