Patient Safety Survey

Dear nursing student

I wish to invite you to participate in a research project about patient safety competence among Australian nursing students. Your university is one of 8 across Australia that has been invited to participate in this study.

Participation in this study involves completing an anonymous online survey that will take approximately 15 minutes.

Please take the time to complete the survey, the information you provide will be important in expanding understanding about how patient safety learning evolves at various stages of nurse training, and will be useful for reforming and developing patient safety education.

To connect to the survey, please click on the link below.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PAT_SAFETY

After completing the survey you will be invited to enter a draw for the chance to win a $250 Coles/Myer gift card as a thank you for sharing your information.

Regards

Prof. Jane Mills, Director CNMR

Smart phones, smart nurses

Professional and productive use of social media for nurses was the topic of conversation at an Australian College of Nurses/ James Cook University professional development event.

Scepticism about nursing students' use of social media at work prompted Cairns nurse Nicole Morris to come along to an Australian College of Nurses (ACN) education and networking event organised by James Cook University this month.

But she left with a determination to open a Twitter account as soon as she got home.

The workshop, The use of social media in nursing, was developed to help health professionals better understand how, when, where and why they might use social media platforms at work, and which ones.

Presentations were delivered by JCU lecturer Paul McNamara and JCU graduate and emerging nurse leader Evan Casella.

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Join the club!

Undergraduate student nurses are being invited to join a journal club to better understand and use research.

A new journal club for undergraduate nursing students at James Cook University is helping to strengthen the links between research and clinical practice.

The club is led by Associate Professor and Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research (CNMR) member David Lindsay, and is open to staff and to students from all year levels.

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CNMR News: Going Bush

Rural and remote health services and James Cook University are working to expose greater numbers of nursing students to the rewards and possibilities of working in the bush.

A new rural clinical placement elective in the Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) degree has been embraced by JCU students and healthcare providers in remote and rural locations.

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Changing lives through scholarship

Professor of Nursing Melanie Birks talks about promoting scholarship in teaching and learning.

The CNMR’s Professor Melanie Birks participated in the visiting scholar program at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, London recently where she was asked to give a presentation about promoting scholarship in teaching and learning. Here, we talk to Professor Birks about scholarship.

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/news/changing-lives-through-scholarship

Public lecture: The Past Present and Future of Nursing Education in Australia - Prof Melanie Birks - 25th June (Cairns)

The School invites you to attend a Public Lecture by Professor Melanie Birks to be held at the Cairns Institute Lecture Theatre, JCU Cairns Campus, on Wednesday 25th June 2014 commencing at 5:00 pm.

The Past, Present and Future of Nursing Education in Australia

All welcome - light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

RSVP to nursing@jcu.edu.au

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois

The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI 2014) titled Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research was held at the University of Illinois between the 22nd and 24th May. Representing JCU's CNMR were A/Professor Jane Mills, Professor Melanie Birks, Ms Adele Baldwin, Ms Ylona Chun Tie and Ms Jennifer Chamberlain - Salaun. There were 1200 registrants at the conference, which makes it the largest qualitative research conference in the world.

Commencing on Wednesday, members attended a wide range of half day workshops by renown qualitative researchers including Professor Johnny Saldana, Professor Jan Morse, Professors Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis amongst others. The workshops offered a valuable opportunity for both experienced and novice researchers to interact and learn from experts in their particular field. That evening, the Poster Exhibition included two findings papers from recent CNMR publications. Professor Birks and A/Professor Mills then attended a SAGE Publications Book Signing for their recent publication Qualitative Methodology: A practical guide.

On Thursday and Friday, members presented 10 conference papers that mainly focused on methodology and methods. There were several highlights, the first of which was Dr Intansari Nurjannah's paper on when to translate in a grounded theory study. Ylona Chun Tie gave a presentation on practical philosophy which generated a lot of interesting discussion. Jennifer Chamberlain Salaun presented her PhD findings 'unplugged' due to a technical failure. This session ended up being mesmerising as Jennifer sat and told the story of her grounded theory to a very warm and receptive audience. Thursday, saw the CNMR Panel which included five presentations from current PhD candidates. This was an excellent session which took the theme of methods of data generation and collection in a grounded theory study. Adele Baldwin was a mainstay with her comprehensive argument against the centrality of interviews in a qualitative study, and the identification of a range of different options that could result in a deeper data set.

Overall, the conference provided many intellectual challenges for participants as researchers presented an enormous variety of ideas, findings and research designs. The two keynotes from Professor Patti Lather and Professor Uwe Flick were thought provoking in relation to where we go next with Qualitative Data Analysis 2.0. All of the attendees were very grateful for the opportunity to attend such and event and plan to feedback to the College of Health Sciences over the next 6 months through both informal presentations and newsletter items.

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/news/international-congress-of-qualitative-inquiry-at-the-university-of-illinois

Transition to Practice for Early Career RNs - Lessons from the RN - SOAR Program

A team from the CNMR visited Marquette University's School of Nursing and Midwifery in Milwaukee to find out more about a well established program that they facilitate for transition to practice registered nurses (RNs) in rural areas of the US.

The RN - SOAR program (Supporting, Onboarding and Retention of Rural Nurses Residency Program) focuses on supporting new RNs in their first year of practice in a rural health facility. Funded by the US Government's Health Resources and Administration grant program, RN - SOAR provides a 360 degree program of support for the RN, their preceptor and their nurse unit manager.

Led by A/Professor Mills, the team spent the day with Professor Marilyn Bratt and Sandi Van Den Heuvel learning about this excellent program. The time spent at Marquette also allowed for Ms Ylona Chun Tie (BNSc Co-ordinator) to meet with her counterpart to find about about their clinical placement model, and for the whole team including Professor Birks, Ms Adele Baldwin and Ms Jennifer Chamberlain - Salaun to tour Marquette's new state of the art clinical simulation centre. The CNMR is very grateful to everyone at Marquette for making us so welcome and sharing so many of their excellent resources with us.

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/news/transition-to-practice-for-early-career-rns-lessons-from-the-rn-soar-program

Disaster preparedness researchers seeking study participants

Cyclone Ita

North Queensland residents are being asked to share with researchers the ways they prepared for the 2013-2014 cyclone season to better inform emergency planning and management in the future.

James Cook University, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition is conducting a research study in disaster preparedness and is seeking study participants from the coastal areas between Cairns and Townsville.

The purpose of the 'Community Disaster Preparedness’ research project is to find out what preparation activities residents of Queensland coastal areas between Cairns and Townsville took prior to and during the 2013-2014 cyclone season.

Finding out the level of preparedness in the community during the 2013-2014 cyclone season can better inform future emergency and disaster response planning and management.

If you would like to help, please visit: https://surveymonkey.com/s/DisasterPreparedness2013_2014

Or ask your librarian for a hardcopy of the survey. Participation in this study is voluntary and anonymous and requires completion of a survey questionnaire. This will take approximately 15 minutes.

For all enquiries regarding this project please contact: caryn.west@jcu.edu.au

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/news/disaster-preparedness-researchers-seeking-study-participants

CNMR Researchers Visit New York Schools of Nursing

On Monday and Tuesday this week Professor Melanie Birks, A/Professor Jane Mills and Dr Karen Hoare from the University of Auckland visited the New York University College of Nursing, and the Trinitas School of Nursing in New Jersey.

Monday's seminar at NYU was very well attended with over 40 nurse academics and clinicians coming to hear Melanie and Jane speak on A new generation of qualitative researchers. Earlier that day, the team had met with Professor Chris Kovner and Dr Maja Djukic to find out more about the RN Work Study which commenced in 2006. This longitudinal study follows the career paths of 2005 graduates from 36 US states in order to find out more about factors impacting on retention, career development and satisfaction. Following the seminar, the team were given a guided tour of the NYC nursing labs by Monina Franco-Tantuico.

On Tuesday Trinitas School of Nursing in New Jersey welcomed the team with a wonderful morning tea. Around 10 nurse academics attended this session where Jane presented the findings of a study inspired by a previous visit to Trinitas. The Putting it Together: unfolding case studies and high fidelity simulation in 1st year BNSc curriculum was funded by a Carrick Insititute Grant in 2010. Trinitas academics were very interested to find out how their pedagogical model of teaching simulation influenced JCU's School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition in the refresh of the BNSc which incorporated findings from this study.

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/news/cnmr-researchers-visit-new-york-schools-of-nursing

International Nurses Day Breakfast - Tuesday 6 May (Cairns)

ACN QLD Far North Region: International Nurses Day and International Day of the Midwife combined breakfast

Informatics and Nursing: what does the future hold?

Speaker: Glynda Summers FACN; Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery – Informatics,

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service.

Date: Tuesday, 6 May 2014  |  Time: 7:00am – 9:00am

Venue: Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns, Crystal Twig Room,
209-217 Abbott Street, Cairns QLD

Cost: $25.00 per person

Register online at https://online.rcna.org.au/RCNAOnline/frmEventDetails.aspx?id=66

Indigenous Futures Lead Dr Lynore Geia #IHMayDay Indigenous Health Tweet Fest - 1 May

The final #IHMayDay program for tomorrow (Thursday 1^st May) has been posted on the Croakey Blog site (extract following):

As previously covered at Croakey, this Thursday (tomorrow) has been declared a day of action and listening on Twitter on all matters to do with the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  Croakey readers are invited to follow the discussions at #IHMayDay. Also@Croakeyblog will aim to provide thorough Twitter coverage, and will only be RT-ing tweets carrying the hashtag #IHMayDay tomorrow.  The idea is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to share their views and knowledge about some of the wide-ranging issues affecting health, and for non-Indigenous people to participate by RT-ing and listening.  The event is timely given predicted cuts to Indigenous programs predicted for the Federal Budget.  The day’s discussions will be moderated by James Cook University nursing academic Dr Lynore Geia – who had the idea for the event and who is also tweeting this week for @IndigenousX (read more here in her profile at The Guardian).

See http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/04/30/a-full-program-of-indigenous-health-discussions-coming-your-way-for-ihmayday/  for the full program.

Workshop: Fun, games and grounded theory - An introduction to grounded theory and methods for health-oriented research, Georgetown University - 15 May

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/events/workshop-fun-games-and-grounded-theory-an-introduction-to-grounded-theory-and-methods-for-health-oriented-research

A New Generation of Qualitative Researchers: NYU College of Nursing - 12 May

In this invited seminar, A/Prof Jane Mills and Prof Melanie Birks will discuss key debates in qualitative research which differ globally. Generational difference is one way of explaining the origins of different debates and issues in qualitative research. Using Mannheim’s theory of generational difference, contrasting positions on these debates are will be examined in this seminar. Within each generation there are generational units who have concrete bonds that give voice to particular issues of concern. Important issues for each generational category will be identified and discussed in relation to the literature. Future directions for qualitative research will also considered. As we move into the future, translating qualitative research findings into the language of interventions and implementation is becoming more important. Assessing the impact of qualitative research equates to examining what was done, why it was done, what difference it made and how the research made it happen. This lecture will identify the challenges implicit in grappling with the concept of impact as a qualitative researcher, while offering some suggested solutions.

http://research.jcu.edu.au/cnmr/news-and-events/events/a-new-generation-of-qualitative-researchers-nyu-college-of-nursing

Visiting Scholar Professor Maggie Kovach's Visit Tremendous Success

The Center for Nursing and Midwifery Research was delighted to host Professor Maggie Kovach last week on the Cairns Campus at JCU.  Maggie was very generous with her time and provided a one day workshop, individual meetings with higher degree research candidates, a public lecture and short meetings with both the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition staff in Townsville and the APHCRI Centers for Research Excellence network.

If you go to our Flickr Photostream, you can see some photos from Maggie's visit http://flic.kr/ps/2tke9G.

Many thanks to the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences who assisted in sponsoring a number of the activities, and to the University of Saskatchewan for their support of Maggie's visit.