Wednesday, July 21, 2004: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM | |||
Knowing and Acting -- A Strategic Practitioner Focused Approach to Nursing Research and Practice Development | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Articulate the rationale behind approaches taken to managing the relationship between knowledge generation and utilisation | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Relate the outcomes of the work presented with the processes that underpin them | |||
| Clinical outcomes, effective decision making and the use of evidence in practice have been part of the nursing agenda for many years and a key focus of knowledge generation and utilisation activities in nursing research. However, while this focus prevail, the ability of our organisational systems to support nursing research in practice is still limited. There continues to be a divide between the 'knowledge generators' and the 'knowledge users', and while considerable progress has been made in the use of research in practice, less progress has been made in formally connecting academic and practice communities. This symposium argues for and demonstrates such a connection through a focus on practitioner research -- a focus that can enable the sharing of academic and practice agendas at a variety of levels. It will be argued that if we are serious about creating 'research cultures' in practice settings, the most feasible way of doing so is through practitioner research, as this approach integrates knoweldge generation with knowledge utilisation. A strategic approach to practitioner research in one organisation will be described through presentations on work being carried out by and for practitioners supported and facilitated by a professorial joint appointment. | |||
| Organizer: | Brendan McCormack, DPhil, (Oxon), BSc, Nurs | ||
| Developing an Evidence Based for Person Centred Practice Robert Garbett, MSc, BN, RN | |||
| Emancipatory Learning for Person Centred Practice Margaret Devlin, MSc, RN, Bernadette Gribben, BSc, RN, ONC | |||
| Facilitating Person-Centred Nursing in Practice Brendan McCormack, DPhil, (Oxon), BSc, Nurs, Robert Garbett, MSc, BN, RN | |||
Evidence-Based Nursing: Strategies for Improving Practice
Sigma Theta Tau International
July 21, 2004