Enhancing research interest and collaboration in the interdisciplinary context of emergency care

Short, Alison E; Ahern, Nicole; Morris, Jenny

doi:10.1080/13561820802675566

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“…These findings compared nearly equivalently to those found in similar populations of allied health practitioners [10,13] and were similar to those found in interdisciplinary populations involving medical, nursing and allied health clinicians [12,28]. However, perhaps understandably these individual research skill findings were lower than when compared to populations already participating or leading research [12].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Research capacity and culture in podiatry: early observations within Queensland Health

Lazzarini

Geraghty

Kinnear

et al. 2013

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

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BackgroundResearch is a major driver of health care improvement and evidence-based practice is becoming the foundation of health care delivery. For health professions to develop within emerging models of health care delivery, it would seem imperative to develop and monitor the research capacity and evidence-based literacy of the health care workforce. This observational paper aims to report the research capacity levels of statewide populations of public-sector podiatrists at two different time points twelve-months apart.MethodsThe Research Capacity & Culture (RCC) survey was electronically distributed to all Queensland Health (Australia) employed podiatrists in January 2011 (n = 58) and January 2012 (n = 60). The RCC is a validated tool designed to measure indicators of research skill in health professionals. Participants rate skill levels against each individual, team and organisation statement on a 10-point scale (one = lowest, ten = highest). Chi-squared and Mann Whitney U tests were used to determine any differences between the results of the two survey samples. A minimum significance of p < 0.05 was used throughout.ResultsThirty-seven (64%) podiatrists responded to the 2011 survey and 33 (55%) the 2012 survey. The 2011 survey respondents reported low skill levels (Median < 4) on most aspects of individual research aspects, except for their ability to locate and critically review research literature (Median > 6). Whereas, most reported their organisation’s skills to perform and support research at much higher levels (Median > 6). The 2012 survey respondents reported significantly higher skill ratings compared to the 2011 survey in individuals’ ability to secure research funding, submit ethics applications, and provide research advice, plus, in their organisation’s skills to support, fund, monitor, mentor and engage universities to partner their research (p < 0.05).ConclusionsThis study appears to report the research capacity levels of the largest populations of podiatrists published. The 2011 survey findings indicate podiatrists have similarly low research capacity skill levels to those reported in the allied health literature. The 2012 survey, compared to the 2011 survey, suggests podiatrists perceived higher skills and support to initiate research in 2012. This improvement coincided with the implementation of research capacity building strategies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Research capacity and culture in podiatry: early observations within Queensland Health

Lazzarini

Geraghty

Kinnear

et al. 2013

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

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“…They experienced support in setting and implementing their own research agendas, which Rolfe (2007) has identified as being important for the development of nursing scholarship. In this study, the link between the academic community and the practitioner community was strengthened, as the nurses' research projects were embedded in the realities of healthcare delivery, which has also been shown by Chan et al (2010), Short et al (2009) and others. The nurses conducted research (the projects), while acquiring academic credits (the education).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 55%

“…In this study, the link between the academic community and the practitioner community was strengthened, as the nurses' research projects were embedded in the realities of healthcare delivery, which has also been shown by Chan et al . (), Short et al () and others. The nurses conducted research (the projects), while acquiring academic credits (the education).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Nurses' experiences of participation in a research and development programme

Bäck‐Pettersson

Jensen

Kylén³

et al. 2012

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives. To describe clinical nurses' experience of participating in a Research and Development (R&D) programme and its influence on their research interest and ability to conduct and apply nursing research. Background. To stimulate nurses' research interest and to overcome barriers for building research capacity in nursing, there is a need for sustainable research programmes. A two-year programme was designed for nurses, to take part in both an academic education for master and research seminars and workshops to conduct a research project from idea to publication. Design. A qualitative approach using using focus group interviews. Methods. Registered nurses (n = 12) with a bachelor's degree in nursing, participated. Data were collected in focus group interviews, after one year and when the programme ended. Content analysis was used to analyse the data. Results. The findings consist of two themes: being a traveller in the world of nursing research, which included three categories, and experiencing professional growth as a result of nursing research training, in both cases focusing on the experience of students involved in a cohesive programme which included four categories: discovering new dimensions of clinical nursing practice; selected and confirmed; supported by professional others; development of professional self-concept. Conclusions. To support early career researchers, there is a need for strong leadership, an organisational and supportive infrastructure underpinning research capability building in nurses. In this context, research strategies, programmes and collaboration between leaders of academia and clinical institutions appear to be essential. Relevance to clinical practice. The R&D programme illustrates an effective way of stimulating nurses' lifelong learning by building the capacity to conduct and apply nursing research in clinical practice. The structure of the programme can be used as a model in other contexts.

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“…Residents held the ED environment and the need for more knowledge and training responsible for medical errors. Another topic in ED was the need to develop staff's research skills [55,58]. Some studies only had emergency medicine physicians as a peripheral research focus.…”

Section: Teaching Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative Research on Emergency Medicine Physicians: A Literature Review

Paltved¹,

Musaeus²

2012

IJCM

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Aim: This study aims to review the qualitative research studying Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians in Emergency Departments (ED). Background: Qualitative research aims to study complex social phenomena by other means than quantification often through verbal or observational investigation. EM is a highly complex medical and social environment that has been investigated through qualitative methodologies. A literature review is needed to show what qualitative studies illuminate about EM and why this work is important to develop EM as a complex organizational and communicative practice. Methods: Electronic databases of English peer-reviewed articles were searched from 1971 to 2012 using Medline through PubMed and PsychINFO. This search was supplemented with hand-searches of Academic Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Journal from 1999 to 2012 and cross references were reviewed. The key words used were emergency medicine, qualitative, ethnography, observation, interview, video, anthropology, simulation, and simulation-based. Results: 820 papers were identified and 46 studies were included in this review. This literature review found that the reviewed qualitative studies on EM physicians were designed using the following strategies of inquiry: Ethnography, mixed methods, action research, grounded theory, phenomenology, content analysis, discourse analysis, and critical incident analysis. The reviewed studies were categorized into four main themes: Education and training, communication, professional roles, and organizational factors, and into 12 sub-themes. Conclusion: The strength of qualitative research is its ability to grasp and operationalize complex relations within EM. Although qualitative research methodologies have gained in rigor in recent years and few researchers would question their value in studying complex medical and social phenomena, rigorous design in qualitative studies is needed. Qualitative research studies that stick with one strategy of inquiry that they follow closely are likely to yield more valid studies.<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p>

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Enhancing research interest and collaboration in the interdisciplinary context of emergency care

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Research capacity and culture in podiatry: early observations within Queensland Health

Research capacity and culture in podiatry: early observations within Queensland Health

Nurses' experiences of participation in a research and development programme

Qualitative Research on Emergency Medicine Physicians: A Literature Review

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