Webinar: Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness

If you missed last week's excellent webinar on the translation of a transitional care nursing intervention for people with serious mental illness, check it out right here:

Upcoming Webinar: Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness

Don't forget: next Wednesday is our next webinar:

Please join for the sixth presentation in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees.  This session features Dr. Nancy Hanrahan presenting study findings regarding her team's work to translate the Transitional Care Model intervention to meet the complex needs of persons with serious mental illness in public managed care.

Information to join the webinar:

Topic: Webinar - Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)
Event Number: 571 936 565
Event Password: tcm-smi

Register now.

Learn more about this INQRI team led by Dr. Phyllis Solomon and Dr. Nancy Hanrahan.

INQRI Goes International

INQRI grantee Patti Hamilton recently had the opportunity to present on missed care and off-peak work environments to the Australian Nurse and Midwifery Federation. The findings are the result of a joint study with Midwestern State University and Flinders University. It is an international extension of Dr. Hamilton's INQRI study, "The Effect of Off-peak Hospital Environments on Nurses' Work: an Institutional Ethnography."

The research team interviewed 354 nurses and midwives in Australia using Kalisch's MISSCARE instrument to determine which items of care were commonly missed and to understand why.  Respondents noted a wide range of "missed care" items, including: bathing patients, providing adequate discharge information, handwashing, patient education, and much more.  Perceived reasons for these omissions included: communications challenges, inadequate hand-offs and number of staff, heavy admission and discharge needs, and more.

Similar to the results of Hamilton's original INQRI study with Dr. Gretchen Gemeinhardt, more issues occurred during "off-peak" shifts.

The MSU-Flinders team also found results similar to those identified in another INQRI study, conducted by Dr. Sue Letvak and Christopher Ruhm, "The Effects of Nurse Presenteeism on Quality of Care and Patient Safety." Letvak and Ruhm found that nurse "presenteeism" (nurses working when sick) was significantly associated with patient falls, medication errors and the perceived quality of care.  Hamilton and her colleagues at Flinders found that the number of shifts worked by nurses who were sick or fatigued related to the total number of missed care items reported.

Congratulations to Dr. Hamilton and her colleagues, Eileen Willis (principal investigator), Julie Henderson, Claire Verrall, Clare Harvey, Liz Abery, Luisa Toffoli, and Ian Blackman on this important work!

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Please join us for the first session in our 2012-2013 webinar series:
  

"Nurse-Led Intervention to Improve Screening and Treatment for Substance Abuse: An RCT of Hospitals"
Project Investigators: Robin Newhouse and Bonnie Spring

November 28, 2012

12:00pm-1:00pmET.

Learn more about this project.

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This session is part of a series featuring all of INQRI's grantee teams focused on translating research into practice.  Save the Dates for these upcoming sessions:

• 12/19/12 - 3p-4pET - "Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness"
• 1/31/13 - 2p-3pET - "Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes"
• 2/14/13 - 3p-4pET - "Creation of a Nurse Manager Development Program to Increase Patient Safety"
• 2/28/13 - 3p-4pET - "Implementation and Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary Nurse-Led Plan to Manage Delirium in Critically Ill Adults"
• 3/12/13 - 4p-5pET - "Implementation of a Risk Specific Fall Prevention Bundle to Reduce Falls in Hospitals" 

Do Nurses Resist Implementing Evidence-Based Improvements to Patient Care?

This morning, several INQRI grantees were featured on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital blog, responding to a recent article which found that resistance from nursing leaders and other barriers prevent nurses from implementing evidence-based practices, even when those practices could improve patient outcomes.

Click here to read the post and leave a comment.

Facilitating The Use of Research Evidence

A new issue of the Milbank Quarterly has recently been made available free of charge that is focused on facilitating the use of research evidence. This issue, which includes articles from 2002 - 2011, discussed the importance of research translation and dissemination, as well as the application and use of comparative effectiveness research. INQRI grantee, Dr. Robin Newhouse, and her colleagues' work, which discussed a transdisciplinary model of evidence-based practice, are also featured in this issue.

Click here to access the full list of articles.

Click here to directly access the article that included the work of INQRI grantee, Dr. Robin Newhouse.

Cohort 5 Projects Start TODAY

We are pleased to announce that our six newly-funded research projects begin today.

Over the past four years, INQRI grants have supported research to establish links between nursing and the quality of care delivered to people within and across a variety of health care settings. This year’s grants will support studies that focus on disseminating and implementing programs that have proven effective. Each new  team receives an 18-month grant of up to $300,000 to support a project that explores the relationship between nursing and health care with a focus on developing evidence on how to disseminate and implement programs that are known to work. INQRI will share the results of this research with policy-makers, hospital administrators and others who make decisions about how nursing resources are distributed to improve quality and patient outcomes.

Click here to learn about these teams:

Michele Balas, Ph.D., R.N., A.P.R.N.-N.P., C.C.R.N., University of Nebraska Medical Center and William Burke, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, principal investigators, Implementation and Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary Nurse-Led Plan to Manage Delirium in Critically Ill Adults;

Susan Beck, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N., University of Utah and Nancy Dunton, Ph.D., Kansas University Medical Center, principal investigators, Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes;

Linda Flynn, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Joel Cantor, Sc.D., Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, principal investigators, Creation of a Nurse Manager Development Program to Increase Patient Safety;

Nancy Hanrahan, Ph.D., R.N., University of Pennsylvania and Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, principal investigators, Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness;

Robin Newhouse, Ph.D., M.S., M.G.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore and Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Northwestern University, principal investigators, Nurse-Led Intervention to Improve Screening and Treatment for Substance Abuse: An RCT of Hospitals; and

Maria Titler, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., University of Michigan School of Nursing and Paul Conlon, Pharm.D., J.D., Trinity Health, principal investigators, Implementation of a Risk Specific Fall Prevention Bundle to Reduce Falls in Hospitals.

Implementation Science and QUERI - a New Cyber Seminar

The VA's Health Services Research & Development Service (HSR&D) offers a series of free cyber seminars and they have just updated their list of sessions.  Click here to register for upcoming sessions or view archives.

Given the focus of INQRI's latest call for proposals, we think this one is of particular interest:

Tuesday, September 14, 12:00pm ET

QUERI Implementation Research
Health Systems Evidence – Evidence to Support Policymaking and Management (Part 1)
by Lori Greco, MHSc
Kaelan Moat, MSc.
Click here to register.

INQRI also hosted a webinar focused on Implementation Science and QUERI.  This past April, Brian Mittman, Ph.D., VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), hosted a session for us as part of our webinar series on translation.  You can access the PowerPoint Presentation and Webinar Recording on the INQRI website.

Recap of the Donaghue Foundation's "Beyond Eureka!" Conference

Highlights from Donaghue's "Beyond Eureka!" conference held on April 21, 2010 are now available on the Donaghue website.

More than 350 conference attendees explored the theme of Why is getting healthy so hard? And what we can do about it with keynote speakers Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and bestselling author, and Val Curtis, cultural anthropologist from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a founder of the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap.

Click here to watch video clips and see photos from the event.


For more information about the Donaghue Foundation and past conferences please visit their website or email the Foundation at conference@donaghue.org.

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On July 8 and 9, 2009, the Donaghue Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative hosted a health funders forum in Princeton, NJ. For more information on this unique event, "Creating Opportunities and Breaking Down Barriers to Adoption," please contact Heather Kelley.

Implementation Science and QUERI

Special thanks to Brian Mittman for today's webinar presentation on the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI).  If you missed the session, you can download the slides or view the presentation via the INQRI website:

PowerPoint Presentation

Webinar Recording

The Translation Series has been co-sponsored by the INQRI program and the Donague Foundation.  For more information on this collaboration, please visit the Funders Forum blog.

Last Translation Webinar TOMORROW

Thank you to everyone who has made our translation webinar series a success! Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end... the last session will be held tomorrow:

Implementation Science and QUERI
Speaker: Brian Mittman, Ph.D., VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)
Date: April 20, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

The Translation Series has been co-sponsored by the INQRI program and the Donaghue Foundation, continuing the partnership formed with last year's Funders Forum.

If you missed the earlier sessions in this series, please click here.

Please contact Heather Kelley with any questions.

Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?

Special thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for today's webinar presentation, "Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?" If you missed the session, please visit the INQRI website to either:

Download the slides as a PDF, or
View the presentation from your desktop.

The Translation Series is co-sponsored by the Donaghue Foundation. For more information on INQRI's collaboration with Donaghue, please visit the Funders Forum blog.

The next session in this series will be held on April 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET. "Implementation Science and QUERI" will be presented by Brian Mittman, Ph.D., VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI).
Click here to register.

Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?

Looking for tips on how to successfully translate research into practice? Then join us one week from today for the next webinar in our Translation Series:

Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?

Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., Yale University

April 7, 2010: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST

Click here to register.

The Translation Series is co-sponsored by the Donaghue Foundation. For more information on INQRI's collaboration with Donaghue, please visit the Funders Forum blog.

Translating Research into Practice: The Transitional Care Model

Special thanks to INQRI director Mary Naylor and INQRI national advisory committee member Randall Krakauer for presenting yesterday's webinar: "Translating Research into Practice: The Transitional Care Model."  Thank you, also, to all of our very engaged participants.  The event was well attended and we enjoyed a rich question and answer period. 

If you missed the webinar, you can view it on your desktop or download the slides.

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This session was part of the "Translation Series," co-sponsored by the Donaghue Foundation.  Our next session will be held in April:

"Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?"

Speaker: Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., Yale University

Date: April 7, 2010: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST

Click here to register.

For more information on our collaboration with Donaghue, please click here.

The First Translation Webinar was a Success

Thank you to Ben Milder, Elizabeth Wenk and Andrew Peters from Burness Communications for kicking off our Translation webinar series!

If you missed their presentation on how to "Translate Research into Policy," please click here to view the presentation on your desktop. You can also download or request the related materials:

• Findings vs. Message
• Practical Tips to Influence Policy and Change the World
• To receive the Connect Manual, please email Heather Kelley

This series is co-sponsored by the INQRI program and the Donaghue Foundation.

Upcoming Sessions:

Implementing the Transitional Care Model
Speakers: Mary Naylor, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, University of Pennsylvania and Randall Krakauer, M.D., Aetna
Date: March 2, 2010: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Diffusion of New Ideas - What Works?
Speaker: Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., Yale University
Date: April 7, 2010: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Implementation Science and QUERI
Speaker: Brian Mittman, Ph.D., VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)
Date: April 20, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

Next Webinar - Monday

You've gone through the process of writing your grant proposal, made it through the various application stages, received your funding, completed your work and now wonder to yourself... "Now what?"


If you are wondering about how to reach policy makers and how to encourage evidence-based decision-making, tune in next Monday for the first INQRI-Donaghue webinar:

Translating Research into Policy

Speaker: Ben Milder, Burness Communications

Date: January 25, 2010: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST

Click here to register.