Canadian Nurses Foundation

1
Canadian Nurses Foundation Nursing Best
Practice Research Unit

• RNAO Best Practice GuidelineResearch
  CompetitionProposal Writing Teleconference
• January 19, 2009
• 100pm 300pm

2
Background on CNF

• Founded in 1962 by the Canadian Nurses
  Association.
• Non-for-profit charitable organisation.
• Supports the nursing community across Canada.
• Committed to advancing nursing knowledge.
• Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors of 11
  members.

3
CNF . . . Advancing nursing knowledge

• Mission
• CNF will build and sustain diverse partnerships
  with organizations and individuals to promote
  increased funding to advance nursing knowledge
  through the provision of research grants, awards,
  and scholarships.
• Vision
• Canadas preeminent Foundation dedicated to the
  advancement of nursing knowledge, leading to
  superior patient outcomes.

4
Nursing Care Partnership (NCP)

• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
  (CHSRF) grant 2003-2008 (from the Nursing
  Research Fund)
• 2.5 million renewable
• practice-based research on nursing care issues
• CNF and CHSRF collaborated initially to design,
  implement and evaluate the NCP program.
• Based forming partnerships across the country
• NCP providing 1 for every 2 from partners
• 2.5 million generated a total investment of 7
  million

5
Nursing Care Partnership (NCP)

• Goal 1 Increase funding for clinical nursing
  care
• Goal 2 Advance nursing care research and build
  capacity
• Goal 3 Raise awareness among nursing research
  stakeholders about research funding opportunities
  and disseminate the results of clinical research
  projects

6
Nursing Care Partnership (NCP)

• RNAO BPG Research competition established in 2005
• Unique model for funding practice-based research
• Foundation/Association/Academic/Clinical
• Aligns perfectly with CNFs priorities
• focus on applied practice-based research
• conducted in care settings
• fully supported by health organizations

7
NBPRU Who are we?Founding Partners

• University of Ottawa School of Nursing

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES Investigators/Decision
Makers (Senior, Associate and Affiliate)
42 Organizational Members 7
8
Nursing Best Practice Research Unit(NBPRU) Our
Mission

• Bringing the best knowledge to
• nursing and healthcare
• Enhancing practice
• and improving health
• and system
• outcomes.

9
Nursing Best Practice Research Unit

• Our research program is focused on best
• practice bringing knowledge to the
• nursing community that is evidence-based.
• Our strategic goals and research activities
• focus on the implementation and impact of
• clinical and healthy workplace guidelines.

10
Background CNF BPG competition

• Funders
• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
• Vision
• A strong Canadian healthcare system driven by
  solid, research-informed management and policy
  decisions
• Strategy
• Bring researchers and decision-makers together
  regularly to understand each others goals and
  professional culture, influence each others
  work, and forge new partnerships
• Objectives
• To create high quality new research
• To increase the number and nature of applied
  health services and nursing researchers

11
Background Partners

• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• A solid platform of research-based guidelines
  available to be used throughout Canada for
  nursing research development
• Nursing Best Practice Research Unit
• A diverse research team with quantitative and
  qualitative experience in guideline evaluation
  and other related research

12
NCP Merit Review Panel

• Consists of one Chair and at least three members,
  2 of whom are researchers and 1 of whom holds a
  decision-making position in the health care field
• Geographic representation
• At least one member is bilingual

13
NCP Merit Review Process

• Each proposal reviewed by 2 NCP merit review
  panel members and at least 2 external reviewers
• Reviewed according to written criteria
• Ratings below 2.5 project automatically
  eliminated

14
Scientific Merit and Potential Impact

• Clarity of the research questions and objectives
• Literature Review
• Appropriateness of methodology and analytical
  frame
• Experience and skills of the investigative team
• Infrastructure support
• Feasibility
• Ethics
• Extent and Appropriateness of dissemination plan
• Budget

15
Davies Dos

• Check out websites
• CNF http//www.cnf-fiic.ca/
• What teams and topics have been funded?
• NBPRU http//www.nbpru.ca/
• What has been published in the last year ? ( i.e.
  annual report)
• Are the evaluation tools applicable?
• asthma, VAD, restraints, diabetes, various
  interview guides
• CHSRF http//www.chsrf.ca/home_e.php3
• What nursing research is already done?
• RNAO http//www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID861SiteN
  odeID133
• What guidelines, implementation tools and
  resources are already posted?

16
Davies Dos

• 2. Think Canadian
• Review panel from CNF
• Relevance, applicability

17
Davies Dos

• 3. Think Research
• Obtain considerable research expertise so that
  you can address reviewer guidelines
• Investigator
• Consultation
• Methods
• Clinical Topics
• Measures
• Analysis

18
Dos

• Develop a clear description of purpose of the
  research project
• Develop clear research objectives and questions
• Think results that will lead to new knowledge
  impact nursing practice
• Develop a good review/synthesis of literature to
  support research
• Have clear definitions of terms/variables
• Use methodology that is appropriate and will
  produce credible/generalizable results

19
Dos

• Put together a strong team think
  multidiciplinary
• Build capacity novice researcher on team
• Demonstrate collaboration with decision-makers
• Ensure relevancy to the organization be
  realistic with timeframe
• Address ethical considerations
• Have a plan to clearly show how results will be
  disseminated
• Have a well justified budget

20
Davies Donts

• Leave it to the last minute
• Proposal development timeline
• Draft again and again
• Keep writing while others provide feedback
• No proposal is ever perfect, acknowledge
  limitations

21
Davies Donts
2. Leave out patient/client outcomes,
perspectives, experiences
22
Davies Donts

• 3. Forget Rigour
• Reliability and validity of tools
• Credibility, confirmability, dependability,
  transferability

http//www.elsevier.ca/ReadingResearch
23
Donts

• Develop a proposal that is too ambitious for
  resources/time allocated
• Leave out a reference list to support the
  literature review
• Undervelop or insufficiently explained the
  methodology
• Leave out rationale for sample size
• Leave out the data collection tool if one
  required
• Leave out the consent if one required

24
Donts

• Leave the review members to guess who is part of
  the team/who will be doing what?
• Omit providing letters of support
• Leave out important information about the ethics
  review process
• Forget to show how results will be disseminated
  how this would lead to next steps
• Forget to clearly delineate/reflect costs
  inkind vs in cash

25
Conclusion

• Enjoy
• Creating a proposal From idea to action
• Selecting appropriate research designs A
  challenging puzzle
• Developing new partnerships New ways of thinking
  and working
• Innovating by developing new nursing knowledge
  that may actually improve the health of
  Canadians