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Barbara Davies RN PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director Nursing Best
Practice Research Unit
Teaching 2007-2008
• Graduate Program
– NSG 7102 Research Methods and Design Problems in
Nursing
• with Dr. Kirsten Woodend
– HSR 6120 Knowledge Transfer in Health Services Policy
and Research (January 2008 Thursdays at 1300-1600)
• With Dr. Ian Graham Vice President KT at CIHR
• Undergraduate Program (Post-RN)
– NSG 4110 Family Dynamics
– NSG 4320 Leadership
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Ontario Training Centre for Heath Services
Policy and Research
• Funding to obtain a Type 2 Diploma
• 9 credits (includes summer research institute, policy
practicum, an inter-professional course)
• Main web site
– http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/otc-hsr/
– McMaster-lead with Lakehead, Laurentian,
Ottawa, Toronto, York Universities
• uOttawa Program
– Administration
– Epidemiology
– Nursing
– Population Health
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Scholarly and Professional Activities
• Affiliations
– Institute of Population Health
– Clinical Epidemiology Unit, OHRI
– Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology-Division of
Maternal Fetal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
• PPPESO Executive Committee and Board of Directors
• Editorial Board
– Worldviews in Evidence-Based Nursing, UK
– International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare,
Australia
– Midwifery International
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Graduate Student Supervision and Topics
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Post-Doctoral Fellow
– Dr. Evangeline Danseco: Barriers and Facilitators to guideline
implementation
PhD
– Wendy Gifford: Nursing leadership for knowledge transfer
MScN
– Isabelle St Pierre: Organizational factors related to the revision
of policies and procedures for implementation of guidelines
– Shannon Mantha: Maternal confidence within the postpartum
period
– Laura Payant: Factors related to nurses’ intentions to provide
support to women in labour
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Research
• Nursing Best Practice Research Unit
– Collaboration RNAO + University of Ottawa
– Designing measures to reflect recommendations in BPG
– Program grant for system change for evidence-informed
nursing service delivery models (exemplary cases)
• Interventions to support successful sustained research
transfer in nursing practice and health care
– Premiers Research Excellence Award 2004-2009
www.nbpru.ca
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Evidence-Informed Decision Network
For PhD students, Post-Docs, Faculty
Purpose: engage in debate, networking, peer support, and/or
scholarly activities.
– Critical analysis of diverse sources of evidence and its
influence on decision making;
– Examination of processes for decision making by nurses and
their contribution to team-based decision making
– Approaches to supporting patients/public in making
informed, values-based decisions
– Methods to translate nursing knowledge for use by the
public, healthcare providers, and decision makers
Tuesday September 11 0800-0900
Perkins on St Laurent
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