The course will provide an overview of current Canadian Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and their use in practice, policy and decision-making. We will explore the KT knowledge and skills required to create a crosscutting stream in an undergraduate nursing curriculum. The focus will be on the practical application within a curriculum and provide a working template to achieve this aim of evidence-informed practice.
Audience: Nurse educators
Delivery: Online (Zoom & Moodle)
Timeframe: 3 sessions
To be confirmed
By the end of this course, participants will have developed the following competencies:
$125 CAD for members
$150 CAD for non-members
| Margaret B. Harrison BN, MHA, PhD (Nursing)
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario |
Claire Betker RN, PhD (Nursing), CCHN(C), FCAN
Scientific Director National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
Margaret B. Harrison
After many years of practice, Marg returned to school to pursue research in nursing practice. Her PhD (Nursing) from McMaster University concentrated on continuity of care for complex populations using guideline recommendations as the foundation for multi-interventions within randomized controlled trials. This approach was grounded in the early 1990s at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario where, in her professional practice and research role, she was challenged by senior administration to improve specific quality of care issues, e.g. central line care, preparation of repeatedly hospitalized children. Working with care teams, the dialogue always began with a critical review of external evidence to formulate a new local approach based on best available evidence. Marg continued as Nurse Specialist Research and Evaluation at a large teaching facility while working closely with the quality portfolio to conduct implementation studies driven by quality/risk issues, e.g. pressure injury prevention and management practices, transitional care of patients with heart failure.
During this time, the term “knowledge translation” became formalized and emerged as a distinct research paradigm. In the community, Marg undertook large-scale regional projects to implement evidence-informed care for the population with chronic wounds, beginning a long series of nursing research initiatives.
At Queen’s University (2000–2014), she was Scientific Director, Senior Scientist with the Practice and Research (PRN) Group, a unique practice–academic partnership dedicated to producing and using evidence for practice. She led the Queen’s Joanna Briggs Collaboration focused on syntheses and rigorous methods for practice use. As Professor Emerita, Marg continues this work voluntarily with community partners.
Claire Betker
A registered nurse, Claire Betker began her career in southwestern Manitoba at a rural single-nurse public health office. Claire has worked in public health, home care and primary health care in a variety of positions and levels – at a local, regional, provincial and national level. Claire is currently the Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH). The NCCDH, hosted by St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia, is one of six knowledge translation centres funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada to support integration and uptake of relevant evidence into practice, decision and policymaking.
Claire has a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Manitoba, a Masters of Nursing from the University of Calgary and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Saskatchewan. Her PhD work focused on the capacity for public health leadership to advance health equity in Canada.
Claire is CNA certified in Community Health Nursing. She is a past president of the Canadian Nurses Association and the Community Health Nurses of Canada as well as a past Chair of the Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba.
Cancellations
Participants are responsible for access to any course materials, including articles and textbooks.
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This course is available in English only.
If you have any questions or would like more information about the course, please contact Julia Thomas, Education Policy Coordinator by email at jthomas@casn.ca