Across the year we facilitate a number of programs to equip nurses with the requisite knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes to investigate and improve practice.
Programs facilitated by the Nursing Reasearch Team include:
BEST Practice Program
Generously supported by The RCH Foundation, the BEST (Building Evidence with Support to Transform Practice) Program provides nurses with the opportunity to develop their own research project through the competence in
- gathering and reviewing the evidence related to an issue arising from practice,
- facilitating the translation of evidence into practice, and
- identifying and addressing contextual factors to enable practice change.
The BEST Practice Program involves nominated nurses coming together for ten program days over six months to address the clinical issue identified from their area of practice. In addition to active participation in the program days, we provide ongoing support for participants. All projects undertaken as part of the BEST Practice Program aligned with the strategic focus of The RCH.
2024/2025 BEST Practice Program
- Expression of interest have closed. Applications for the BEST Program 25/26 are expected to open May 2025.
Past BESTies
Previous Best Practice participants have gone on to present nationally and internationally, publish in peer reviewed journals and successfully implement a clinical practice change.
Publications on past BEST practice projects include:
- T. Dentry, J. O'Neill, S. Raj, et al., Exploring the family experience of children aged 2–4 years receiving daily vosoritide
injections: A ..., Journal of Pediatric Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2024.04.007
- Cini, C. (2022). Characterizing chylothorax in the pediatric population with Congenital Heart Disease. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology, 67, 101548.
- Devsam, B. U., & Kinney, S. (2021). The clinical utility of the pain assessment tool in ventilated, sedated, and muscle-relaxed neonates. Australian Critical Care, 34(4), 333-339.
Tuesday @ 2
Tuesday at 2 will look a little different in 2024 and will not run every week. Tuesday's @ 2 will include additional special event series new for 2024.
Upcoming Nursing Research programs include:
September
- Sep 3, 1400-1445: Tested or Tradition (Butterfly, Dolphin & Day Medical)
- Sep 26, 1400-1445: Nursing Bioethics (special event series)
October
- Oct 1, 1400-1445: Tested or Tradition (Platypus, Kookaburra & Koala)
- Oct 22, 1400-1445: Medical Legal (special event series)
November
- Nov 12, 1400-1445 Tested or Tradition (Rosella, ED, PeriOp)
December
- Dec 03, 1400-1500: Christmas Quiz
For tested or tradition presented you can access the resources on SharePoint: ToT Resources
For questions on special nursing series and tested or tradition please contact Nursing Research. For questions regarding nursing updates/strategy please contact Nursing Education.
Workshops
The below workshops are for campus staff only.
Nursing Clinical Guideline Writing Workshop
- Writing an Evidence Based Guideline a resource in Learning Hero (RCH staff access only). In learning hero you can also sign up for face-to-face workshops to learn about the processes of NCEC, literature searching and stakeholders, through the above learning hero link.
- Next workshop: Sep 12, 0830-1630: Guideline Writing Workshop
Other
Ethics for Clinical Practice Program
Formerly Engaging Nurses in Clinical Ethics (ENCE) run through the Children's Bioethics Centre. For more information see: Children's Bioethics Centre : Nursing ethics (rch.org.au)
STEP to Research and STEP to Qualitative Research
Contact education.hub@rch.org.au for more information.
Need more information? Contact the team at:
nursing.research@rch.org.au