On April 29, 2017 Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener (School of Nursing, Dalhousie University) received a Live More Distinction Award for Research from the Northwood Foundation for her research on nurse practitioners in long-term care.
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Seamless and Supportive Care in the Final Year of Life: A BRIC NS Knowledge Synthesis Project
Few times in life are as fraught with challenge and emotion as the final year of life—whether a person is in the end stages of a fatal illness or is simply failing as they grow older and increasingly frail under the burden of multiple chronic conditions.
BRIC NS seeks community input on research
Members of the public joined some of Nova Scotia’s leading primary healthcare researchers to help set the direction for future initiatives in this vitally important area of health research. BRIC NS, Building Research for Integrated Primary Healthcare, hosted the citizen-engagement event in the community room of the Barrington Street Superstore in Halifax on April 26, 2017.
Upcoming Workshop: Evaluating KT Interventions
Spring Project Incubator
BRIC NS held its first Project Incubator of 2017 on Monday, March 27. With a focus on project development, particularly for projects that will be submitted to one of the upcoming SPOR PIHCI Network funding opportunities, groups divided into three key priority areas:
- Meeting mental health care needs in the community through primary healthcare
- Chronic disease management
- Self-management
- Coordination through a central location (such as a wellness centre)
- Community focused care for seniors and those approaching the end of life
Moving ideas into action, outcomes for the meeting included:
- The development of core project teams and ownership for projects
- Fine tuning of research questions
- The outline of plans and next steps
- Identifying which other team members are needed (e.g. knowledge users, patients, clinicians, policy makers, other research expertise, etc.)
Projects looking for new team members, ways to spread the research, and/or are moving on to the next phase of development were also presented.
Attendees are encouraged to connect with BRIC NS as they move their projects forward.
Community Open House
Do you have experience as a patient or caregiver? Do you want to be involved on a health research team or become an advisor? Join BRIC NS for a community open house on Wednesday, April 26 to find out more.
Quality in Primary Healthcare Seminar Series
Fragmentation in Health Care of Children in Foster Care: A Primary Care Medical Home Model
It is well-recognized that children and youth in foster care are a vulnerable and marginalized population with complex health care needs. This presentation will discuss a primary care medical home model being piloted in the Preston communities near Halifax, NS.
Primary Healthcare Research Day
Registration is now open for Primary Healthcare Research Day 2017!
Primary Healthcare Research Day, now in its fourth year, is an opportunity for learners, decision-makers, citizens, and researchers from a variety of disciplines to come together and celebrate primary healthcare research happening across the province. Research Day is presented by Collaborative Research in Primary Health Care (CoR-PHC). The day is focused on the role that research has in improving primary healthcare service and delivery.
BRIC NS is pleased to offer and award for best student poster given at Primary Healthcare Research Day.
Quality in Primary Health Care Seminar Series
Update and early findings from TRANSFORMATION: Patient PHC experience in NS, BC and ON
The TRANSFORMATION Study aims to improve both the science of primary care performance measurement and the ways those results are reported to practitioners, decision-makers, and the public to encourage improvement within the system.
BRIC NS Student Award
BRIC NS is pleased to announce that we have partnered with the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation to offer the BRIC NS Student Research Award as a supplementary award to the Scotia Scholars Award. Two awards of $1500 will be given annually to Master’s/PhD students working in primary and integrated health care research in an area related to the mandate of BRIC NS.
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