Congratulations to Brianna Richardson of Dalhousie University’s School of Nursing! Brianna was the winner of the BRIC NS Student Poster Award at Primary Health Care Research Day 2018 for her poster, “Evaluation of eHealth Resources for Parents of Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review.”
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Congratulations to Patient Partner Juanna Ricketts
BRIC NS Patient Partner, Juanna Ricketts, is being honored for her outstanding achievements for work in mental health advocacy at the 2018 Let’s Keep Talking Awards.
Picchione Lecture and Primary Health Care Research Day 2018
Please join us for two upcoming events focused on primary healthcare research and patient engagement.
Ruth Martin-Misener wins the Ethel Johns Award
Congratulations to Ruth Martin-Misener, who won the 2017 Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Ethel Johns Award.
BRIC NS Student Research Award Winners
BRIC NS, in conjunction with the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, was pleased to present 5 Student Research Awards on Thursday, September 14th, 2017 at the Dalhousie University Club.
BRIC NS Student Poster Award Winner
Congratulations to Laura Miller of Dalhousie University!
Ruth Martin-Misener receives award from Northwood Foundation
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.
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.
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.
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