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2009 NHMRC NICS CENA Evidence into Action Prize
Congratulations to Margaret Villella at the Sandringham Hospital emergency department (Melbourne) on receiving the NHMRC NICS ‘Evidence into Action prize’ at the recent 2009 College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) 7th International Conference for Emergency Nursing, for her paper Implementing a Burns Protocol into the Emergency Department.
Please visit the Evidence into Action Prize page for more information.
NICS Fellowships 2010 round
The 2010 round of NICS Fellowships is expected to open in the upcoming months.
When the round opens a call for applications will be posted to this homepage and will direct you to further information on applying for a NICS Fellowship.
This year all applicants will need to apply for their Fellowship through an NHMRC Registered Administering Institution. For further information please visit the NHMRC website.
If you would like to be kept informed we encourage you to subscribe to NICS Update or NHMRC’s newsletter Tracker, you can do this by visiting NHMRC’s subscription page.
Clinical Evidence paper published in ‘Implementation Science’
It is widely believed that to encourage evidence-based practice, GPs require evidence-based resources in a summarised and accessible format. To explore this further, NICS undertook a randomised controlled study involving 14,000 GPs, to determine the effectiveness of different interventions designed to encourage general practitioners to accept an offer of free access to an online evidence-based resource.
View it online at http://www.implementationscience.com/content/4/1/68
NICS Update Survey
NICS Update evaluation survey NICS is evaluating our monthly newsletter, NICS Update. If you subscribe to this newsletter and would like to share your views with us (anonymously), please click on this link and complete our short survey.
All responses will be greatly appreciated. If you have any queries about the questions in this survey, please contact us at nicspr@nhmrc.gov.au
Click here to take part in the NICS Update survey.
National Protocol for Donation after Cardiac Death
NICS is developing a National Protocol for Donation after Cardiac Death on behalf of the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority. Public consultation has now closed and submissions are being considered by the Donation after Cardiac Death Committee. The final protocol is expected to be completed in 2010.
In the spotlight
NICS Fellow receives Award for Excellence
NICS wishes to congratulate Dr Bridget Hamilton, NICS Fellow 2007, for receiving an Award for Excellence, at the University of Melbourne’s 2009 Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Awards ceremony, on 23 September 2009.
Dr Hamilton, Director of Nursing at St Vincent’s Mental Health, received this prestigious award for her NICS implementation project: reducing the use of seclusion in acute inpatient mental health care.
Ceremony guests learnt first hand how Dr Hamilton, through her implementation project, reduced the use of seclusion in clinical practice and sustained this reduction, by more than 50 per cent, at a busy inpatient mental health unit. Dr Hamilton was able to achieve her project goals through the support of St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne University and NICS.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards are designed to reward excellence in knowledge transfer, assist and promote the development of knowledge transfer projects and to support visits from outstanding knowledge transfer practitioners. NICS is pleased to partner with Melbourne University in support of Dr Hamilton’s implementation project.
In print
What happens to evidence-practice gaps over time?
We have taken a fresh look at what progress has been made with closing the gaps identified in our first Gaps Report (2004). The findings are in our latest publication, Evidence-Practice Gaps Report Volume 1: A review of developments 2004-2007.
An evidence-based approach to changing practice: preventing deep vein thrombosis
An article highlighting the effectiveness of using graduated compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in surgical patients has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2008;336;943-944).
The authors, Dr Sue Phillips (NHMRC Research Implementation Program), Dr Martin Gallagher (George Institute for International Health) and Dr Heather Buchan (NHMRC), call for consistent thromboprophylaxis policies in hospitals to clarify who is responsible for assessing and managing the risk of DVT in admitted patients.
