Abstract
While the scientific community has fully embraced new information and communication technologies, health facilities have everything to gain in following suit. However this does not happen without difficulty, although many access barriers continue to exist in institutions. A collaborative partnership research project research project of the Nursing network, a partner in care/Le Reseau infirmier un partenaire de soins (NNPIC/RIUPS) of the Universite de Montreal, Developing a clinical innovation in oncology: For a better continuum of care and services for cancer patients, has clearly highlighted this difficulty. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief illustration of the potential of using a web-based knowledge transfer strategy as part of a cooperative project as well as one of its key challenges arising from access barriers in institutions.
Highlights
While the scientific community has fully embraced new information and communication technologies, health facilities have everything to gain in following suit
The aim was to improve practices related to hospital discharge planning and care transitions in oncology
The project, which was based on the Implementation Science Model of Fixsen et al [4], consisted of two phases: The first preparatory phase aimed at deploying the FKE infrastructure and its implementation in the multidisciplinary clinical teams to transform practices in discharge planning and oncology care transitions
Summary
This innovation aimed at bringing together oncology nurses leaders and their multidisciplinary clinical teams from clinical settings in the Greater Montreal that agreed to combine their expertise with patient partners and researchers in order to develop and test an interactive web 2.0 technology, the Forum for Knowledge Exchange (FKE) [1,2,3]. The aim was to improve practices related to hospital discharge planning and care transitions in oncology. The project, which was based on the Implementation Science Model of Fixsen et al [4], consisted of two phases: The first preparatory phase aimed at deploying the FKE infrastructure and its implementation in the multidisciplinary clinical teams to transform practices in discharge planning and oncology care transitions. Each team was supported by a nurse leader, who closely collaborated on different project committees, including the knowledge user group (KUG). This group comprised the research team, nurse leaders from clinical settings and patient partners. While the project has produced many positive results, it has been considerably constrained by technological challenges in partner facilities
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