International Nursing Research Conference Research Articles

Tools, guidance and key events for general practice nurses

The article offers news briefs for general practice nurses in Great Britain as of August 1, 2021 on topics including the Germs and Governance online event, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) International Nursing Research Conference 2021, and updated coronavirus advice for travellers.

Training is a hot topic at RCN conference

The RCN International Nursing Research Conference at Sheffield Hallam University offered stimulating speeches and the chance for nurse researchers worldwide to share ideas. I was delighted to represent Nurse Researcher, and meet many of the journal’s readers and contributors.

Bright lights, bold ideas and remembering Justine Beckett

It was an honour to once again represent Nurse Researcher at the RCN International Nursing Research Conference at Oxford University in April. I enjoyed meeting so many readers and contributors. Your comments and feedback are vital and help make this journal a publication that meets the needs of readers and continues to attract a growing audience.

Why nursing research matters.

To coincide with the RCN international nursing research conference in Edinburgh we take a look at the state of nursing research. It has come a long way in a short time, but a key challenge is ensuring the aim is firmly on studies that benefit frontline practice.

Mental health and loneliness in old age.

Researcher Vasiliki Tzouvara will be presenting the results of her study into loneliness among nursing home residents at the RCN international nursing research conference in Edinburgh. She believes more initiatives should be targeted at this population.

A chance to celebrate.

In April I joined more than 400 nurse researchers at the 2014 RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference in Glasgow. It was great to catch up with some old friends and to meet some who were attending for the first time. I first came to this conference in Sheffield in 2000 and have tried to attend most years since then. I have also been involved in planning the conference as chair of the local organising committee (Cambridge 2004), as a member of the scientific committee (2002-4) and as a member of the Research Society’s steering committee (2001-10).

An insight into nursing today

Every year Nurse Researcher supports the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual International Nursing Research Conference, which is being held in Glasgow this April (www.rcn.org.uk/research2014).

Royal College of Nurses International Nursing Research Conference

Belfast, 20–22 March 2013

Dangerous staffing level defined as more than eight patients per nurse

The lives of patients are put at risk when nurses have more than eight patients in their care at one time, a leading nurse academic said last week. Peter Griffiths, the University of Southampton’s chair of health services research, said he had resisted calls for minimum staffing levels in the past, but evidence from recent studies showed that expecting one person to care for more than eight patients was dangerous. Speaking at the RCN 2013 international nursing research conference in Belfast last week, he said such staff-to-patient ratios should act as a ‘fire alarm’ to staff and managers.

A chance to ignite ideas

Lynne Pearce previews next week’s RCN international nursing research conference in Belfast and speaks to two nurses who will be presenting at the event

A chance to ignite ideas

Lynne Pearce previews next week’s RCN international nursing research conference in Belfast and speaks to two nurses who will be presenting at the event

The driving force in research

At the Royal College of Nursing annual international nursing research Conference in Harrogate it was noticeable that clinical research nurses(CRNs) had real presence. They hosted a packed symposium and presented concurrent papers and posters.

RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference

RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference

Process of conducting qualitative research

In 2007 some of us were fortunate enough to be in Dundee for the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual International Nursing Research Conference. A highlight of that conference was an enactment of the process and context debate. The chair asked for volunteers and various members of the audience came forward giving the impression that they were nurses and that it was a chance selection. The audience accepted these individuals as their representatives and once they had gathered on stage we all expected the debate to begin. But the large number of researchers in the audience gave little thought to the selection and recruitment process they had just witnessed. Then the selected representatives stood up and sang A cappella. Suddenly the context was different and we questioned the process. The point was made: process or context, or both?

Turn research into practice

I recently attended the 2010 RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference in Gateshead, hosted by the RCN Research Society. It is common for delegates to describe feeling re-energised when leaving the conference and this is crucial at a time when clinicians and researchers are facing a number of difficulties as a result of the current economic climate. It is important to remember that research and development is at the heart of the delivery of high quality health care. As budgets carry on shrinking and cuts continue to bite it is essential that research, its implementation and training to carry it out effectively are not seen as an easy target for cost-cutting. But this year’s keynote lectures left no doubt as to exactly what can be achieved if research is treated as an important and integral element of nursing care.

Reflections on preparing a poster for an RCN conference

The acceptance letter for the RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference signalled the start of my doctoral research dissemination process and my first attempt at presenting a poster. The poster is potentially an excellent springboard for discussion, since information provided on the poster will, by necessity, be superficial, leaving the interested reader to access the detail from the person most passionate, insightful, enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the research--the presenter. This paper describes the planning, preparation and presentation of the poster followed by a critical reflection on the process in the light of literature.

Research fails to focus on the basics of nursing interventions

Nurses are working in a ‘science vacuum’ because research has lost its way, the RCN International Nursing Research Conference in Cardiff heard last week.

RCN International Nursing Research Conference

RCN International Nursing Research Conference

Conferences.

RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference May 1-4 Dundee Further details: conference and events manager Kathryn Clark. Tel: 020 7647 3585. Email: Kathryn.Clark@rcn.org.uk Website: www.man.ac.uk/rcn/research2007/.

We Need to Talk. Where Is the Mental Health in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing?

We have created a new column that will focus on the state of psychiatric nursing around the world and on the increasingly important need for all of us, the family of psychiatric nurses, to begin to explore more deeply, and strengthen in more focused ways, the ties that bind all of us. We begin with an article that presents an international perspective on psychiatric illness and mental health promotion and ends by identifying common concerns often shared by the world's psychiatric nurses. Susan McCabe has a unique ability to blend the hard-core facts with a compassionate and intelligent point of view that is compelling and understandable. She is currently an associate professor at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming. She is an international speaker who presented at many international venues including the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Conference in the Virgin Islands in 2003 and the International Conference for Mental Health Nurses in Malta in 2002, a gathering that explored and discussed global issues of mental illness and psychiatric nursing. She is also frequently a keynote speaker or presenter at numerous psychiatric nursing conferences and has published extensively in several refereed journals and book chapters. She has expressed a deep desire for other psychiatric nurses to add their voices to hers and to comment and dialogue about our practice lives via the journal.