- Foreword
- Message from Board Chair & Chief Executive
- 2023 Clinical Research Fellowships
- A message from the RBWH Foundation
- A message from The Common Good
- Metro North Research Excellence Awards
- Research stories
- ICU of the Future
- New approach ruling out pulmonary embolism
- Improving access to healthcare in the prison environment
- Safety and efficacy of peripheral versus centrally administered vasopressor infusion
- COVID-19 learnings set to inform future policy
- Telomere study could provide key to treating debilitating lung disease
- Productive Ward – Releasing time to care
- Brain organoids to revolutionise epilepsy treatment
- Reducing weight stigma in maternity care
- Parkinson’s Disease Check-In program giving people a voice
- Trial brings new treatment for common heart condition
- Teledentistry study shows promise in residential aged care
- Research fellow to boost Oral Health evidence-based care
- Study explores best approach to surgery for painful shoulder osteoarthritis
- The development and pilot testing of a stroke telerehabilitation decision toolkit
- Metro North Health delivers world-first breast scaffold surgery
- Regenerative jawbone hard at work care of collaborative Metro North Health approach
- Jamieson Trauma Institute leads e-scooter and e-bike injury research to drive community safety
- Forgotten fathers in pregnancy and obstetrics
- Putting the Spotlight on nursing and midwifery research
- Improving the health self-efficacy of stroke survivors
Putting the Spotlight on nursing and midwifery research
Putting the Spotlight on nursing and midwifery research at Redcliffe Hospital, Dr Amanda Fox and Ella Tomkins.
Research led by nurses and midwives is the focus of a new showcase event at Redcliffe Hospital.
The inaugural Nursing and Midwifery Research Spotlight was held in November 2022.
Redcliffe Hospital’s Senior Nursing and Midwifery Researcher Dr Amanda Fox said the event received a fantastic response, with more than 50 participants attending or watching online.
“Our first spotlight featured eight nursing and midwifery research presentations and eight quality improvement poster presentations,” Dr Fox said.
“Like all good research, those presentations and posters brought forth plenty of debate and discussion between academics and clinicians.”
The event originated from a desire to highlight the extensive work nurses and midwives undertake at Redcliffe Hospital – especially around quality improvement and patient outcomes.
“Redcliffe launched its Research Symposium five years ago now. That event has done wonders for showcasing the breadth of research work underway across the hospital,” Dr Fox said.
“Our Nursing and Midwifery Spotlight now sits alongside the Research Symposium as the two flagship research events at Redcliffe. The Spotlight complements the Symposium but focuses directly on nursing and midwifery research.
“The research and projects that we showcase in the Spotlight are often more nuanced and are all led by nurses and midwives. Chief investigators are more likely to be novice or early career researchers, examining authentic patient-centred research that aims to improve health outcomes.”
Dr Fox said the spotlight event was also designed to provide an opportunity for networking to support the expansion of nursing and midwifery research activity and build research capability within the profession.
“We hope to give exposure to developing researchers presenting their early work and provide encouragement and support to continue their work into the next stage.”
Dr Fox said that one of the learnings from the inaugural event was that there are so many candidates for that kind of exposure.
“We’re considering expanding the event this year to allow more to attend in person and maybe adding a keynote speaker,” she said.
Dr Fox said the next Redcliffe Nursing and Midwifery Spotlight was planned for November 2023.