Partnership between patients, nurse leaders and researchers: Outcomes of a web-based KT strategy for hospital discharge planning and care transitions in oncology.

A research project brought together patient partners, nurse leaders from six clinical settings in Quebec and researchers to develop and test a web technology, the Forum for Knowledge Exchange (FKE), in order to improve discharge planning practices and oncological care transitions. The project led to the creation of a FKE accessible to the oncology sector of the Francophonie. It revealed an innovative strategy of knowledge transfer (KT) based on the FKE and was fed by collaborative work among partners, where the patient partners played a vital role. The results highlighted the importance, for health research, of giving a voice to patient partners in close collaboration with clinicians and researchers so that clinical practices are better adapted to the actual needs of patients and of their relatives.

Expérience de fréquentation des lieux publics par des personnes âgées ayant subi un TCC en présence d'un accompagnateur-citoyen: projet pilote.

This pilot project aims to test and see the relevance of the direct observation method to collect data on the barriers and facilitators to attending public places by seniors with TBI. The study is based on the conceptual framework VADA WHO which focuses on the development of friendly built and technological environments for seniors. Three elderly people participated in the study, recruited from an ongoing project, The Citizen Intervention in Community Living (APIC), in the presence of their personalized attendant. The study shows the feasibility of the method in terms of its acceptability and resources mobilized. It shows its relevance to access additional data that would have been difficult to obtain using others methods (e.g., semi-structured interview), such as the identification of the strategies used by the participants to address the obstacles encountered (avoidance, travel planning, use of physical and preventative support of the personalized attendant).

[The links between research and practice: knowledge transfer, the use of evidence-based data and the renewal of practices]. / Liens entre recherche et pratique: echange des savoirs, utilisation des données probantes et renouvellement des pratiques.

Nurses in clinical settings still do not fully rely on scientific knowledge to guide their practices and only rarely resort to the literature to find answers to their questions or clinical concerns. The sustainable implementation of projects that use knowledge founded on scientific evidence presents an important challenge that nursing research must address. The goal of this article is to present a strategy adopted by the Réseau infirmier et partenaires de soins (RI-PS) of the Université de Montréal (Québec). The strategy's aim is to promote the optimal and perennial use of scientific knowledge in clinical settings and to incorporate the use of best practices based on scientific evidence to their operating procedure. First, we will present a brief overview of the evolution of nursing research and its impacts, followed by an inventory of the success factors of the use of scientific knowledge in practical settings, and finally the presentation of a model, Implementation Science, on which the RI-PS strategy relies for its projects. We also outline the network and one of its developments, the knowledge transfer portal and healthcare partners (PES).