麻豆传媒

Some of Nova Scotia鈥檚 tiniest and most fragile patients live at the IWK Health Centre鈥檚 neonatal unit where they not only receive the best of care, they are helping to improve it. 听These babies and their families are being studied by 麻豆传媒 Assistant Professor Marsha Campbell-Yeo. 听Evidence gathered by Dr. Campbell-Yeo and her team is transforming care for premature babies at the IWK, who now spend more time outside their incubators, cuddling skin-to-skin with their parents.

鈥淲e have proven that skin-to-skin contact reduces pain and improves outcomes for babies, especially critically-ill newborns,鈥� says Dr. Campbell-Yeo, who is also a neonatal nurse practitioner at the IWK, and one of very few Nurse Clinician Scientists in Canada. Her work is an example of the groundbreaking research being done at 麻豆传媒, and the kind of research that will be the focus of the Centre for Transformative Nursing and Health Research, which opens on Tuesday November 24^th.

鈥溌槎勾�媒鈥檚 School of Nursing researchers are already having a significant impact鈥攁nd that鈥檚 being recognized with the designation of our new Centre,鈥� says Director Dr. Gail Tomblin Murphy. 鈥淲e鈥檙e launching the Centre for Transformative Nursing and Health Research so we can build on our existing partnerships, work on larger collaborative projects鈥攁nd ultimately do more to improve patient care and to influence innovation in health policy.鈥� 听

The Centre for Transformative Nursing and Health Research is the first nursing-led research centre in Atlantic Canada and will focus on four key research areas: the health needs of people; health workforce and health systems planning; marginalized populations and health equity; and knowledge translation.

鈥淭he opening of the Centre is exciting,鈥� says Dr. Campbell-Yeo.听 鈥淚t will give 麻豆传媒 a stronger identity and will catapult us into the top five nursing schools in the country. We need to be competitive at the national level because we are competing with the top schools for research funding.听 It will also help us attract the best and brightest students.听 They will want to come to a centre of nursing excellence.鈥�

鈥淭he Centre will do powerful things for nursing,鈥� echoes Britney Benoit, a second year student in Dal鈥檚 Nursing PhD program.听 鈥淣ursing is not always viewed as a big contributor in health research.听 Having this Centre will increase the visibility and impact of nursing research and will draw more students into a research path. It will also be energizing to work with people from different backgrounds鈥攚e can produce stronger work with more people working together.鈥�

鈥淥ur mission at the Centre for Transformative Nursing is to have an impact locally, nationally and globally,鈥� emphasizes Dr. Tomblin Murphy, who is also the lead for the World Health Organization/PAHO Collaborating Centre in Health Workforce Planning and Research.

Researchers with 麻豆传媒鈥檚 School of Nursing are proving the power of working together.听 They have been awarded $14 million in total research funding for a wide range of collaborative, patient-centered projects including: Dr. Marilyn MacDonald鈥檚 research into homecare, medication use and patient safety; Dr. Margot Latimer鈥檚 research into how Aboriginal children express pain and implications for access to care; Dr. Janet Curran鈥檚 research aimed at improving communication with parents as their children are being discharged from emergency departments; Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener鈥檚 research into integration of nurse practitioners in community-based healthcare; and Dr. Campbell-Yeo鈥檚 research into the power of a parent鈥檚 touch.

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