2015 IRGNI Inaugural Webinar
Free
Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. EST
Overview:
This inaugural skill and career development webinar, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues Interest Group, was designed to provide health services researchers with successful strategies for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funding process. PCORI was established by the Affordable Care Act to improve the quality of care and information available to clinicians, caregivers, and patients in order to make better informed health decisions. The Institute awards research grants with the goal of generative evidence that points to best practices in health care.
Dr. Mary Naylor, a renowned nurse researcher, advised webinar participants about essential elements of a PCORI application. Dr. Naylor provided an overview of her PCORI funded study, “Project ACHIEVE.” Project ARCHIVE aims to identify the transitional care services and outcomes that matter most to patients and caregivers, evaluate the comparative effectiveness of ongoing multi-disciplinary efforts at improving care transitions, and develop recommendations on best practices for the design, implementation and large-scale national spread of highly effective, patient-centered care transition programs.
Faculty: Heather Tubbs Cooley, Ph.D., RN, (moderator) and Mary Naylor, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Learning Objectives:
By the conclusion of this webinar, participants:
- Recognized the elements of a successful PCORI application;
- Learned about the importance of interdisciplinary research in PCORI applications; and
- Understood the components of Project ACHIEVE and its work to better health outcomes
Course Level: 101 (Introductory)
Acknowledgement: This webinar was brought to you by AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues Interest Group. For questions, please email irgni@academyhealth.org
Faculty
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Heather Tubbs Cooley, Ph.D., R.N., is an assistant professor and nurse scientist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an affiliated faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. Dr. Tubbs Cooley studies effects of nursing care on pediatric outcomes with a particular focus on nursing care quality in neonatal intensive care environments. She is the recipient of a Cincinnati Children’s mentored career development grant designed to support her innovative research that examines missed nursing care as a predictor of clinical and safety outcomes in neonatal intensive care units. Dr. Tubbs Cooley conducts her research in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, and operations staff with expertise in clinical and health services research, patient safety, human factors and ergonomics, informatics, and quality improvement. She is also a co-investigator on several additional studies including a PCORI contract to evaluate the effect of nurse home visits on pediatric hospital-to-home transitions. Dr. Tubbs Cooley has been a member of AcademyHealth since 2006 and currently serves on the IRGNI Advisory Board (Member-at-Large), the National Child Health Policy Conference advisory committee, and the Article-of-the-Year Award selection committee.
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Mary Naylor, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1989, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. She is also the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, aimed at generating, disseminating, and translating research to understand how nurses contribute to quality patient care. Dr. Naylor was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine in 2005. She also is a member of the RAND Health Board, the National Quality Forum Board of Directors and the founding-chair of the Board of the Long-Term Quality Alliance. She was appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in 2010. |
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