Educational Sessions

Thursday, February 8 • Friday, February 8 • Saturday, February 8

Thursday, February 8

2:45-4:15 pm

Educational Session I
Data Management and Analysis Issues in Clinical Nursing Research
Jean K. Brown, PhD, RN, FAAN
Patrick McNees, PhD

In this session, you'll learn about three data management and analysis issues essential to the success of clinical nursing research and clinical trials research. First, speakers will address new tools for improving data integrity and conducting research electronically. The discussion will focus on:

Electronic data capture strategy for acquiring primary dependent variable data while collecting incidental resource utilization data
Strategies and technologies used to ensure secure data acquisition, storage, transfer, and analysis
Implications of appropriate electronic data acquisition and security on data and research integrity.

This session will also provide you with strategies for dealing with missing data, and speakers will describe intent-to-treat analysis as well as additional analyses that should accompany this approach.

4:30-6 pm

Educational Session II
Lessons Learned for Developing a Research and Academic Career
Ruth McCorkle, PhD, FAAN

In this session, you'll learn about the career trajectory of becoming a faculty member—from master's, doctoral, postdoctoral, and career de-velopment training to tenured faculty member.

The session will provide a review of the essential knowledge and skills needed to become a faculty member at a research-intensive environment. It will also address the criteria to use in selecting one's initial position and the resources needed to become an independent researcher. In addition, you'll get strategies to succeed in the following:

Securing grant support
Getting promoted
Receiving tenure

In addition, senior faculty responsibilities for mentoring junior faculty are discussed.

Friday, February 9

11 am-12:30 pm

Educational Session III
Accelerating the Discovery-Development-Delivery Continuum to Improve Oncology Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes
Sandra A. Mitchell, CRNP, MScN, AOCN^®

This session will offer you tools and methods to accelerate the discovery-development-de-livery continuum by translating research into practice to improve oncology nursing-sensitive outcomes. Using components of ONS's Nursing Sensitive Outcomes Project as a paradigm, you'll learn about selecting and measuring oncology nursing-sensitive patient and family outcomes and examine an analytic framework for developing evidence-based interventions/recommendations, including:

Posing an answerable question
Retrieving relevant evidence
Critically analyzing individual studies
Synthesizing and gauging the collective strength of the evidence across studies.

This session will also illustrate knowledge transfer strategies that clinicians can apply to close the gap between research and practice, including initiatives such as standard of care/guideline development, systematic reviews, audit feed-back, opinion leader/training/coaching models, communities of practice, and dissemination/im-plementation research and participatory action research.

Saturday, February 10

11 am-12:30 pm

Education Session IV
Standpoints, Collectives, and Truthfulness: Qualitative Research in Oncology Nursing
Sarah H. Kagan, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, AOCN^®

Although it holds an important place in current and historical inquiry into phenomena of interest to oncology nurses, qualitative research often remains enigmatic and elusive for many investigators who may be interested in pursuing research using qualitative approaches. This session offers an intensive, focused examination of paradigms for inquiry common to oncology phenomena and the stances on inquiry that emerge from these paradigms. Standpoint and collective stances are compared within philosophical, interactionist, and anthropological traditions.

In this session, a discussion of framing questions and choosing methods among major traditions is followed by an outline of data sources and analytic techniques. Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods is addressed and balanced against single method approaches. This session will conclude with a brief discourse on objectivity and subjectivity in relation to judging quality and disseminating findings. Your participation will be encouraged.

2-3:30 pm

Educational Session V
Frontiers in Research
Susan L. Beck, APRN, PhD, AOCN^®, FAAN
Ellen Lavoie Smith, PhD(c), MS, APRN, AOCN^®

This session will provide a look to into the dramatic changes on the horizon in cancer control and treatment research. The new paradigm of personalized, preemptive, predictive, and participatory care will transform healthcare delivery.

You'll engage in dialogue about potential future research relevant to targeted therapies and identify strategies for successful conduct of such research in the cancer cooperative groups. Exemplars of successful nursing research through the cooperative group mechanism will provide a window to opportunities and challenges in conducting research in cooperative groups.