Invitation to Participate in National Landmark Study
Hospitals and academic partners are invited to submit applications to participate in this one-year study. See further information on the STAR-2 brochure and under Improvement Studies. Email requests for applications to ImprovementScienceResearch@ISRN.n …
TeamSTEPPS® Master Training Workshop
TeamSTEPPS® Master Training Workshop FUTURE DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED San Antonio, TX The Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice is hosting a TeamSTEPPS® Master Training Workshop. The 2-day workshop reflects newly-released 2.0 curriculum updates from …
Collaboration Opportunity: Invitation to Participate in the ISRN Landmark Network Study
The ISRN Invites You to Participate in the Landmark Network Study: Small Troubles, Adaptive Responses: Frontline Nurse Engagement in Quality Improvement Application Deadline: March 6, 2015 at 5:00pm CST Small Troubles, Adaptive Responses (STAR): …
Alternatives to RCTs
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) have long been the gold standard in clinical research representing the best of what is known of research methodology. However, improvement science is a novel field of research with requirements for advanced methodolo …
Pediatric Special Interest Group
The first meeting of the Improvement Science Research Network’s Pediatric Special Interest Group (SIG) was held at a breakfast meeting during the 2013 Improvement Science Summit. This SIG was created to provide a forum for individuals who are intereste …
Pediatric Special Interest Group
The first meeting of the Improvement Science Research Network’s Pediatric Special Interest Group (SIG) was held at a breakfast meeting during the 2013 Improvement Science Summit. This SIG was created to provide a forum for individuals who are intereste …
Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)
Many organizations struggle with the implementation of known best practices and quality improvement interventions. Much of the difficulty in implementing effective strategies stems from a lack of understanding organizational context. An intervention th …
Summer Institutes on Quality Improvement – Accepting Abstracts
Summer Institutes on Quality Improvement August 5-8, 2014 | San Antonio, TX | Grand Hyatt Riverwalk Clinicians, Educators and Researchers share your EBP successes. Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, managers, and health professionals are invited to su …
Academic-Practice Partnerships: A Backbone for Improvement
The 2010 Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Report generated a sense of urgency to strengthen nursing practice and directed attention to the future of nursing education. The goals outlined in this report, including the increase in the number of …
Avoiding Workarounds through Systems Design – Anita Tucker Answers Your Questions
On October 30, 2013, Anita Tucker, ISRN Steering Council member and Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School presented a web seminar titled “Avoiding Workarounds through Systems Design.” Below are questions that cou …
November TeamSTEPPS Workshop Open for Enrollment
Contributed by Mike Mulcahey, MA, AT/ATC, NREMT, Xavier University Sports Medicine The TeamSTEPPS Master Training Workshop provided an invaluable opportunity for me to break down my own unique silo and engage so many other healthcare professionals. Th …
Improvement Science Summit – A Participants Point of View
Article Contributed by Eileen Engh, MSN, RN-BC, CPN ISRN Research Associate, STAR-2 study PI and participant ISRN 2013 Improvement Science Summit It’s not often that one conference can achieve so many goals and introduce so many new ideas relevant and …
ISRN – A Partner on the Road to Magnet
Article Contributed by Vivian Low, MPH, RN-BC, FPCNA, ISRN Steering Council Member “So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. …
Member Spotlight Sonya Osborne
Last year, Sonya R. Osborne joined the ISRN Coordinating Center for six weeks as an international visiting scholar. “The advantage to me, as a researcher in the early stages of my post-doctoral career, is that I was immersed in a nationally funded rese …
Student Program
“The Summit student program will help create awareness [of improvement science] in students before they graduate and enter the workforce.” – Lily Thomas, PhD, RN, Vice President, System Nursing Research, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, IS …
