Summary of the meeting on Friday

Hey Guys,

Good job everyone on Friday--and thank you for making time out to come while you were working/after your night shift/had to go to a night shift/and i-could-have-slept-in-today.

Our next task is to put everything together, and then send it to me so I can co ordinate/start putting things together in a proposal.. So basically, whatever was outlined in  the previous UHN email regarding your sub topics, and this post, please take it in view of how you would be writing your section for the proposal. (I will explain as I go along this post). Please, I would STRONGLY, suggest to read the proposal that was already in our blue folder given to us at the research days. It will give you an overall idea of how everything should be put together.

A little review on our meeting

IN ADDITION TO YOUR ALREADY OUTLINED TASKS IN UHN EMAIL (previously sent), in summray, I would like to add a few add on's which appeared after our Friday meeting.

1) Paulette, Jess & Liz
-Good job about finding everything out! We did all agree on the Ning---it is certianly the most cost effective and seems easy to use. Liz brought up a good point that we should make the layout simple so that the our participants aren't too focused on the outside shannanigans, but rather the fact that there is an online support system out there.
- Jess thanks for all those websites. However, as I discussed with paulette, perhaps also contact UHN's IT department to see what's already available HERE, at UHN. So I believe she did contact the IT department...perhaps she can provide any updates as to what happened after that? By contacting UHN IT, may they can support UHN nurses and help us set it up for free?
- There is also SIMS department at UHN, perhaps contact them too to make sure everything is covered and we know what's out there. Just in case you guys did not have the contact info (and perhaps they are available today too?)

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- One thing I can suggest is to talk to An, as she is covering the part "what kind of support systems are ALREADY in place", and together you guys can write up that aspect?

- In general, I was thinking while writing your summary, (co ordinating with An as you guys are writing similar parts?), start out broad, what's out there and who can we contact. Narrow down to what's at UHN, who can we contact (perhaps these two aspects An can cover), and then you guys write up what we will use in our research?..


Sam & Chao
--Good job !!--you found some really good articles. I think that, that could really support our theories.
-- I'm glad that articles were found supporting all organs and their trajectory...however Chao if we could either find articles that tell us that we should re assess coping in 1 month OR the more suitable option as Terri suggested, was to contact the co ordinators themselves and kind of get a time line for all the organs and about their improvement in well being, so we can base our evaluation timeline based on that. You can always give their names in your part when you are writing the reason for picking those timelines, as they are also valid sources. Then we can finally average out the evaluation timings for all organs.
- Sam --again, when writing your part of the proposal, you can write, coping can be problem focused, and emotional..as per our research.. we are assessing emotional (and then eventually integrate it with the rest of the research we are doing) :)


Tenzin
- Even if we don't find specific articles about online support and coping in TX PT's, then you can just state that in your part when writing it up. Again, remember to check back with Sam/An re: the definition of online support/coping and perhaps that would narrow down your research when finding articles.

An
- Continue down your research--you found some good resources out there!!
- co ordinate with the other members of the team that are doing research along your lines--save everyone extra time researching
- So again, when writing a proposal, make sure start broad and narrow it down & focus on our research. In individual remember to write co ordinators' names too (you can also email and ask further about the type of support provided NOT JUST at UHN but elsewhere as well--this info then you can relay to liz/jess/paulette when they are writing their part.

Mo & Terri
-- We were provided with some good insight about King's theory being the most applicable to our project--not just because it influences our nursing practice and the way we think, but also assists us with the methodology in how we want to plan our out research itself.
-- We were a bit torn between Roy's theory as it could see be directly applied to our research, but  Mo & Terri feel that they can back us up better with King. So then we had a delimma; to go with the theory that dr. Parse AND helen (the two judges) have been pushing us towards (Roy) and not be too comfortable backing it up, OR apply King (NOT suggested) and back it up BETTER. That's when an email was sent to Dr. Parse and Helen to provide us with further information re: what they think.
-- One thing that we discussed and should try to remember to ask the judges is --is it okay if we use both theories? I think this idea was discussed--perhaps we could be provided back with feedback as to what happened to that.
-- One more thing: not sure if you guys remember the email that I sent out some time ago, regarding what Helen sent me. It looked something like this:

Summary of Research Based Literature on

< topic description ie Patient Education>     
Authors         Purpose         Sample  Measurement     Findings       . Anderson (1998)

I was discussing this with Terri & I'd have to agree with her analysis on this. So basically the above thign describes/assists us in finding conclusions from the articles we have found (Not sure if it would be too helpful now as most of us are done the lit review). But basically at the top goes the topic you are researching, and then kind of make a column/table that goes like this:

Column 1-- Authors
Column 2-- Purpose (of the study)
Column 3-- Sample-- I think this needs to be looked at even now because it is an important one
Column 4-- Findings


Ps-- Paulette & I were discussing and I think for the purpose of our proposal/eventual study, we will stick with FRESH post op's (for all organs) only, as that will then not screw up our research on the "trajectory" aspect of our proposal, and later on when actually conducting the study if we don't have enough new tx's, then we can change it up and include all pt's.  (Too bad the study wasn't done now eh, the way tx's are going now a days?)

-- this is a reminder to myself too (along with everyone) to include demographics in our "sample" size and why we are only choosing discharge pt's only.


Okay I think that is all for now.... I am proud of how much we have accomplished so far and am greatful for the continued dedication--Honest!!

What's next?
- Read the example of proposal in our blue folder given to us--notice the way their statements are backed up, notice how not all literature applies to their topic but they made it apply, notice the format, structure

- please write up your part and send it to me Wednesday Night (DEADLINE!!) so that Thursday Morning I can wake up early and start putting it together. This includes (startng yesterday--more than half a day, this weekend, and I know most of us are on nights, but perhaps till wednesday night it would be okay ish time as I know for the most part, the research aspect is done.

- The way the timeline is in MY head (and you can have your schedule for tx out for this one, otherwise it'll get complicated)
----> I have stuff in by Wednesday Night, February 9th
----> I start putting stuff together Thursday, February 10th
----> Working the weekend, so allow myself a leeway and work on it Monday February 14th (maybe sunday night?)
----> Give it to Terri to edit, because she stated it might take her half a day, so she can have all of tuesday February 15th to edit it as it's a big proposal
----> After Terri, we give it to Colleen to edit (and as we all know she is insanely busy) so perhaps from wednesday to friday (feb 16-18), colleen can edit it
----> after friday, for the weekend, we can take suggestions by colleen and revamp our proposal (i want to get it to her before friday so not only does she have sufficient time to edit it but also she won't work on it on the weekend so if we have it before that weekend, we can utilize that time to actually work in it)
----> that still gives us 5 days (between our shifts) before march 2nd, and good leeway time because what I described above is strict and ideal schedule, and if things go one way or another, we need a bit of leeway time too.


PLEASE please I want us all to win this, not just for us our unit, but for our patients too. Please don'r rush it---rushed work makes for not so good work. so PLEASE, once again, I am asking you if you are not happy with the deadline, and feel rushed and would like to give your 100% to this, we could push your INITIAL deadline to hand stuff TO me by Satuday night (as no point handing it in before that I will be working anyway), and from THERE on we can start our series of (fortunate) events, but all the dates would be pushed back.


Let me know!!
I don't know if anyone is awake right now after reading all this, so I'm gonna go too.

Keep me posted, esp about the dates/deadlines ASAP, because then those need to be set and expected to follow.

Thanks :)

-Rida.