First Baltic Nursing Conference
Print versionAssociate Dean gives Keynote Speech
Professor Ian Norman gave a keynote paper at the Baltic Contribution to Nursing Research Conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania in January 2009.
Organised by Klaipeda University with participation by the Universities of Vilnius and Kaunas University of Medicine, the conference was the first ever conference in the Baltic region to bring together nurse researchers and clinical researchers, primarily from countries in the former Soviet Block.
Professor Norman presented an analysis of developments in pre-registration nurse education in the UK over the past 30 years and commented on the relevance of these developments to countries in Europe and beyond where nursing is fast emerging as a practice discipline with an academic knowledge base.
The Baltic nursing conference was followed by the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), which was attended by 70 leading nurse researchers from across the Europe. At the conference Ian presented a paper on behalf of Dr Angus Forbes drawn from Angus' recent methodological review of clinical intervention research studies in nursing, published on-line in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (1). In this paper Angus presents criteria for defining clinical interventions and a framework for developing integrated approaches to clinical research. The paper also reports the results of an analysis of research studies published in three leading nursing journals against the proposed framework.
1. Forbes A (In Press) Clinical intervention research in nursing: a discussion paper. International Journal of Nursing Studies (doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.08.012)
Organised by Klaipeda University with participation by the Universities of Vilnius and Kaunas University of Medicine, the conference was the first ever conference in the Baltic region to bring together nurse researchers and clinical researchers, primarily from countries in the former Soviet Block.
Professor Norman presented an analysis of developments in pre-registration nurse education in the UK over the past 30 years and commented on the relevance of these developments to countries in Europe and beyond where nursing is fast emerging as a practice discipline with an academic knowledge base.
The Baltic nursing conference was followed by the 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), which was attended by 70 leading nurse researchers from across the Europe. At the conference Ian presented a paper on behalf of Dr Angus Forbes drawn from Angus' recent methodological review of clinical intervention research studies in nursing, published on-line in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (1). In this paper Angus presents criteria for defining clinical interventions and a framework for developing integrated approaches to clinical research. The paper also reports the results of an analysis of research studies published in three leading nursing journals against the proposed framework.
1. Forbes A (In Press) Clinical intervention research in nursing: a discussion paper. International Journal of Nursing Studies (doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.08.012)