Education
A PART OF ORPCS DISCOVERY NEWSLETTER
Stanford Health Care Hosts Healthcare Con 2023
After three years of virtual conferences, Stanford Health Care proudly hosted Healthcare Con on June 12, 2023 and June 13, 2023 at the Stanford University campus. Healthcare Con is an annual interprofessional conference that invites health care professionals to learn and showcase evidence-based healthcare improvement projects and the latest in research and innovation. This year’s Healthcare Con centered on the theme: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild: Systems of Healthcare. The two-day conference included keynote presentations, rapid-fire poster sessions, and concurrent sessions in breakout rooms that allowed attendees to freely explore topics of interest. Sessions topics included: Reflecting on COVID-19: Past, Present, and Future, Strategies for Collaboration, Innovations in Education, Inclusivity, and Promoting Mental Well-Being.
ORPCS’s Health Equity team presenting during the poster session. (L to R Dr. Alice Yan, Carol Yoon, Dr. Richard Oyekan, Dr. Shirveen Riazati, and Du Nguyen)
Hillary Duncan and Lisa Morse of ORPCS present their poster on Implementation of a Rapid Review Service to Support Nurse Leader Decision Making
Dr. Cassendra Munro delivers presentation on Simulation Modeling of a Risk Assessment scale
SHC Office of Research Patient Care Services celebrates the inaugural SJSU Nursing student interns!
The Office of Research Patient Care Services (ORPCS) thanked the inaugural group of San Jose State University nursing student interns with a celebratory lunch at the end of the Spring 2023 semester. ORPCS began a mentorship program partnering with San Jose State University nursing student interns. The program aims to expose prelicensure nursing students to research in an academic medical center to better understand the source of evidence-based practice knowledge and career possibilities in research. ORPCS looks forward to this continued partnership where nurse leaders can share their knowledge with this promising group of future RNs.
Written by: Regine Lopez, MPH
(From L to R back row) Briana Williams, Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton, and Lisa Morse
(Center row) Dr. Chrystal Lewis, Regine Lopez, Dr. Zaina Alzawad) and Liz Macaskill
(Front row) Dr. Cassendra Munro, Katelyn Tran, Shradha Singh, and Samantha Le at Stanford Research Institute
The Research and Innovation Council (RIC) Applies Research Evidence to the Creation of Shared Leadership Bylaws
Quyen Ly and Olivia Tang serve as co-chairs of the Research and Innovation Council (RIC), a critical arm of Shared Leadership at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton currently serves as an advisor to the council on behalf of the Office of Research. Since January 2023, the trio has worked collaboratively to integrate research education and application into the flow of the council’s monthly meetings. “The Research Spotlight” focuses on “hot off the presses” research on Nurse-Sensitive Indicators such as central line associated blood stream infections and falls; and most recently, the group examined research related to shared governance in nursing. At the May in-person meeting at the Holiday Inn in San Jose, the group appraised a 2021 study by Speroni et al. on the effect “of shared governance on nurse-sensitive indicator and satisfaction outcomes.” The investigators found that, compared to traditional governance, hospitals with shared governance had no difference in performance on nurse-sensitive indicators, but greater nurse satisfaction with regard to autonomy, access to leadership, quality of nursing care, and professional development opportunities. After a small group discussion about shared leadership at Stanford Health Care and appraisal of the study’s findings, Quyen and Olivia led the group in applying them to development of the council’s bylaws. The council co-chairs’ collaborative partnership with the Office of Research advisor is one of many ways that the department facilitates application of research by Stanford nurses.
Written by: Michelle DeCoux Hampton, RN, PhD, MS
Quyen Ly and Olivia Tang, Research and Innovation Council Co-Chairs
Health Equity Seed Grant
Stanford Health Care’s Office of Research Patient Care Services recently sponsored a grant for the 2023 Global Health Seed. The program, titled, Health Currency: The Impact of Cash Transfers for a Housing-Insecure Population, seeks to understand how to alleviate the homelessness crisis in California while simultaneously improving the well-being of individuals.
Adobe services, a nonprofit whose mission is to end homelessness, will partner with the program to recruit 1,100 randomly enrolled formerly homeless San Francisco individuals for the study. Together, they will look at how cash transfers affect health outcomes, including physical and mental health, substance abuse, and other outcomes. The primary goal is to identify how direct cash assistance can be used as an intervention to fight homelessness.