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International
and interdisciplinary
intensive care research summer school
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Who is
behind the summer school? |
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Early
Career Group |
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Dr
Susanne Kean, PhD, MSc, Dip in Nursing Management & Education,
RN |
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Susanne Kean is a nurse and a researcher
at the University of Edinburgh, Nursing Studies and the PI for
this project. She qualified as a nurse in 1983 in Marburg (Germany).
After qualifying she worked in surgical (septic) wards at the
University Hospital Zürich (Switzerland) and the University
Hospital Kiel (Germany) before moving into intensive care nursing.
In 1991 she qualified with a Diploma in Nursing Management &
Education and held positions in both areas. In 1998 she graduated
with an MSc in Nursing and Health Studies (with Distinction)
from the University of Edinburgh and worked as a research assistant
before commencing her PhD. Her PhD thesis, ‘The emergence
of negotiated family care in intensive care’ at the University
of Edinburgh, investigates the experiences of families with
children and young people during an acute critical illness of
an adult family member that required intensive care and the
nurses’ perceptions of families in the intensive care
unit.
Susanne held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Feb 2008 –
Jan 2009), which was mentored by Prof Kathryn Backett-Milburn
and Dr Guro Huby. She is a European Academy of Nursing Science
(EANS) scholar and the elected Scholars’ representative
on the EANS educational committee.
Her research interests relate to families’ – including
children and young people - and patients’ experiences
of an critical illness event, the recovery from critical illness
from a patient’s and a family’s perspective, nurses’
perception of families in intensive care, sociology of families,
sociology of childhood and qualitative research methods. Susanne
has also an interest in leadership issues in health care.
Recent publications:
Kean S (in press) ‘The experiences of ambiguous loss in
families of brain injured ICU patients’, Nursing in Critical
Care
Kean S (in press) ‘He’s got so many tubes and stuff
going out of him’: Children and Young People visiting
an adult ICU, Journal of Advanced Nursing
Kean S (2010) Children and Young People’s strategies to
access information during a family members’ critical illness,
Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol 19 (1-2): 266 – 274,
online 20.July 2009, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02837.x.
Critical Care (2007) 11:492 (Supplement II) |
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Claire
Kydonaki, PhD Student, MSc, RN |
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Claire Kydonaki is a final year PhD student
at the University of Edinburgh and a critical care nurse working
in ICU at the Western General Hospital of Edinburgh. She has
working experience both in Greece and Scotland. Claire was employed
at the Western General Hospital in 2005 after receiving her
UK nursing registration and has been working in ICU since then.
Claire finished her first degree in Nursing in 2002 and graduated
from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She
worked as a registered nurse in ICU and in a cardiothoracic
ward in a private hospital in Athens, Greece until 2003. Then
she came to Scotland to undertake her MSc in Nursing at Napier
University of Edinburgh, and was awarded
a distinction for her dissertation. Her dissertation looked
at ‘Barriers and Facilitators of using evidence-based
practice in ICU’.
Claire started her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2006.
The focus of her PhD study is nurses’ input in clinical
decision-making during the weaning from mechanical ventilation
of long-term ventilated patients. It is a comparative ethnographic
study between Scotland and Greece with many interesting clinical
and cultural aspects of decision-making that have an impact
on patient care.
As a member of the ICU group, Claire is also involved in a Knowledge
Transfer project, which looks at raising the awareness of ICU
survivors and rehabilitation after discharge in relation to
policy-making. Areas of interest are mechanical ventilation
and weaning and impact on prolonged rehabilitation, decision-making
and the impact of ICU culture, empowering nurses through education.
Recent conference presentations:
Kydonaki C (2009): Weaning the difficult to wean patient: Criteria
that nurses perceive important when assessing the patient’
(Poster), 22nd ESICM conference, Vienna, Austria
Kydonaki C (2009): ‘Observing the weaning of long-term
ventilated patients: the approach to weaning in a general ICU’,
10th WFSICCM, 63rd SIAARTI Congresso, 6th WFCCN Congress, Florence,
Italy
Kydonaki C (2008) ‘Nurses’ clinical decision-making
in weaning: how to access nurses’ mind?’, RCN International
Research Conference, Liverpool, UK
Kydonaki C (2008) ‘Nurses’ decision-making in weaning
from mechanical ventilation: results from a pilot study’,
3rd EfCCNa Congress & 27th Aniarti Congress, Florence, Italy
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Frances
Lin RN, BM, MN (Hons), PhD Candidate, Lecturer, School of Nursing
and Midwifery (Gold Coast), Griffith University, Australia |
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Frances Lin has been working
in the critical care nursing field for many years. She is currently
working at Griffith University as the Program Convenor for Master
of Advanced Practice – Critical Care Nursing & Emergency
Nursing programs. Her research interest is in critical care
patient safety and work processes using both quantitative and
qualitative methods. She is currently completing her PhD study.
Her PhD topic is “exploring the ICU patient discharge
process”. Team work, communication, ICU to ward handover,
and documentation were the main focus for her PhD study. Frances
is an active contributing member of Australian College of Critical
Care Nurses (ACCCN), serving as committee member of ACCCN Queensland
branch, and on the ACCCN’s national Quality and Safety
Panel.
Recent publications and conference presentation:
Lin, F., Chaboyer, W., & Wallis, M. (2009). A Literature
Review of organisational, individual and teamwork factors contributing
to the ICU discharge process. Australian Critical Care, 22,
29-43.
Lin, F., StJohn, W., & McVeigh, C. (2009). Burnout among
hospital nurses in China. Journal of Nursing Management, 17(3):
(Speical edition on job satisfaction, work environment and burnout),
294-301.
Lin, F., Chaboyer, W., & Wallis, M. (2008). Exploring the
ICU patient discharge process-from discharge decision making
to clinical handover. Paper presented at the Asia Pacific Critical
Care Congress (Sydney).
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Judith
Merriweather, MSc, BSc (Hons), SRD |
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Judith Merriweather is a dietician
working in critical care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
She has completed her MSc by Research at the University of Edinburgh
and has just been awarded a Doctoral Fellowship from the Chief
Scientist Office. Her PhD, at the University of Edinburgh, will
draw on contemporary theory of the body and focus on the development
of a patient-centred strategy to promote nutritional recovery
following critical illness.
Recent publications:
Salisbury LG, Merriweather JL, Walsh T. (in press) Development
and feasibility of enhanced ward-based physical and nutritional
rehabilitation following prolonged intensive care stay delivered
by a generic health care assistant, Clinical Rehabilitation
Salisbury LG, Merriweather JL, Walsh T. (in press) Rehabilitation
after critical illness: Could a ward-based generic assistant
promote recovery, Nursing in Critical Care |
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Pam
Ramsay, MSc, BSc, RGN |
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Pam Ramsay is Research Manager in Critical
Care at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Her background is
in critical care nursing, and she has been involved in critical
care research since 2000. She is currently completing a mixed
methods PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the use of generic
“quality of life” measures among survivors of prolonged
critical illness. Her interests include patient-centred outcome
measures, “the patient experience” in relation to
ward-based care and rehabilitation, and patients’ self
management strategies following discharge home.
Recent publications:
Ramsay P, Huby G, Thompson A, Walsh TS. Quality of life among
survivors of prolonged critical illness; a mixed methods study.
Critical Care (2008) 12: 508 (Supplement II)
Walsh TS, Ramsay P, Lapinlampi TP, Särkelä MOP,
Viertiö-Oja HE,
Meriläinen PT. An assessment of the validity of spectral
entropy as a measure of sedation state in mechanically ventilated
critically ill patients. Intensive Care Medicine (2008) 34:
308-315
Ramsay P, Huby G, Thompson A, Walsh TS. ?Quality of life?
Following prolonged critical illness; insights from a qualitative
approach |
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Senior Researcher
Steering Group |
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Professor
Leanne Aitken |
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Leanne Aitken is the Chair
in Critical Care Nursing at Griffith University and Princess
Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. This role incorporates
conduct and implementation of a range of clinical research,
as well as postgraduate teaching and supervision. Mentoring
clinical staff through the conduct and implementation of research
is also an important component of the role. Leanne’s research
focuses on trauma, decision making practices of critical care
nurses and a range of clinical practice issues including sedation
management and long term recovery within critical care.
Leanne is an Associate Editor of Australian Critical Care and
a co-editor of ACCCN’s Critical Care Nursing text. Leanne
also peer reviews for multiple international journals as well
as for the National Health and Medical Research Council, Queensland
Health and the Queensland Nursing Council and is a member of
the Queensland Health Clinical Senate. |
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Professor
Kathryn Backett-Milburn |
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Kathryn Backett-Milburn is Professor of
the Sociology of Families and Health and Associated Director
of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR),
University of Edinburgh. She has a cross College appointment
between the School of Health in Social Science and Public Health
Sciences. Kathryn is a qualitative research specialist currently
involved in research into children, families and work life balance
using qualitative longitudinal research methods; social class
and the adolescent diet; and examining demographic issues
in Scotland. She joined the ICU research group after mentoring
Susanne Kean on her post Doctoral fellowship and is involved
with research grant applications following on from that work.
Selected recent publications:
Rankin, D., Backett-Milburn, K, & Platt, S. (2009) Practitioner
perspectives on tackling health inequalities: Findings from
an evaluation of healthy living centres in Scotland. Social
Science & Medicine 68 925–932.
Wills, W., Backett-Milburn, K., Gregory, S. & Lawton, J.
(2008) ‘If the food looks dodgy I dinnae eat it’:
Teenagers’ accounts of food and eating practices in socio-economically
disadvantaged families. Sociological Research Online. 13(1).
Backett-Milburn, K., Wilson, S., Bancroft, A., & Cunningham-Burley,
S. (2008) Challenging childhoods: Young people’s accounts
of ‘getting by’ in families with substance use problems.
Childhood 15(4):461-479.
Backett-Milburn,K; Airey, L; McKie, L; Hogg,G. (2008) Family
comes first
or open all hours?: How low paid women working in food retailing
manage webs of obligation at home and work. The Sociological
Review, 56 (3) 474-496 |
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Professor
Wendy Chaboyer |
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Professor Wendy Chaboyer is the foundation
Director of the Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice
Innovation and an Adjunct Professor at the Patient Safety Centre,
Queensland Health. She has been very active in the Australian
College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), having sat on the National
and State Boards of Directors for several terms. She has been
the Chair of their Research Advisory Panel and is currently
the Chair of the Quality Advisory Panel. She also sits on the
Quality and Safety Committee of the Australian and New Zealand
Intensive Care Society. Her research interests focus on acute
and critical care nursing practices, with work on ICU discharge
practices, clinical handover and continuity of care for ICU
patients.
Selected recent publications:
Chaboyer, W., McMurray, A., Johnson, J., Hardy, L., Wallis,
M. & Chu, S. (2009). Bedside Handover; One Quality Improvement
Strategy to “Transform Care at the Bedside”. Journal
of Nursing Care Quality, 24 (2), 136-142.
Endacott, R., Eliot, S., & Chaboyer, W. (2009). An Integrative
Review and Meta-Synthesis of The scope and impact of intensive
care liaison and outreach services. Journal of Clinical Nursing,
18, 3225–3236
Chaboyer, W. , Thalib, L., Foster, M., Ball, C. & Richards,
B. (2008) Predictors of Adverse Events in Patients after Discharge
from ICU, American Journal of Critical Care, 17(3), 255-263.
Lee, B.-O, Chaboyer, W. & Wallis, M. (2008). Predictors
of health-related quality of life 3 months after traumatic injury,
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 40(1), 83-90.
Wallen, K., Chaboyer, W., Thalib, L. & Creedy, D. (2008).
Acute post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after intensive
care. American, Journal of Critical Care, 17, 534-544. |
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Dr
Guro Huby, PhD |
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Guro Huby is CIHR (Centre for Integrated
Health Care Research) Reader in the School of Health in Social
Science at the University of Edinburgh. CIHR is one of three
University and NHS collaborations across Scotland which aim
to enhance research capacity among nurses, midwives and allied
health professionals. Guro leads the CIHR “Maximising
Recovery from Acute Illness and Trauma” Programme. She
has a background in social anthropology, and her main area of
research is the organisation of care, quality improvement and
workforce change, with a focus on integration of services. She
has a particular interest in practice based research and development.
She directs the MSC Programme Integrated Service Improvement,
Health and Social Care, which supports managers of health and
social care to apply theory and research skills to service improvement.
Selected recent publications:
Law J, Huby G, Irving AM, Pringle AM, Smith M, Conochie D, Haworth
C, Burston A 2009 Reconciling the Perspective of Practitioner
and Service User: Findings from the Aphasia in Scotland Study
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.early
on-line 17th December 2009
Huby G, Guthrie B, Grant S, Watkins F, Checkland K, McDonald
R, Davies H 2008 ‘Whither British general Practice after
the 2004 GMS Contract? Stories and realities of change in four
UK General Practices. Journal of Health Organization and Management
22, 63-78
Bell K, Kinder T, Huby G 2008 ‘What Comes Around Goes
Around: On the Language and practice of “Integration”
in Health and Social Care in Scotland Journal of integrated
Care 16:
40 - 48
Huby G, Hart E, McKevitt C, Sobo E. 2007 Addressing the Complexity
of Health Care: the practical potential of ethnography Journal
of Health Services Research and Policy; 12:
193 – 194 |
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Dr
Marion Mitchell, PhD, RN, BN (Hon), Grad Cert (Higher Ed). |
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Dr Marion Mitchell was appointed as a Senior
Research Fellow with Griffith University and Princess Alexandra
Hospital in Brisbane, Australia in January, 2009. Prior to this
appointment, Marion was the Deputy Head of School of Nursing
and Midwifery, Griffith University (Logan Campus). Marion is
a member of the Research Centre for Clinical Practice Innovation
at Griffith University. She was recently re-appointed National
Vice-President of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses
and the educationalist on the Queensland Nursing Council Education
Committee. Marion is on the editorial board for Australian Critical
Care and reviews for five other journals. Marion has over 14
years of clinical experience in general ICUs and her research
areas include the psychosocial care of the critically ill, delirium
in ICU, family-centred care and nursing education.
Selected recent publications:
Mitchell, M., Chaboyer, W., Burmeister, L. & Foster, M.
(2009). The positive effects of a nursing intervention on Family-Centered-Care
in adult critical care. American Journal of Critical Care,
18, (6), 543-552.
Fan, M-I., Mitchell, M. & Cooke, M. (2009). Patients’
management of Glycerine Trinitrate. Australian Journal of Advanced
Nursing, 26, (3), 32-38.
Link to: Research Centre for Clinical Community and Practice
Innovation, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
http://www.griffith.edu.au/health/research-centre-clinical-community-practice-innovation |
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Dr
Janice Rattray, PhD, MN, Dip.N, RGN, SCM |
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Janice Rattray is a Senior Lecturer in the
School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Dundee
in Scotland (UK). The focus of her clinical and academic career
has been acute and critical care nursing. Her main research
interest is in recovery from critical illness. In particular
she is interested in the patient’s experience of critical
illness, subsequent emotional outcome and quality of life. She
has been involved in a number of funded studies assessing outcome
from intensive care, and the effectiveness of a post-ICU rehabilitation
programme. Work with the critical care research group includes
the ESRC funded summer school for early career critical care
researchers, the RECOVER study looking at in-hospital rehabilitation,
and grant applications exploring the impact of ICU on families
of ICU patients and the RELINQUISH study exploring patient needs
after discharge.
Selected recent publications:
Rattray J, Crocker C, Jones M, Connaghan, J. 2010 Patients’
perceptions of and emotional outcome after intensive care: a
multi-centre study. Nursing in Critical Care (in press).
Cuthbertson B., Rattray J. Campbell MK., Gager M., Roughton
S., Smith, A., Hull A., Breeman S., Norrie J., Jenkinson D.,
Hernandez R., Johnston M., Wilson E., Waldmann C. 2009: A Randomised
Controlled Trial evaluating the effectiveness of a nurse-led
intensive care follow-up review service. BMJ doi: 10.1136/bmj.63723
(Published 16 October 2009).
Rattray J, & Hull A. 2008 Emotional Outcome after Intensive
Care: literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 64(1) 2-13.
Paul F. & Rattray J. 2008 Relatives of intensive care patients
– a review of the literature. Journal of Advanced Nursing
62(3) 276-292. |
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Lisa
Salisbury |
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Lisa Salisbury is physiotherapist and currently
works as a post-doctoral research fellow within the Centre for
Integrated Healthcare Research (CIHR) based at Edinburgh University.
Her research interests include rehabilitation and the evaluation
of physiotherapy interventions. At present the main focus of
work is around the evaluation of rehabilitation following a
prolonged critical illness. She is a co-applicant on the RECOVER
study, an evaluation of enhanced rehabilitation after critical
illness, that will commence in May 2010. In addition, she is
involved in stroke rehabilitation research including the evaluation
of treadmill training, functional electrical stimulation and
patient experience.
Selected recent publications:
Salisbury L, Merriweather J & Walsh T (2010) The development
and feasibility of a ward-based physiotherapy and nutritional
rehabilitation package for people experiencing critical
illness. Clinical Rehabilitation (in press)
Salisbury L, Merriweather J & Walsh T (2010) Rehabilitation
after critical illness: Could a
ward-based generic rehabilitation assistant promote recovery?
Nursing in Critical Care (in press) |
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Professor Timothy Simon
Walsh, BSc(Hons) MBChB(Hons) FRCP FRCA MD MRes |
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Tim Walsh is consultant and Honorary Professor
in Critical Care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland.
He undertook his MD studies in the Scottish Liver Transplant
Unit, studying oxygen transport during liver transplantation
and in acute liver failure. He was appointed consultant in transplantation
anaesthesia and intensive care at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
in 1999. He leads a multidisciplinary clinical research group
with interests including weaning from mechanical ventilation,
sedation monitoring in the critically ill, recovery from critical
illness and the epidemiology and prevention of ICU acquired
infection. His particular interest is transfusion medicine in
the critically ill, including the epidemiology of anaemia and
coagulation disturbances, and how to use blood products effectively.
He founded and chairs the Scottish Critical Care Trials Group,
which has a portfolio of multicentre studies in intensive care.
He is also Chairman of the UK CRN specialty group for Critical
Care. |
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