Webinars and output

 

 

 

 

 

NEW CONNECT-CTSNet Video Series

CONNECT have worked with CTSNet to publish 6 videos entitled ‘CONNECTING Patients, Clinicians, and Outstanding Cardiac Care Through Nursing and Allied Professional Research’

The series can be found at https://www.ctsnet.org/article/guest-editor-series-connecting-patients-clinicians-and-outstanding-cardiac-care-through and include:

1.  “The Sex Factor”—Better Cardiac Surgery Care for Women by Stacey Matthews
2.  Postsurgical Pain After Cardiac Surgery—An Update on the Evidence By Kari Hanne Gjeilo
3. SSI in Focus: Assessment, Prevention, and Management by Rosalie Magboo
4. Reporting Outcomes: What, When, and Why Patients’ Perspectives Matter by Rochelle Wynne
5.  Cardiac Surgery Healthcare Professionals’ Engagement in Research at the Bedside: Challenges and Opportunities by Suzanne Fredericks
6.  CONNECTing Evidence and Practice of the Future: The Who, Why, and What of the Cardiac Surgery International Nursing and Allied Professional Research Network (CONNECT) by Julie Sanders 

These videos feature the best evidence and research needs across the topics, strategies to support nursing and allied professional research in practice, and the work of CONNECT.

CONNECT Inaugural Webinar

On the 10^th November 2021 CONNECT hosted its inaugural webinar. Cardiovascular surgery nursing and allied professional research colleagues joined from Australia, Canada, Norway, USA and UK joined to learn about the co-founders, the work of CONNECT so far, to discuss future plans and projects and to network with each other.

Three new CONNECT initiatives were discussed which will start in 2022 – more details will follow in relation to these projects as they progress.

• Download CONNECT Webinar Flyer [PDF 1,273KB]
• Watch a video of the CONNECT Inaugural Webinar

 

CONNECT Webinar 2: Annual Meeting October 2022

On the 27^th October 2022 CONNECT hosted its second webinar in the form of an annual meeting. New CONNECT members were welcomed and an update on all programmes of work over the last 12 months was provided. Several new initiatives for 2023 were also highlighted. The 2023 annual meeting is proposed for 26^th October.

CONNECT Outputs

Papers

• Martorella G, Fredericks S, Sanders J, Wynne R (2021). Breaking pandemic chain reactions: telehealth psychosocial support in cardiovascular disease during COVID-19. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 20. 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvaa011
• Sanders J, Wynne R, Martorella G, Fredericks F (2020). An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: An introduction. British Journal Cardiac Nursing. January 2^nd. 15 (2). https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0009
• Fredericks S, Martorella G, Wynne R, Sanders J (2020). An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: Advanced practice. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. April 20^th. 15 (4). https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0010
• Sanders J, Wynne R, Martorella G, Fredericks F (2020). An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: Clinical academic careers. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. June 8^th. 15 (6). https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0033
• Fredericks S, Wynne R, Martorella G, Sanders J (2020): An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: Student perspectives. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. 5 (8): https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0045
• Sanders J, Wynne R, Martorella G, Fredericks F (2020). An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: Patient experience. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. 5 (10): https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0090
• Fredericks S, Wynne R, Martorella G, Onyeozirila M, Willis S, Kwaku F, Moon S, Sanders J (2020). An international focus on cardiac surgery nursing: International visiting teams.British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. 15 (12).  DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2020.0131

Conference sessions

Presentations

• CCCN-CONNECT joint session: CONNECT with Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Health Professionals for International Collaboration in Research. Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses Spring Conference 2023 (workshop)
• Sanders J, Fredericks S, Martorella G, Wynne R on behalf of CONNECT. CONNECTing globally: Driving evidence for better patient outcomes and experience. EACTS 2022 (oral presentation).
• Sanders J, Fredericks S, Martorella G, Wynne R. The Cardiac surgery internatiONal Nursing and alliEd professional researCh network: CONNECT. SCTS 2022 (oral presentation)
• Sanders J, Fredericks S, Martorella G, Wynne R. Delivering the evidence for best practice: The launch of the Cardiac surgery internatiONal Nursing and alliEd professional researCh network (CONNECT). EuroHeartCare 2021 (oral presentation).

Joint sessions

• The ACNAP-CONNECT joint session on cardiac surgery: Underreported outcomes after cardiac surgery. EuroHeartCare 2022
• The ACNAP-CONNECT joint session on cardiac surgery: Hot topics in cardiac surgery. EuroHeartCare 2021