Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

We are requesting funding for the 3rd Annual Conference hosted by the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University. The conference will take place on site at York University on May 10th 2010. The one day conference will be co-chaired by Christine Maheu and Elsabeth Jensen both assistant professor at the School of Nursing, York University and both members of the research committee of this same School. The purpose of the conference is to foster the translation of research evidence and clinical expertise into nursing practice. We plan to bring together nursing faculty members from York University and surrounding universities, our nursing college partners, our community partners both hospitals and community agencies, nursing students, nurse clinicians, relevant stakeholders and policy makers to exchange and engage on the latest best practice evidence that can be influential to delivery of person-centered care. The conference will include keynote speakers and breakout sessions for nurse researchers and for practitioners to share the latest findings and to discuss future issues in the improvement of patient care. The potential to exchange in meaningful dialogue will foster the acquisition of new knowledge on how to improve health care quality but also to elaborate new area of inquiry in need of evidence and future clinical research collaboration.