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It’s all about Journal Club!Rachel Hart

Staff Nurse, Transplant Unit, UHW

+PGCE

+Subject area

+Develop an opinion on…

+Drift off…

+How can I use what I am

learning in Nephrology and Transplant?

+Amazing what you can think of when waiting hours for your flight!

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+So what is this evening all

about?

+  Defined as …

A journal club has been defined as an educational meeting in which a group of individuals discuss current articles, providing a forum for a collective effort to keep up with the literature.

+Main idea of the Journal Club…

For nurses in Transplant and Nephrology across South Wales to get together to chat, have coffee and discuss /debate articles research / issues around Transplant and Nephrology;

Not just for Staff Nurse but Health Care Support Workers as well;

Students are also welcome;

Members of the medical and surgical team are also welcome!

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+Advantages of the Renal Journal

Club

There are many advantages of participating in a journal club, and for the Renal Journal Club we hope to:

Keeping abreast of new knowledge; Promoting awareness of current nursing research findings;

learning to critique and appraise research; Becoming familiar with the best current clinical research; Encouraging research utilisation.  

+Getting started…

+1. Set up a communication network

For this I have created and email address: rachel.renal.journal.club@gmail.com

Also have a website: www.renaljournalclub.co.uk

Along with all other forms…

  

+2. Set up a convenient meeting time and location.

The new Health Library at University Hospital of Wales

IT facilities

Coffee and Tea

Lounge area

Quite study rooms

Books

Date and time to be decided

+3. General structure…

Meet once a month;

Session will last approx 2 hours;

Start with a 45 minute presentation from a guest speaker;

Have a coffee break;

Break off into groups ( by yourself) and discuss the presentation / topic / research articles;

Meet back as a group and all able to discuss findings.

Reflect on the outcome of the Journal Club Meeting!

+To Help with this…

Inspiration from SiFi

+Again waiting for my flight

+iPads

+4. Educational Design

+Ausubel  

Ausubel known for the advance organizer.

This is a tool to help students integrate new information with their existing knowledge, leading to meaningful learning.

Ausubel believed that it was important to provide a preview of information to be learned by providing information on the topic areas and enabling a bigger picture to start.

+Translated...

This means for Journal Club members:

Topic of each Journal Club Meeting in advance; Via the website and email; Communication network with myself and other members; Session design available before hand so you know what to

expect and can be prepared; Do as much or as little preparation as you like.

+Q: How can we measuring gain from the Journal Club?

A: Reflection

Reflection ~ turning experience into learning.

Using a tool such as a reflection for this Journal Club can enabling members to learn from their experience of working in renal and the issues presented with.

Reflection as a means of learning is not new.

Kolb’s experiential learning theory argued that learners go through a four stage cycle which begins with a concrete experience which is reflected upon and from which abstract concepts are developed which can then be tested.

+Honey and Mumford's Model

Based on Kolb’s experiential model.

The Honey & Mumford stages are: Having an experience Reviewing the experience Concluding from the experience Planning the next steps.

+Reflect on the sessions

+Also used for…

As well as: CPD; KSF; Work Appraisals.

PREP: New NMC Guidelines; Framework to reflect.

+Topics so far…

Month Topic Guest Speaker

April Organ Donation: The opt Out Policy

Pat Vernon and team

May Transplant: Triple Therapy Immuno-suppression

Kirpal Gandhi

June Pain Management in Renal Patients

Catherine Hart and Pain Team

July Diet Management for the Potential Transplant Patient

Sally Altree

+Future Topics…

Use of fluids in Haemodialysis

CVP Reading in post-op transplant patients.

Central Lines and nurse management.

Sepsis!

Wound care and the renal/transplant patient.

Communication and renal patients.

Pre op transplant care.

+ NOTE...

1- Your ideas are welcome!

2 - Can change topic if something urgent or relevant develops!

+5. Evaluate the Journal Club…

At the end of the session, gather feedback from members;

Determine how the Journal Club meeting could be made more beneficial;

This will be an ongoing process!

+Where can this GO…

+Publication

+Impact …

Unconscious incompetence;

Staff moral;

Help with CDP, PREP, KSF;

Motivation;

Driver for change;

Improve patient care;

Improve services;

+As well as…

Promote Transplant and Nephrology Nurses;

Recognises the role of Renal Nurses;

Inspire Renal Nurses;

Promote education and encourage study;

Look at improving and changing practice;

Nurse’s involved in starting their own research projects;

Working with the local Universities to validate some of the work we do;

+And there is more still..

Improving relationship with colleagues in the work place;

New friendships;

Networking;

Support network, talk to colleagues going through the same things;

Chance to develop communication skills in a safe environment.

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+Aztec Design: Drop in the Lake