On August 20, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing officially opened the Nursing Best Practice Research Unit.
Located in Roger Guindon Hall, this new unit aims to promote greater collaboration among team members and to generate innovative ideas for improving health care.
“The structure of the unit facilitates more interaction among researchers, undergraduate and graduate students and research assistants” says Kirsten Woodend, director of the School of Nursing. “In the short time the unit has been open there has been an increase in dynamism in an already dynamic unit.”
The Nursing Best Practice Research Unit follows on the heels of an online community that was created in the spring of 2007. The online meeting space also promotes team work and includes an active network of more than 30 senior and associate members and five organizational members from various domains in the health care field. In 2007-2008, the unit funded 50 research projects and published 80 papers on topics such as leadership, end-of-life decision-making, diabetes and asthma care.
