Innovative Knowledge Translation Strategies to Narrow the Research to Practice Gap in Infant Pain | Colloquium by Prof. Bonnie Stevens June 4

The BC Pain Research Network and the UBC School of Nursing are delighted to co-host Prof. Bonnie Stevens, Director of the Centre for the Study of Pain at the University of Toronto to give a colloquium titled: Innovative Knowledge Translation Strategies to Narrow the Research to Practice Gap in Infant Pain, June 4 at 12:30 pm in Centre for Brain Health, Rudy North Lecture Theatre (LL 101). The colloquium will be followed by a discussion session and reception at 2:30 pm at the VIP room in the University Centre, 6331 Crescent Road, Room 307, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2. Prof. Stevens will share her experience of forming a pain research network in Toronto. The reception is open to all BC Pain Research Network members, trainees, and guests. To allow us to provide adequate food and beverage at the afternoon reception, or to participate remotely please RSVP to Stacey Herzer; stacey.herzer@ubc.ca.

Innovative Knowledge Translation Strategies to Narrow the Research to Practice Gap in Infant Pain

Hospitalized infants continue to undergo up to a dozen painful procedures daily for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Despite incredible growth in research aimed at reducing procedural pain, evidence-based pain prevention strategies are frequently not implemented in practice.

To address this problem, we have developed the Implementation of Infant Pain Practice Change (ImPaC) Resource, an evidence-based, online and interactive tool, designed to guide teams of health professionals through a practice change process to improve infant pain assessment and management practice to decrease pain and its immediate and long-term consequences in infants.

The development, usability testing and launch of the ImPaC Resource implementation strategy using a hybrid mixed methods design and cluster randomized clinical trial will be discussed.

Biography: Bonnie Stevens is a Professor in the Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Toronto. She is also the Associate Chief of Nursing and a Senior Scientist in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is the Director of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain and Co-Director of the Hospital for Sick Children Pain Centre. She has a substantial history of funded research and publications focusing on pain assessment and treatment of procedural pain in infants. Her most recent work centres on implementation science and novel solutions to the problem of implementing and disseminating research evidence to practice.