Practice Development: Sydney South West AHS
The South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research (CANR) has established an extensive program of nursing research, education and postgraduate supervision. It works closely with clinical facilities across Sydney South West Area Health Service and the majority of projects are in collaboration with clinicians.
The CANR team is also active in the development and evaluation of evidence-based guidelines as well as the publication of systematic reviews. The CANR team is committed to providing leadership and support for clinicians to conduct and utilise research to improve clinical practice.
CANR is also home to the New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Health Care, which is the NSW Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute.
Research and quality projects
- Nursing Practice
- Community Health Primary Care
- Nursing Services Development
- Patient Safety
- Evidence Synthesis and Utilisation.
Current Projects
- Clinical development groups across SSWAHS, to develop clinical leaders, provide education and assist in skills acquisition in order to change the clinical culture and improve the quality of health care in SSWAHS.
- Shared care in nursing model of care, to evaluate the effect of a new nursing care model (called Shared Care in Nursing), with Concord Repatriation Hospital.
Completed Projects
- Asthma Management United - Effectiveness of an Asthma Educational Intervention Program (with Bankstown Health Service)
- Bankstown Models of Care - Evaluate the Effect of a New Nursing Care Model, called Nurses as Partners Model (with Bankstown Health Service)
- Evaluation and Implementation of Evidence Based Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease (with SSWAHS and National Health Foundation)
- Evaluation of a Pre-Natal Clinic for Women on the Methadone Program (with midwives, Liverpool Hospital)
- Evaluation of Clinical Practice Following Implementation of Guidelines for the Management of Post Partum Haemorrhage (with midwives, Liverpool Hospital)
This web page is managed and authorised by Nursing & Midwifery Office of the NSW Department of Health. Last updated: 31 March, 2009