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Affiliate Investigator, Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, School of Nursing and Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University
Senior Scientist, Practice and Research in Nursing Group, School of Nursing, Queen's University
Director, Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration, School of Nursing, Queen's University
Biographical Sketch
Margaret B. Harrison, RN, PhD is a Professor in the Queen's University School of Nursing and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.
Research
Dr. Harrison is Affiliate Scientist with the Knowledge Translation group (headed by Dr. J. Grimshaw) at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. At Queen's University, she is Senior Scientist with the Practice & Research in Nursing (PRN) group and Director of the Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration, the first Canadian centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Dr. Harrison's major research themes include 1) continuity for complex health populations requiring ongoing care in more than one health sector, and 2) implementation of evidence-based nursing care. The two themes are intertwined, with delivery of evidence-based care through tools such as practice guidelines being one intervention to enhance continuity. Dr. Harrison has served on major provincial and national initiatives, such as the Canadian Cancer Strategy Control, Canadian Stroke Network, province-wide nursing outcomes project, RNAO 'Best Practices' initiative. Internationally, she is a founding member of the Nursing International Collaboration for Evidence-based Implementation and Research of Guidelines (NICEBIRG) and the ADAPTE Group. Current funding includes grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Stroke Network.
Selected Honours and Awards
2005 Basmajian Research Award, Queen's University
2003 - 2008 Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator
1998 - 2003 Ontario Ministry of Health, Research Personnel Development Career Scientist Award
Selected Affiliations
2000 - present Member, The Florence Nightingale Society
1988 - present Member, Canadian Nursing Research Group
1998 - present Member, Canadian Nurses Foundation
1986 - present Member, Nursing Research Interest Group (RNAO)
1980 - present Member, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
1980 - present Member, Canadian Nurses Association
1969 - present Member, College of Nurses of Ontario
Current Funding
2005 - 2008: Understanding Outcomes Following Cancer-Related Breast Surgery in Women (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation)
2006 - 2007: Evidence based practices in the integration of services for individuals with specialized needs (Ontario Mental Health Foundation and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care)
2006 - 2007: Development of an evaluation framework to ensure Continuity of Care and Best Practices in Early Stroke Care (Ontario Stroke Strategy)
2006 - 2007: Simulated clinical learning experiences: evaluation of effectiveness (ARC Queen's University and School of Nursing, Queen's University)
2006 - 2007: Mapping interventions for care coordination (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2006 - 2008: Understanding chronic pain in women following surgery (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2005 - 2006: Identification, concept and bibliometric analyses of organization change theories/frameworks (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2005 - 2007: Development and implementation of an electronic nurse-sensitive documentation system (The Change Foundation and MOHLTC Nursing Secretariat)
2004 - 2007: Evidence for Practice: Nursing Implementation Study, Queen's University (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Planning)
2004 - 2007: A regional perspective of gender differences in functional decline of older persons living with symptomatic heart failure: The role of supportive resources (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2004 - 2007: Enhancing Continuing in Pediatrics (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2004 - 2006: Preceptorship: An investigation of issues from the perspective of three stakeholder group (preceptors, students, agencies/employers) (Queen's University School of Nursing)
2003 - 2008: Community Randomised Control Trial of the Effectiveness of Two Compression Bandaging Technologies (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2003 - 2008: Building Capacity: Development of a transdisciplinary team for improving the quality of health care (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
2000 - present: Policy, Evidence and Practice with Chronic Wounds: A Socio-Historic Study of Leg Ulcer Care 1800 - 2000 (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
Selected Publications
Publications in Press
Harrison MB; Graham ID; Logan J; Toman C; Friedberg E, (in press), Pre-post implementation study of a resource for self-management with heart failure, Evidence-Based Health Care
Hurdowar A; Graham ID; Bayley M; Harrison MB; Wood-Dauphinee S; Bhogal S, (in press), Quality of stroke rehabilitation clinical practice guidelines, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Key Selected Publications
Graham ID; Harrison MB; Cerniuk B; Bauer S, (2006), A community-researcher alliance to improve chronic wound care, Knowledge Translation Casebook, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, 37-41
The Improved Clinical Effectiveness through Behavioural Research Group (ICEBeRG): Angus D; Brouwers M; Driedger M; Eccles M; Francis J; Godin G; Graham ID; Grimshaw J; Hanna S; Harrison MB; Legare F; Lemyre L; Logan J; Martino R; Pomey M-P; Tetroe J, (2006), Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions, Implementation Science, Vol.1, Issue 4, http://www.implementationscience.com/content/pdf/1748-5908-1-4.pdf
Godfrey C; Harrison MB; Medves JM; Tranmer JE, (2006), The symptom of pain with heart failure, Journal of Cardiac Failure, Vol.12, Issue 4, 307-313
Doran DM; Harrison MB; Spence-Laschinger H; Hirdes J; Rukholm E; Sidani S; McGillis-Hall L; Tourangeau A, (2006), Nursing sensitive outcomes data collection in acute care and long-term care settings, Nursing Research, Vol.55, Issue 2S, S75-S81
Doran DM; Harrison MB; Laschinger HS; Hirdes JP; Rukholm E; Sidani S; Hall LM; Tourangeau A, (2006), Relationship between nursing interventions and outcome achievement in acute care settings, Research in Nursing and Health, Vol.29, 61-70
VanDenKerkhof EG; Harrison MB; Friedberg E, (2005), Prevalence of adverse events in acute care: Pressure ulcer risk & occurrence over ten years, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 161, Supplement, S58
Mackey, M; Draper S; Harrison MB; Friedberg E, (2005), Possible contributing factors in pressure ulcer prevalence: A pilot study of two medical units, Wound Care Canada, Vol.3, Issue 1, 38-40
Harrison MB; Friedberg E; Mackey M; Draper S, (2005), 2005 Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Report, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa Hospital
Harrison MB, Lorimer K, Friedberg E; Carley M, (2005), Self Management with Leg Ulcers. Technical Report to Smith-Nephew
Kerr L; Harrison MB; Medves J; Tranmer J, (2004), Supportive care needs of parents of children with cancer in transition from diagnosis to treatment, Oncology Nursing Forum, Vol.31, Issue 6, E116-E126
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