Summary of Activity:
This quarter the DOR focused on activities at the Annual Meeting and
50th Anniversary celebration at ACNM, as well as continued
work on some major projects.
The Annual Meeting activities
included the Research Forums, Poster presentations, Scholar's Colloquium,
DOR education session, Finding Evidence to Support Practice: Developing
Effective Internet Search Strategies, and joint premier session
with the DOW, Gender Equity in Women's Health and Research: 20th
Century Accomplishments and 21st Century Challenges.
A workshop on developing a research trajectory using a Community
of Scholars was conducted by Elizabeth Jesse and Terri Collins.
The Ortho/ACNM Scholars presented a round table during lunch. This was
well received and a second session, as well as an educational session
to explore funding streams for research is planned for 2006.
The DOR BOG members met with
the MANA Division of Research and Board members at the Annual Meeting
and agreed to serve in an advisory capacity to their group. We discussed
this as a board and sought approval from the BOD to enter into a non-binding,
collaborative relationship to explore research interests common and
important to both organizations. This meeting went well and initial
areas of collaboration will include sharing our respective research
agendas, discussing how our sections working on midwifery practice data
must communicate with one another, collaborating on research educational
sessions, and sharing how we negotiate release of membership information
for research purposes.
The draft research agenda was presented
to the BOD by Leslie Cragin at the Annual Meeting and was accepted.
An education session titled Using the ACNM Research
Agenda to Inform Practice and Influence Politics.
ICM Congress, July 2005, Brisbane,
AU - Dr. Kennedy, as the Co-Chair of the ICM Research Standing Committee
(RSC), has worked with international midwives to conduct four research
workshops on 1) developing guidelines for international research collaboration,
2) evaluating research in developing countries, 3) setting research
priorities, and 4) scientific writing for midwives. Finally, the DOR
and IHC have been working with the ICM RSC to co-host a social event
for midwives to network internationally in research.
Data and Information Management
Section (Amy Levi)
Summary of activity
or key issues since last report
Engaged in email
correspondence with Chair and other DOR members.
Reviewed and commented
on student outreach project.
Project list
Development &
refinement of data collection about midwifery practice and education
Revision of the Nurse-Midwifery
Clinical Dataset:
Data analysis continuing.
PBRN-No ACNM DOR
related activity this quarter.
Liaison to DOSP,
DOME and DOE:
Membership
No
new activity this quarter
Research Advisory Section
(Patricia A. Murphy)
A:
The Survey Advisory Task:
The Survey section was designed
to work closely with the ACNM Senior Staff Researcher (Kerri Schuiling,
CNM) and the ACNM National Office on specific tasks related to membership
surveys. The main goals in this area are related to revising the annual
membership survey for analytic needs and appropriate uses as determined
by the national office, and the review and development of National Office
sponsored Web-based surveys to elicit information from the membership.
Activities since last report:
Data analysis and reporting
of the survey on the ACNM Research Agenda survey was done. The
DOR Survey Section remains ready to assist the national office in revising
the ACNM Membership Survey.
MEMBERS: Peter Johnson, Leah
Albers, Judith Fullerton, Theresa Sipe (survey advisory task). Specific
assistance will be sought from this group for specific projects as needed.
B:
The Survey Requests Task:
Approval of requests to contact
ACNM members for research purposes is shared with the ACNM Senior Staff
Researcher (Kerri Schuiling).
Activities since last report:
Approval was granted for one
project to survey ACNM members at the annual meeting. This was a survey
of CNM/CMs screening practices regarding depression.
MEMBERS: The work of this section
task does not require a general membership.
International Section
(Judith Fullerton)
1. Summary of activity or
key issues since last report
Project list initiated
by selection or assignment of IH section members to various tasks
Communication continued
with ACNM IH Committee; B Anderson willing and supportive of July/August
2007 JMWH special issue and will assist in identifying potential authors
2. Project list
Coordination with
ACNM IH Committee and ACNM Department of Global Outreach to prepare
a "meet and greet" for international researchers at ICM Triennial
Congress, August, 2005 - continues
Decision made to
support DOR in hosting a single "meet and greet", in the interest
of time and money.
Coordination with
Tekoa King, Editor-in-Chief, JMWH, to plan for a JMWH special focus
issue on IH tentatively planned for July/August 2007. - continues
Several potential
authors have already expressed a willingness; two have expressed a commitment.
Database of international
midwifery research being done by ACNM members - project abandoned
IH
section members agreed that keeping this project
"current" would be too burdensome.
A new project was
selected by IH Section members to replace the database project -
ongoing
The
DOR website will contain a blinking cursor that links to
"breaking news" found in
journal articles. International Section members agreed to survey the
international journal databases and to derive a
"Top 10" or "Top 20" list of important perinatal
journals. Members would then divide the journals among the members (reducing
overall workload), and each member would commit to reviewing the table
of contents of each new issue of journals to which they have been assigned.
If important "late breaking news" of interest (e.g. application
to clinical practice, new scientific discovery) is
published, member will alert the Section Chair (sending abstract at
minimum, PDF or full-text article if possible) and writing a summary.
Chair will then forward the summary and the bib
reference to the DOR Chair, for consideration for posting on the DOR
website.
3. Membership
There was discussion about
the process of application to DOR and assignment to Sections, including
discussion of
currency of SROP
in the matter, and
the ability of one
individual to serve simultaneously on more than one section.
Active recruitment of members
continues.
Present confirmed status is:
Currently verified as a
member: J Fullerton (Chair), C Carr, S Founds, E Jesse, B
McManis, J Raisler, K Schuiling
Eligible to serve (prior
member): A Levi
Have requested to serve;
IH Section Chair is awaiting confirmation from DOR Chair and Chair,
Networking Section, of appointment/assignment: L Kane-Low, Annie
Richardson, Jenny Foster, N Villa
Prior member of the section
who, after being contacted, declined further service: J Mercer
Prior members of the section
who have not responded to several contacts: suggest they be notified
of end of service on the section:
S Bush, K Kravitz, H Johnson
Networking Section
(Nancy Sullivan)
Project list and summary
of activity since last report:
DOR membership
management: (see #6)
Student Committee
- development of student interest & participation in research:
Project proposal submitted by Beth McManis and reviewed by DORBOG at
December meeting was returned to Beth with recommendations for revisions.
She revised the document accordingly and resubmitted it. DORBOG
decided to defer moving forward on this project until after the spring
meeting.
Link midwifery
researchers to one another and clinical sites via Midwifery Researchers'
Directory (coordinated with International Section): No recent activity
in this project.
Interdisciplinary
networking - (public health, CDC, etc.): There has been no activity
in this area.
Send letters
of appointments to new members of the DOR: No applications since
previous report.
Maintain and
update a DOR membership list indicating expiration of terms: I continue
to update the database of DOR members as I get new information.
DOR Research Dissemination
and Development Section (Leslie Cragin on behalf of Lisa Hanson, Incoming
Chair)
These activities support the
strategic goal to:
Further develop the quantitative
and qualitative evidence-base to support midwifery practice.
#1 Summary of Activity
or key issues since last report
Annual Meeting Activities
Forums and Posters
were a big hit at the annual Meeting- we had more abstracts submitted
than ever, we need 3 research forums again next year
The Community of
Scholars workshop went well, as did the Ed Session on Using the Internet
(the DOR Website). A second Community of Scholars Workshop is being
planned for next year.
The Collecting and
Analyzing Workshop went well- would like to repeat next year with support
from a hardware and software company.
We will sponsor
a how to get funding for research workshop.
Joyce Roberts has
been invited to be the Colloquium Speaker next year.
#2 Project list
Revising call for
abstracts for 2006 Annual meeting.
Late breaking research
web page in progres
#3 Announcements:
Lisa Hanson has
been appointed as the new Chair of this section.
Leslie Cragin will
be the BOD liaison to the DOR. She also extends her thanks and warm
regards to this very active and hardworking committee! Lisa- thanks
for taking the helm - you're in for a treat*and some hard work, too
#4 Completed project list -
Let's face it in this section nothing is ever "completed"!
DOR membership list:
Patty Aikins Murphy, Leah Albers, Melissa Avery, Karen Baldwin, Rebecca
Benfield, Pat Burkhardt, Shirley Bush, Catherine Carr, Terri Clark,
Leslie Cragin, Joanne Davis, Mary Ellen Doherty, Cindy Farley, Sandy
Founds, Judith Fullerton, Lisa Hanson, Marie Hastings-Tolsma, Elizabeth
Jesse, Peter Johnson, Amy Levi Rousseau, Kelly Lindgren, Bill McCool,
Barbara McFarlin, Beth McManis, Maggie Mueller, Judith Mercer, Jeanne
Murphy, Holly Kennedy, Jeanne Raisler, Amy Rousseau, Lorraine Sanders,
Kerri Schuilling, Julie Seng, Nancy Sullivan, Lisa Summers, Gert Welsh.
A. Richardson, M. Kathryn Kravetz, Lisa Kane Low,
Liaison to BOD: Amy Levi
Liaison to National Office:
Kerri Schuilling
Respectfully Submitted,
Holly
Powell Kennedy
Chairperson, ACNM Division
of Research
