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The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead. Exploring the Development of a Community of Practice for KTE Leaders Megan Harris, Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange Elizabeth Lusk, Seniors Health Research Transfer Network. Where We Have Been .

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The Road Ahead

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  1. The Road Ahead Exploring the Development of a Community of Practice for KTE Leaders Megan Harris, Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange Elizabeth Lusk, Seniors Health Research Transfer Network

  2. Where We Have Been • Discussed our experiences with networks and communities of practice as vehicles for knowledge exchange and transfer • Envisioned KTE processes and strategies to inform the Issues and Options paper • Informed the development of a national knowledge translation network

  3. What We’ve Heard • Create supportive cultures • Give voice to different types of knowledge • Capture and share experiences • Power in the human force • Multiple needs require multiple strategies

  4. Why Continue the Conversation? “If we fail to bridge these gaps, most clinicians, patients, educators, learners, researchers, policy makers, and other members of society may never benefit from the information that could best guide their decisions in health care” - Jaded et al., 2000

  5. How We Might Get There • Engaging in face-to-face or ‘real time’ exchange (formal or informal) • Collaborating early with all sectors • Using knowledge that is translated for your application and need • Accessing evidence, guidelines or tools • Developing a community of practice • Participating in facilitated meetings, or workshops • Building a steering committee or working group • Accessing facilitators to make connections

  6. The KTE Knowledge Bank www.KTEKnowledgeBank.ca

  7. Why a Knowledge Bank? • “Health care practice is most likely to be enhanced by intertwining best evidence with best informatics techniques” • “Evidence processing has been greatly accelerated by centralization of information for the development of current awareness publications and cumulative ‘best evidence’ databases” Haynes, 1998

  8. What It Is…And Is Not • IS: an interactive resource exchange that currently houses the results of a preliminary primary literature search (addition of resources from tacit survey coming soon) • IS NOT: a static website, systematic review, meta-analysis, nor a critical review of the literature

  9. Valuing ‘Knowledge’ • Explicit knowledge collection • Literature search of peer review journal databases using key words and research questions • Tacit knowledge collection • Survey of KTE leaders, as identified by working group

  10. Knowledge Bank Framework 1. Processes and strategies 2. Content or evidence 3. Culture or context 4. Facilitation including technology

  11. What We Found (explicit)

  12. What We Heard (tacit) • You feel that knowledge exchange and supportive cultures are critical to support knowledge transfer • You seek information from provincial and national organizations, networks and websites • You find teleconferences and online meetings to be the most effective use of technology for KTE • Together, you referenced 126 resources/ frameworks that you apply in your practice

  13. Your Questions • How do we measure use, results, impacts? • What frameworks, models, levers support success? • What works in different settings? • How do we effectively share information? • How do we speed up the process? • How do we secure real resources to support these mechanisms?

  14. Continuing the Momentum “Communities of practice are key. Given the choice of attending a major conference with the gurus, I would choose a CoP event. The information is geared to emerging or present issues [for which] I as a practitioner need to have solutions”

  15. What is a CoP? A forum/platform to: • connect, share and collaborate within and outside the context of your organization • engage in a process of learning and action • facilitate improvement in practice to improve quality of life for the person and family

  16. Why a CoP? • Nodes for exchange and interpretation of information and knowledge • Retain knowledge in "living" ways, unlike a database or a manual • Avoid duplication of efforts “Always a learner” - KTE survey respondent Adapted from Wenger (1999)

  17. What supports a CoP? • Dedicated resources to coordinate and facilitate activities and exchange • Mutual commitment to come together • Opportunities for varying levels of participation (get what you need, when you need it) • Central repository to facilitate sharing of existing resources and knowledge • Sense of purpose…sense of fun!

  18. What could this CoP look like? • ON GREEN – How could your organization/network benefit from this platform for exchange? • ON RED – What are your priorities? • ON YELLOW – Who else needs to be a part of this conversation?

  19. Contact Us • Megan Harris, Knowledge Broker/Coordinator, Alzheimer Knowledge Exchangemeganharris@sympatico.ca • Elizabeth Lusk, Knowledge Broker, Seniors Health Research Transfer Networkgestalt.liz@gmail.com

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