Staff Profile Prof. Jo Rycroft-Malone

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Jo’s particular interests and expertise lie in knowledge translation research including how and why evidence or knowledge do or do not get used in practice. Currently she is responsible for leading the strategic direction and development of a knowledge translation research programme within the Centre for Health Related Research.

Editor:

Inaugural Editor of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
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Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action
Jo Rycroft-Malone (Editor), Tracey Bucknall (Editor)

Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence- Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action, looks at ways of implementing evidence gained through research and factors that influence successful implementation. It acknowledges the gap that exists between obtaining evidence and the practicalities of putting it into practice and provides direction to help to close this gap. This, the first book in the series, helps the reader to make decisions about the appropriateness of using various models and frameworks. A selection of models and frameworks are examined in detail including examples of their use in practice. The book concludes with an analysis and synthesis of the included models and frameworks. More information from publishers and Amazon

Funding Board Membership:

NIHR Service Delivery & Organisation Programme Commissioning Board, 2009 –

Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Knowledge Translation Research Panel, 2007 –

Other Board Membership

National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence’s Implementation Strategy group member (October 2008 – September 2011).

Chief Medical Officer’s ‘High Level Clinical Effectiveness Group: Clinical Effectiveness Research Agenda Group’ – developing a national (England) research agenda/strategy for evidence-based clinical effectiveness, April 2008 – 2009

Competitively funded projects:

1. Jo Rycroft-Malone (PI), Sue Dopson (University of Oxford), Gill Harvey (University of Manchester), Brendan McCormack (University of Ulster), Carl Thompson (University of York), Richard Baker (University of Leicester), Ian Graham I (CIHR, Canada), Sophie Sophie Stanisweska (University of Warwick), Gavin Andrews (McMaster, Canada),

Evaluating Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in action: process, impact and theory development.

NIHR Service Delivery & Organisation Programme
£600,000
(under contract negotiations – due to start January 2010)

2. UK: Jo Rycroft-Malone (Bangor), Seers K (Warwick), Harvey G (Manchester),
McCormack (Ulster), McCarthy (Cork) Titchen A & Cox K (Fontys, Netherlands),
Wallin L, (Sweden), Estabrooks (Canada), Kitson A (Australia)

A process and outcome evaluation of facilitation - implementing recommendations for continence care in older people.

EU FP7 – Health Collaborative Programme grant - Research into Practice
3 million euros (start date 1 January 2009)

3. Burton C, Rycroft-Malone J, McCormack B et al

Realistic synthesis of integrated health and social care.

Welsh Office Research & Development (WORD) Fund,
£15,000, 1 October 2009

4. Jones P, Rycroft-Malone J, Thomas A et al –

Evaluating the use of podcasts in teaching about research.

Health Education Authority, funding awarded December 2008: £5,000 for one year

5. Principal investigator: Windle G, Co-investigators: Rycroft-Malone J, Noyes J, Woods B et al

Resilience through the lifespan

Medical Research Council - £50,000
Start 1 April 2009

6. Williams A & Noyes J (PIs), Co-investigators: Sharp, Brockelhurst, Jackson, Rycroft-Malone, Tudor-Edwards, Russell, Allen, Lewis, Carter.

Evidence into practice: evaluating a child centred intervention for diabetes medicine management (incorporating the PARIHS framework).

NIHR: Service Delivery & Organisation programme.
£399.993
April 2008- for 3 years

7. Principal investigator:

Evaluating the effectiveness of different knowledge translation strategies for the implementation of best practice in perioperative fasting in the UK’s NHS. Final Report

Funded by The Health Foundation - £390,000

8. Principal investigator:

The contribution of nursing, midwifery and health visiting to protocol based care and its variants on organisation, patient and staff outcomes, and quality of care.

Funded by NIHR Service Delivery & Organisation (SDO) Programme - £200,000

9. Principal investigator:

Exploring clinical decision-making using protocols.

Funded by NIHR Service Delivery & Organisation (SDO) Programme - £95,000

10. Co-investigator: (University of Alberta).

Programme grant: Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC), the purpose of this research is to address the impact of context [i.e., work environment] on knowledge use and the subsequent impact of knowledge use on resident outcomes in long term care settings.

Principal Investigator: Professor Carole Estabrooks, University of Alberta – Funded by Canadian Institute for Health Research -$5,000,000.00 over five years

11. Co-Investigator:

Implementation and evaluation of the paediatric pain profile, a behaviour rating scale to assess pain in children with severe neurological impairment.

Funded by The Health Foundation - £197,000 - Principal investigator Dr Anne Hunt, University of Lancaster

12. Co-investigator:

The influence of context, facilitation and evidence on sustained change in nursing practice following implementation of best-practice guidelines.

Principal Investigators: Judith Ritchie & Sonia Semenic (Canada).
Canadian Nurses Foundation ($30,000) and matched funding ($30,000) McGill.

13. Co-investigator:

Improving the Quality of Care through Routine, Successful Implementation of Evidence-based Practice at the Bedside.

Funded by the Robert Woods Johnston Foundation (United States) Principal Investigator Dr Cheryl Stetler, Boston University & Independent Consultant, United States.

Publications since 2000

Jo Rycroft-Malone, Marina Fontenla, Debra Bick, Kate Seers A realistic evaluation: The case of protocol-based care Implementation Science 2010, 5:38

Stetler CB, Ritchie JA, Rycroft-Malone J, Schultz AA, Charns MP Institutionalizing evidence-based practice: an organizational case study using a model of strategic change Implementation Science 2009, 4:78

Debra E Bick, Jo Rycroft-Malone & Marina Fontenla A case study evaluation of implementation of a care pathway to support normal birth in one English birth centre: anticipated benefits and unintended consequences BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2009, 9:47doi:10.1186/1471-2393-9-47, Published: 5 October 2009 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/9/47)

Rycroft-Malone J & Bick D (2009) Standardising care using integrated care pathways: if they seem like a solution did we ask the right questions? International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare, 7: 59-60 (editorial)

Rycroft-Malone J, Dopson S, Degner L, Hutchinson AM, Morgan D, Stewart N, Estabrooks CA Study protocol for the translating research in elder care (TREC): building context through case studies in long-term care project (project 2) Implementation Science 2009, 4:53 (11 August 2009)

Eccles MP, Armstrong D, Baker R, Cleary K, Davies H, Davies S, Glasziou P, Ilott I, Kinmonth A, Leng G, Logan S, Marteau T, Michie S, Rogers H, Rycroft-Malone J, Sibbald B An implementation research agenda Implementation Science 2009, 4:18 (7 April 2009) (‘highly accessed’)

Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M, Seers K, Bick D. (2009) Protocol-based care: The 
standardization of decision-making? Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18; 1488-1498

Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M, Bick D, Seers K (2008) Protocol-based care: Impact on roles and service delivery Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 14, 867-873

Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M, Bick D, Seers K. (2008) Protocol-based care
Evaluation Project. Final report: NIHR SDO Programme

Kitson A. Rycroft-Malone J. Harvey G. McCormack B, Seers K, Titchen A.
Evaluating the successful implementation of evidence into practice using the PARIHS framework: theoretical and practical challenges. Implementation Science – 2008, 3:1 (7 January 2008) (‘highly accessed’)

Rycroft-Malone, J. Evidence-informed practice: From individual to context (2008) Journal of Nursing Management, Special Issue: 16(4), 404-408

Rycroft-Malone, J. Theory and knowledge translation: Setting some co-ordinates? Nursing Research 56(4S), S78-85

Stetler, C., Ritchie, J., Rycroft-Malone, J., et al. Improving Quality of Care through Routine, Successful Implementation of Evidence-based Practice at the Bedside: An Organizational Case Study Protocol Using the Pettigrew & Whipp Model of Strategic Change. Implementation Science 2007, 2:3   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-2-3 (‘highly accessed’).

Stetler, C.B., Legro, M. Rycroft-Malone, J et al. Role of ‘external facilitation’ in the implementation of research findings: a qualitative evaluation of facilitation experiences in the Veterans Health Administration.  Implementation Science, 1(23) http:www.implementationscience.com/content/1/1/23 (‘highly accessed’)

Rycroft-Malone, J. The politics of evidence-based practice: Legacies and current challenges (2006) Journal of Research in Nursing, volume 11(1), 95-108

Fontenla, M. & Rycroft-Malone, J. (2006) Issues and challenges in research governance and ethics: A guide for novice researchers. Nursing Standard, Feb
15-21, 20(23), 41-46

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2005) Commentary, Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Sep-Oct;32(5):300-1.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2005) The case of the singing man. Reflections on Nursing Leadership 31(2):20-2, 42.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Seers, K. Kitson, A.. McCormack, B. & Titchen, A. (2004) An exploration of the factors that influence the implementation of evidence into practice Journal of Clinical Nursing, 13, 913-924.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Morrell C. & Bick D. (2004) Protocol-based care: The research agenda. Nursing Standard, 19(6), 33-36.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2004) The PARIHS framework – A framework for guiding the implementation of evidence-based practice. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 19(4), 297-304.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Seers, K. Titchen, A. Kitson, A. Harvey, G. McCormack, B. (2004) What counts as evidence in evidence based practice? Journal of Advanced Nursing, 47(1), 81-90.

Richens Y. Rycroft-Malone J. & Morrell C. (2004) Getting guidelines into practice – a review, Nursing Standard. 18(50), 33-40.

Rycroft-Malone J. & Stetler C. (2004) Commentary of Evidence, research, knowledge: A call for conceptual clarity, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 1(2), p98-101

Rycroft-Malone, J. Kitson, A. Harvey, G. McCormack, B. Seers, K. Titchen, A. & Estabrooks, C. (2002) Ingredients for change: Revisiting a conceptual framework, Quality and Safety in Health Care,11, 174 – 180.

Harvey, G. Loftus-Hills, A. Rycroft-Malone, J. Titchen, A. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. Getting evidence into practice: the role and function of facilitation (2002), Journal of Advanced Nursing,37(6), 577 – 588.

McCormack, B. Kitson, A. Harvey, G. Rycroft-Malone, J. Titchen, A. & Seers, K. (2002) Getting evidence into practice - the meaning of ‘context’, Journal of Advanced Nursing,38(1), 94 – 104.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. Titchen, A. (2002) Getting evidence into practice: ingredients for change Nursing Standard 16(37), 38 – 43.

Rycroft-Malone, J.(2002) Evidence into practice: Experiences from the RCN Learning and Skills Research, 5(3), 51-52.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2001) Formal consensus: the development of a national clinical guideline, Quality & Safety in Health Care, 10, 238 – 244.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Latter, S. Yerrell, P. & Shaw, D. (2001) Consumerism in health care: the case of medication education Journal of Nursing Management 9, 221 – 230.

Latter, S. Rycroft-Malone, J. Yerrell, P. & Shaw, D. (2001) Nurses’ educational preparation for a medication education role: findings from a national survey, Nurse Education Today, 21 (2), 143-154.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2001) RCN guideline aims to reduce prevalence of pressure ulcers. Guidelines in Practice, 4(11), 31-36. Rycroft-Malone, J. (2001) Pressure ulcers - risk assessment and prevention. Practice Nurse, 9 February, pp46-48.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Latter, S. Yerrell, P. & Shaw, D. (2000) Nursing and Medication Education: Issues and Practices, Nursing Standard,14:(50), 35-39.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2000) The challenge of a weak evidence base – formal consensus and guideline development, Journal of Clinical Excellence, 2:35 – 41.

Rycroft-Malone, J. & Duff, L. (2000) Developing clinical guidelines: issues and challenges, Journal of Tissue Viability, 10(4), 144-153.

Latter, S. Rycroft-Malone, J. Yerrell, P. & Shaw, D. (2000) Evaluating educational preparation for a health education role in practice: the case of medication education, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(5), 1282-1290.

Latter, S. Yerrell, P. Rycroft-Malone, J. & Shaw, D. (2000) Nursing, medication education and the new policy agenda: the evidence base, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 37(6):469 – 479.

Latter, S. Yerrell, P. Rycroft-Malone, J. & Shaw, D. (2000) Governance and health promotion: a case study of medication education, Health Education Journal, 59:253-266.

Rycroft-Malone, J. & Duff, L. (2000) Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention: clinical practice guidelines, Nursing Standard,14(40) 31

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2000) Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention – new guidelines for practice. Primary Health Care, 10(9), 32-33

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2000) Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention Clinical Guideline: RCN Publishing: London www.rcn.org.uk

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2001) – Inherited Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention Clinical Guideline: London www.nice.org.uk

Latter, S. Yerrell P. Rycroft-Malone, J. & Shaw D. (2000) Nursing And Medication Education: Concept analysis research for curriculum and practice development, London: English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research Report Series, Series 15

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2002) Clinical Guidelines, In Clinical decision-making and judgement in nursing, Editors Thompson, C. & Dowding, D. London, Churchill Livingstone.

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2004) Research Implementation: Evidence, Context and Facilitation – the PARIHS framework. In Practice Development in Nursing. Editors McCormack, B. Manley, K. and Garbett, R. Oxford: Blackwell Science, P118-147

Conference presentations since 2000

Invited

Keynote
Keynote - International Nursing Intervention Conference – Montreal, Canada April 2011

Keynote – RCN International Research Society Conference, Newcastle Gateshead, May 2010

Plenary: Are service users benefiting from practice enhancement and how? International Enhancing Practice Conference, Belfast, September 2010

 

Keynote - Bergen University College – Norway – International Evidence-Based Nursing Conference – Integrating Evidence into Practice, May 2008

Keynote – University of Iowa and University Hospital (United States) 15th National Evidence-Based Practice Conference, April 2008:
‘Back to the future: Contemporary issues and future developments in evidence-based practice’

Keynote – National research school in nursing and caring postgraduate conference, Sweden, November 2007

Keynote – Sigma Theta Tau International Research Conference – Vienna, July 2007

Keynote – Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) research conference – Toronto - June 2007

Keynote – Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Evidence-based practice in nursing: Paradigms and dialogue - April 2007

Keynote – University of Ottawa’s Clinical Nursing Research Conference – May 2005. ‘Knowledge Transfer: A contact sport’.

Keynote - Evidence-Based Practice Pre-conference, Sigma Theta Tau’s International Nursing Research Congress, Dublin, UK 2004 – ‘Looking back to the future’ – Realising the potential of evidence-based nursing

Keynote – Complexities and challenges of implementing evidence into practice – Martha McMenamin seminar – Northern Ireland, UK – February 2004

Plenary

Plenary - Using and applying realist synthesis, University of Iowa and University Hospital (United States) 15th National Evidence-Based Practice Conference, April 2008

Plenary - Grand Rounds Presentation. University of McGill and Hospitals, Montreal, Canada, October 2007:
‘Changing practice: Issues and Challenges’

Plenary: – Complexities and challenges of getting evidence into practice – McGill University, GRISM, Montreal, Canada, October 2007:
‘Knowledge translation & the research agenda: Enhancing the potential’

Plenary - Discussant to Prof Trisha Greenhalgh: ESRC seminar series: What is evidence in evidence-based practice and policy? University of Manchester & University of Birmingham – 9 December 2006, University of Birmingham.

Plenary – The life and times of the PARIHS framework, Knowledge Utilisation Studies Programme Spring Institute, University of Alberta, May 2005

Plenary – Ingredients for change – introducing a conceptual framework – Social Services Research Group Annual Workshop 2004 (March) – Improving practice and performance in social care and health.

Plenary – Change agent approaches – Key issues and challenges - Knowledge Utilisation Colloquium (2004) Belfast, UK

Plenary – Fostering knowledge translation – key issues and challenges. National Institute for Clinical Studies & Joanna Briggs Institute symposium, Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Midwifery. University of Melbourne, Australia July 2004

Plenary – Facilitating guidelines into practice. National Institute for Clinical Studies & Joanna Briggs Institute symposium, Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Midwifery. University of Melbourne, Australia, July 2004

Seminars

Rycroft-Malone J, Chandler-Oatts J, Hawkes C, Seers K, Bullock I, et al Peri-operative fasting guideline implementation project: Getting evidence into practice
RCN International Research Conference, Cardiff, March 2009

Rycroft-Malone J, Stetler C, Ritchie J, et al Improving the Quality of Care through Routine, Successful Implementation of Evidence-based Practice, RCN International Research Conference, Cardiff, March 2009

Bullock I, Rycroft-Malone J, Chandler-Oatts J, Hawkes C, Seers K et al Peri-operative fasting guideline implementation project: How to change practice. International Guideline Implementation Network (GIN) conference, Helsinki, October 2008

Rycroft-Malone J, Stetler C, Ritchie J, et al Improving the Quality of Care through Routine, Successful Implementation of Evidence-based Practice, Singapore, July 2008.

Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M, Seers K, Bick D. Protocol-based care: Impact on roles and service delivery. RCN International Research Conference. Liverpool, April 2008.

Chandler-Oatts J, Rycroft-Malone J, Hawkes C, et al Using theory in the development of evidence implementation strategies. RCN International Research Conference. Liverpool, April 2008.

Kent B, McCormack B, Rycroft-Malone J, Harvey G Using and applying realist synthesis. Symposium, RCN International Research Conference. Liverpool, April 2008.

Bick D, Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M. Evidence to support normal birth: impact on practice and service delivery of use of an integrated care pathway in one English birth centre. International Congress of Midwives, Glasgow, June, 2008.

Bick D, Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M. Assessing the impact of protocol-based care on practice, patients and service delivery: results from a UK study. JBI international conference, Adelaide, Australia, November 2007.

Rycroft-Malone J, Fontenla M, Bick D Protocol-based care: an approach to advancing evidence-based practice? issues and practice. Sigma Theta Tau International Research Conference, Vienna July 2007.

Patterson M, Rycroft-Malone J et al - Protocol-based care in action
Symposium RCN International Research Conference Dundee May 2007.

Seminar – A debate: The usefulness of research to those who provide services – Research in Practice Network – The Nuffield Foundation, London 28 November 2006

Seminar workshop – Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Convention – Meet the Editors – Getting published. Indianapolis, November 12-16 2005

Seminar workshop – Swedish Nurses’ Society – invitational 2 day seminar on the PARIHS framework – the role of evidence, context and facilitation in getting evidence into practice, November 22-23 2005

Seminar – Evaluating the effectiveness of different implementation strategies. Invited contribution, ESRC Research Unit for Research Utilisation, St Andrews, Scotland, November 2004

Seminar - Getting evidence into practice; evidence, context and facilitation. Invited contribution ESRC Evidence Network Seminar, Research Unit for Research Utilisation, St Andrews, Scotland, UK. 2002

Seminar - Getting evidence into practice: experiences from health services, Invited speaker: Learning and Skills Agency, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 2002

Plenary – Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention: the development of a national clinical guideline, Invited speaker, Tissue Viability Society Conference, University of Keele, 2001

Abstract based

Rycroft-Malone J. Seers K. Chandler-Oatts J. & Bullock I. Evaluating the implementation of evidence into practice: Methodological challenges. RCN International Research Society Conference, York 2006

Rycroft-Malone J., Bucknall T., Melnyk B et al (2005) Getting published. Evidence-based practice pre-conference, Sigma Theta Tau’s International Research Conference, Hawaii

Rycroft-Malone J. & Harvey G. (2004) A framework for enabling the implementation of evidence-based practice – the PARIHS project. Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, St Andrews University, UK.

Rycroft-Malone J. (2004) Lessons Learned from the UK. Part of an international symposium: Implementation of research evidence into practice: International perspectives and initiatives, Bucknall T. Dobbins M., & Titler M. Evidence-Based Practice Pre-conference, Sigma Theta Tau’s International Nursing Research Congress, Dublin, UK

Rycroft-Malone, J. Kitson, A. Harvey, G. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A (2003) The factors that mediate the implementation of evidence into practice, RCN Research Society Conference, Manchester, UK

Rycroft-Malone, J. (2003) Patient participation in medication education interactions. RCN Research Society Conference, Manchester, UK

Rycroft-Malone, J. Kitson, A. Harvey, G. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A. (2001) Seminar session: Getting evidence into practice, 7th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care Conference, Bologna, Italy.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A. (2001) Seminar session – Implementing evidence into practice: revisiting a conceptual framework, 1st International Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A (2001) Concurrent paper – Implementing evidence into practice, 4th International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A (2001) Concurrent paper – A framework for implementing evidence based practice, RCN Research Society Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Rycroft-Malone, J. Harvey, G. Kitson, A. McCormack, B. Seers, K. & Titchen, A. (2001) Symposium paper – Innovative approaches to getting evidence into practice, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Annual Conference, London, UK.

Latter, S. Rycroft-Malone, J. Yerrell, P. & Shaw, D. (2000) Symposium: Nursing And Medication Education, Annual RCN Research Conference, Sheffield, UK.