This document discusses the benefits of interprofessional collaboration in research. It argues that collaborative "Play Nice" research can lead to evidence-based practice, organizational benefits, an engaged staff and improved patient experiences. The document provides tips for establishing collaborative research projects, including forming partnerships both within and outside one's profession. It acknowledges barriers to clinician involvement in research like lack of time and resources, but urges readers to start small, practical projects to help drive a "research revolution" in their own organizations.

1. “Play nice together:”
How Interprofessional Collaboration Could
Make You Actually Love Research!
Prof. Philip Darbyshire
Mater 10th Annual National Conference,
Brisbane, September 2010
www.philipdarbyshire.com.au
philip@philipdarbyshire.com.au
‘Making Research Come Alive. Helping People and Practice Thrive’

2. What you can learn in a pub?

3. POKIES – ‘The crack cocaine of gambling’

4. “Most recreational gamblers play at low intensity, but the machines
allow losses of up to $1,200 per hour.” – Productivity Commission, 2009

6. The ‘Play Nice’ Research Approach
The Keys:
• Where are the collaborations and partnerships? -
not just professional but with patients, clients
families and communities.
• Have you got a team together?
• Is the project ‘do-able’ in about a year?
• Are you already and always thinking about
‘endpoints’, ‘brownie points’ and outcomes?

7. “She loved the pokies
more than she loved us”

9. Why interdisciplinary, ‘Play Nice’ research
is a Big Deal
Evidence Based Practice
Accreditation / Magnet / Organisational
standing / Monitor
Organisational Culture
Recruitment & retention
The ‘learning organisation’
Staff engagement and creativity
The Patient Experience and ‘journey’
Justify your existence

10. Make your collaborative
‘Play Nice’ project a Big Deal
Evidence Based Practice
Accreditation / Magnet / Organisational standing/Monitor
Organisational Culture
Recruitment & retention
The ‘learning organisation’
Staff engagement
Patient experience
Justify your existence

11. Our Research Tradition?
Florence Nightingale – the
passionate inquirer:
“When a profession
undertakes research, it takes
a step toward maturity and
the assumption of its social
responsibility...We must place
emphasis on the use of
research findings as well as
on the conduct of research.”

12. Are you busy?

13. The ‘Big 4’ reasons why clinicians are
not more involved in research
No
No
No
No

14. ‘No Time’

15. ‘No Money’

16. ‘No Clue’

17. ‘Not Much
Support’

18. “Oh and nurse, if you wouldn’t mind
becoming an active, externally funded and
published researcher as well, that would be
wonderful.”

19. Waiting, waiting, waiting ... ... for
• More staff
• More time
• More money
• Less patients/
work
• Inspiration
• New managers
• More education
• More resources

20. ‘Waiting for Godot’

21. Start the “Play Nice” Revolution
Simple question:
If not now, when?

22. The Vital Lessons
The world has changed and the ‘good old
days’ are never coming back.
Constant change, uncertainty, and
unpredictability is the new ‘normal’
Chaos is the new black!
If you do not have a clear agenda,
someone else will give you theirs!

24. The Clinical Hamster-Wheel

25. The Clinical Hamster-Wheel
It co$t$
Cost of replacing an experienced nurse
HSM group (USA) $145k (AUS$143k)
Norwegian estimate, 1m kroner ($200k)

26. NHHRC Health Reforms Report 2009
Research is valued and enabled as
a normal part of providing health
services.
Our health workforce is empowered
to take on the challenge of
continuous learning, research and
innovation.
A vibrant culture of innovation and
research permeates health services,
with effective linkages and
partnerships across universities,
research institutes, and hospitals
and health services

27. The ‘Dumping’ of Research

28. The ‘Play Nice’ Research Approach
The Keys:
• Where are the collaborations and partnerships? -
not just professional but with patients, clients
families and communities.
• Have you got a team together?
• Is the project ‘do-able’ in about a year?
• Are you already and always thinking about
‘endpoints’, ‘brownie points’ and outcomes?

29. ‘Play
Nice’
with
your
valued
and
trusted
colleagues

30. The Power of
ONE

31. Get a Project Going
✔
Keep the discussion of research in
practice at the abstract and theoretical
level, and you can be pretty sure that
nothing will happen.
✔ A tangible project gives people something
to gather and collaborate around.

32. Research Alert Detectors
What mechanisms could/do you have to uncover
and identify potential research/projects?
• Patient / client/service feedback
• Complaints
• Professional practice committee/team
• Ideas book

33. Ask ‘The Missouri Question’
“Show Me”

34. Many hands make?

35. Mental health experiences of young homeless people

36. Acknowledgements
Thanks to the Australian Rotary Health
Research Foundation who funded this
study and the associated artwork.
Our thanks also to Lara Sabbadin for
conducting the art workshops

43. Huge thanks to the Australian Rotary
Health Research Foundation who funded
this study and the associated artwork.
Thanks also to Lara Sabbadin for
conducting the art workshops

44. Is your networking notworking?

45. Wellesley College Sundial
“The shadow by my finger cast,
Divides the future from the past
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer
thine.
Before it lies the unknown hour
In darkness and beyond thine
power.
One hour alone is in thine
hands,
The now on which the
shadow stands.”

46. So, When’s the
Revolution Coming?
The revolution will not happen by memorandum.
Nor can you expect ‘management’ to do it for you.
If you wait for a time when you have reduced
workloads, bucketloads of money and unlimited
numbers of staff, - dream on! - you will wait for ever.
This will NEVER happen

47. So, When’s the Revolution Coming?
The revolution will happen in
your area when you start to
think and practice as if it had
already taken place.

48. “Be the change that you want to see in the
world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

49. Play Nice and Prosper!
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