Barbara L. Davies

Co-Director, Nursing Best Practice Research Unit
In collaboration with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario

http://www.nbpru.ca/

Biography

Barbara Davies RN PhD is a Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Ottawa. She completed a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1999 and then received a five-year career scientist award (2000-2005) from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care of Ontario for a research program entitled Research Transfer for Maternal-Infant Health. Professor Davies also received a five-year Premier’s Research Excellence award (2004-2009) to support a program of research entitled Interventions to Support Successful Sustained Research Transfer in Nursing Practice and Health Care. In 2009, she received the Dean’s Award of Excellence (teaching, research, administration and service).  In 2011, she received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto acknowledging consistent research funding from provincial and national funding councils, a broad range of publications and the supervision of many Masters and PhD graduate students.  


Her current research program focuses on knowledge translation, specifically the implementation of nursing best practice guidelines to improve patient outcomes and nursing service delivery.  She is working actively with the RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO ®) initiatives in hospitals, public health, home health care services and primary health care. Topics include breast feeding, smoking cessation, pain management, fall prevention, wound care as well as delirium-dementia-depression. A major focus involves examining sustainability and spread models to promote evidence-based health care.

Research Interests

• Evidence-based health care
• Clinical practice guidelines
• Knowledge translation
• Outcomes monitoring
• Maternal-newborn care

Publications

Books

Chapters in books

Papers

• Graham, K., Davies, B., Woodend, K., Simpson, J., Mantha, S. (2011). Impacting Canadian Public Health Nurses’ Job Satisfaction.  Canadian Journal of Public Health 102 (6) 427-431.

• Watson, J., Hodnett, E., Armson, A., Davies, B., Watt-Watson, J. (In Press) The effect of intrapartum intravenous fluid management  on breastfed newborn weight loss: A randomized controlled trial. JOGNN. 

• Higuchi, K, Davies B., Edwards, N., Ploeg, J., & Virani, T. (2011) Implementation of clinical guidelines for adults with asthma and diabetes: A three year follow-up evaluation of nursing care.   Journal of Clinical Nursing 20, 1329-1338 , doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03590.x

• Gifford, W., Davies, B., Tourangeau, A., & Lefebre, N. (2011). Developing team leadership to facilitate guideline utilization: Planning and evaluating a 3-momth intervention strategy. Journal of Nursing Management. 19, 121-132. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01140.x. Epub 2010 Nov 16

• Clement, C., Stiell, I., Davies B., O’Connor, A., Brehaut J., Sheehan, P., Clavet T., Leclair C., & MacKenzie T. (2011). Perceived facilitators and barriers to clinical clearance of the cervical spine by emergency department nurses: A major step towards changing practice in the emergency department. International Emergency Nursing doi:10.1016/j.iemj.2009.12.002 19, 44-52.

• Groll, D., Davies, B., MacDonald, J., Nelson, S., Virani, T. (2010). Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the phlebitis and infiltration scales for the assessment of complications of peripheral vascular access devices. Journal of Infusion Nursing 33(6):385-390, November/December 2010. doi: 10.1097/NAN.0b013e3181f85a73

• Ploeg, J., Skelly, J., Rowan, M., Edwards, N,  Davies, B , Grinspun, D., Bajnok, I. Downey, A.  (2010). The Role of Nursing Best Practice Champions in Diffusing Practice Guidelines: A Mixed Methods Study.   Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing .7 (4): 238-251. Award Sigma Theta Tau International 2011 Best of WORLDviews on Evidence-Based Nursing            
  

• Stiell, I., Clement, C., O’Connor, A., Davies, B., Leclair, C., Sheehan, P., Clavet, T., Beland, C., Mackenzie, T., & Wells, G. (2010). Multicenter prospective validation of use of the Canadian C-Spine Rule by triage nurses in the emergency department. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 182(11): 1173-1179.

• Davies, B.  (2010) Last Word- Nursing research wants its due. Canadian Nurse, 106(2):46 La recherche infirmière veut ce qui lui revient Infirmière Canadienne 11,2:32

• Stacey, D., Higuchi, K., Menard, P., Davies, B., Graham, I., & O’Connor, A. (2009). Integrating patient decision support in an undergraduate nursing curriculum: An implementation project. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 6:1, Article 10.

• Gifford, W.A., Davies, B., Graham I., Lefebre, N., Tourangeau, A.,  & Woodend , K. (2008).  A mixed methods pilot study with a cluster randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of a leadership intervention on guideline implementation in home care nursing. Implementation Science, 3:51.

• Payant, L., Davies B., Graham, I., Peterson. W., & Clinch, J. (2008). Nurses’ intentions to provide continuous labor support to women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 37(4):405-414.

• Smith, D., Edwards, N., Materns, P., Varcoe, C., & Davies B. (2008). The influence of
  governance on organizations experiences of improving care for aboriginal people: Decolonizing possibilities. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, 6(1): 3-28.

• Mantha, S., & Davies, B., Moyer, A., Crowe, C. (2008). Providing responsive care to new mothers with high and low confidence. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 33(5):307-314.

• Gifford, W. & Davies B. (2008). Doing the right things to do things          right: A commentary to: Leadership and the use of evidence in practice. Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing, 170-171

• D’Amour, D., Timmons, V., Sheps, S., & Davies, B. (2008). Knowledge to action: The development of training strategies.  Healthcare Policy,3 Special Issue 68-79. Des connaissances à la pratique: la création de stratégies de
  formation

• Davies, B., Edwards, N., Ploeg, J., & Virani, T. (2008).  Insights about the process and impact of implementing nursing guidelines on delivery of care in hospitals and community settings.BMC Health Services Research, 8 (29): 1-44.

• Sprague, A., Oppenheimer, L., McCabe L, Graham I., & Davies B. (2008). Knowledge to action: Implementing a guideline for second stage labor.  MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 33(3): 179-188.

• Peterson, W., Medves J., Davies, B., & Graham I. (2007). Multidisciplinary collaborative maternity care in Canada: Easier said than done. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Canada,29(11): 880-886.

• Ploeg, J., Davies, B., Edwards, N., Gifford, W., & Elliot-Miller, P. (2007). Factors influencing best practice guideline implementation: Lessons learned from administrators, nursing staff and project leads. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 4(4): 210-219.                 

• St.Pierre, I., Davies, B., Edwards, N., & Griffin P. (2007). Policies and procedures: A tool to support the implementation of clinical guidelines?  Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership,  20(4): 63-78.

• Gifford, W. Davies, B., Edwards, N., & Griffin, P. (2007). Managerial leadership for nurses’ use of research evidence: An integrative review of the literature   Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 4(3): 126-145. 

• Edwards, N., Davies, B., Ploeg J. Virani T, & Skelly J. (2007). Implementing nursing best practice guidelines: Impact on patient referrals. BMC Nursing, 6 (4): 1-9. 

• Higuchi, K., Edwards, N., Danseco, E., & Davies B., McConnell, H. (2007). Development of an evaluation tool for a clinical practice guideline on nursing assessment and device selection for vascular access. Journal of Infusion Therapy, 30 (1): 45-54.