Research in Practice for Adults:
an introduction
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What is
research in practice for adults?
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Not-for-profit, partner led
Promotes evidence-informed
practice in social care:
research, practitioner
experience, service user views
Wraparound support to embed
evidence; hard-copy resources,
web resources, events,
webinars, bespoke support
Our services
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A range of relevant, accessible and timely learning
resources
Developed in consultation with our partners
Focus on emerging legislation, research and
evidence informed practice
Support continuing professional development
What is evidence-informed
practice?
research
evidence
practice
expertise
evidenceinformed
practice
views of people who use services and carers
What are the benefits of EIP?
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Staff confidence and competence
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Organisational learning
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Improved experience and outcomes for people
who use services
Why use evidence?
Think back to a client you’ve recently worked with where
you made a significant decision about their care or support.
What did you consider when making the decision?
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Intuition (gut feeling) about what will work
What you heard from other professionals in informal
exchanges
Previous experience with similar cases
What you know about cases like theirs from reading the
latest research
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What is usually offered by your service
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Feedback from other clients about what works well
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What you are most comfortable or familiar with
Why use evidence?
Now imagine you have to go into hospital for an operation.
Which criteria would you expect a medical professional to
consider when deciding what treatment to offer you?
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Intuition (gut feeling) about what will work
What they heard from other professionals in informal
exchanges
Previous experience with similar cases
What they know about cases like yours from reading the
latest research
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What is usually offered by the hospital
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Feedback from other patients about what works well
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What they are most comfortable with doing
What does EIP look like?
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Asking challenging questions about your service (why?...)
Thinking critically about the evidence base for protocols,
policies, assessments
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Reflecting on experiences and sharing what you’ve learnt
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Keeping a focus on outcomes
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Being informed (‘we know from research...’)
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Explaining the rationale for decisions
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Looking outside the organisation
What evidence do we have?
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Service user, carer views
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Adverse incidents, near misses
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Management information
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Observations
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Performance reports
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Assessments, reviews
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Compliments, complaints
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Project evaluation
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Staff views
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Research, expert opinions, guidance and reports
What does RiPfA offer?
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Support across the organisation to embed the
use of evidence
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Publications
Training
Online resources
Tools
Tailored Support
Network
Publications
Wide range of
topics
Wide range of
audiences
Practice tools,
literature
reviews,
strategic
briefings,
handbooks
All of our resources are
available to download from
the ‘resources’ section of
our website, when you
have logged in
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National programme of learning
events
Forthcoming events in 2015 include:
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How can we enable people living with dementia to live
independent and fulfilled lives? Webinar, 14th Oct
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From page to practice webinar, 20th October
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Safeguarding under the Care Act webinar, 4th November
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Working with families where LD is a factor (various)
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Working with people who experience multiple needs and
exclusions (various)
Find our latest events calendar here:
https://www.ripfa.org.uk/events/events-calendar
Email [email protected] to book your place.
Tailored support
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Workshops delivered
in-house to you and
your colleagues
Choose from a ‘menu’
of options or have us
develop a new
workshop for you.
Other tailored support options
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Evaluations
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Rapid research reviews
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Knowledge exchanges
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Retaining organisational learning
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Strategy development
Webinars
These are recorded
and uploaded to our
website for you to
watch when it’s
convenient
Research and Policy Update
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Monthly digest, available by email and online, that
summarise the latest policy and journal articles
e-bulletin
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Monthly emails that keep you up to date with news and
upcoming events
An example of wraparound support:
working with outcomes
Why is this
important, what
has been effective?
What do we
need to do
strategically
to address
this?
Organisational
and individual
development
Effective
services
What are the latest
approaches and
best practice?
Support for working with outcomes
Strategic
Briefing
Key issues
Practice tool
& customer
guide
Evidence
Informed
Practice
Tailored Support Workshop:
Using an outcomes approach in social care
What would help you make best
use of RiPfA?
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Journal club?
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Topic leads?
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Champions meetings?
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Discussion groups?
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Team meetings – add
a section on EiP?
Sign up to ebulletin
and RPU?
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Signpost to resources
in your L&D
programmes?
Book in reading time?
Talk to your manager
about attendance on
learning events?
Be an ‘evidence
champion’?
Getting started
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Step 1:
Create an account on our website to access our
resources – it takes 2 minutes. Make sure you use
your work email address.
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Step 2:
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Sign up for our e-bulletin and RPU.
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