1. Base Camp to Summit: A collaborative approach to building skills and providing support in the area of evidence based practice
Diana Blackwood and Jayanthi Joseph
Health Sciences Team - Curtin Library
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2. What was at base camp?

3. Gearing up…
A team approach

4. The unwitting new recruit…

5. The uphill journey…
Boot camp
for novices

6. Getting a grip ….. Do you get the Haynes I give up with these S’s!
5S and 6S models?
I give up with these S’s!

7. Health team “Journal Club”
More training

8. Research into practice Our LibGuides
Allied Health Honours Research Design
Systematic Reviews
Evidence Based Practice

9. Systematic Reviews LibGuide
2014: 3163
2013: 1307

10. Getting down to it…
Searching the literature for evidence – Western Australian Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery (WACEBN) in 2010
Increasing your skills in searching the literature for evidence – jointly prepared but individually presented in 2012 for WACEBN
Workshops for Faculty postgraduates and academic staff on how to search the literature for systematic reviews

11. Uphill journey continues…
Being “egged on” to hop to their next challenge

12. Meeting of the Minds
We partnered with a systematic review team of researchers and their Australian collaborators in the Autism Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) in the creation of a robust search strategy

13. Collaboration With academics
We learned about useful resources and tips from academics who were involved in conducting systematic reviews

14. Collaboration With colleagues
We collaborated with Perth based health librarians in the organisation of a research workshop called Searching Systematically: best practice in librarian support for systematic reviews at which we presented a paper on Searching the Literature when Undertaking a Systematic Review

15. Continuing our journey…
Qualitative Research
Run the ‘Searching the Literature When Undertaking a Systematic Review’ workshop again but this time utilising a more hands on approach
Team with EBP experts to run joint session on SRs
Investigate PRESS methodology for checking search strategies

16. A new summit

17. Getting there…
Recognition and satisfaction!

18. What we have learned…

19. Credits