The 5th US-Russian Conference Cruise invited Russian participants to identify projects they desired to implement to promote improvements in nursing and/or health care delivery in their work settings. There are 2 Russians working jointly on one project, resulting in 8 proposals being submitted by the 9 Russian participants eligible to submit a proposal. As noted on the map of Russia, Russians participating in the 2005 Conference Cruise came from major cities of St Petersburg and Moscow and small towns such as Sergiev Possad, Yaroslavl (a stop for a visit by the cruise boat), Syrazh in the south and Archangelsk in the far north of Russia. Thus, the projects being undertaken by these participants are being done throughout Russia and we hope they will begin to have an impact on patients, families and nurses in these multiple sites.
We were pleased to find a variety of sponsors to fund these projects which are to be implemented between December 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006. The person responsible for each project will submit a report of accomplishments on/by June 30, 2006. We eagerly await these reports to learn about accomplishments of these post conference projects.
2005 Project Descriptions
The eight projects being undertaken by Russians After the 2005 Conference consist of the following:
Yuri Bessonov, Independent Researcher
Pilot project for social rehabilitation of spinal cord injured patients through use of internet connection to various resources, including support groups. Possible Long Term Goal: set up a network of disabled Russians to support each other through distance education and electronic communication
Sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International Nu Iota Chapter at University of Nevada, Reno
Marina Boykova, Children’s Hospital #1
Pretest research instruments, explore qualitative interview techniques and learn thematic analysis to implement a nursing research study of parental needs and concerns at preterm infant discharge from a neonatal intensive care unit
Sponsored by University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
Olga Egorova, Leningrad Regional Clinical Hospital
Decrease the number of patients who incur pressure ulcers (PU’s) in one regional medical center in St Petersburg through the development and use of patient/family/staff education materials, i.e., brochures and wall posters
Sponsored by Cheryl Rowder, PhD, RN, CCRC, a Clinical Research Director from Texas. In-kind support from Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
Svetlana Korotkova, Leningrad Regional Clinical Hospital Improve patient education for older diabetic patients at a regional diabetic “school” in St Petersburg through use of TV, VCR, and overhead projector for diabetic classes
Sponsored by Individual Donor in collaboration with Dobra, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon. Sharon Ostwald, PhD, RN, University of Texas, Houston provided resource materials to use for diabetic teaching
Olga Morozova, Yaroslavl Community Hospice Develop informational postcards about Yaroslavl Community Hospice using children’s artwork to increase awareness of cancer patients’ end of life care needs and for community to purchase postcards and increase donations to this hospice
Sponsored by Dobra, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon
Irina Ostrovskaya, Sergiev Posad Medical School & Raisa Grosheva, Health Care Administrative Department of
Arkhangelsk Region
Initiate task force of RNA members to develop a definition of nursing for Russian nurses to be more
appropriate to current and desired development of nursing in Russia
Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing
Alexandra Stupak, Suraz Central Hospital Create a more normal and less stressful environment for children hospitalized in a
general hospital pediatric unit through use of TV and DVD resources
Sponsored by Larry Plant, APRN, PMH-NP, BC, Director of Behavioral Services at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford Maine, part time faculty at St Joseph College in Standish Maine and Practicing Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Brunswick, Maine
Natalia Tsvetkova, Bakulev’s State Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery
Improve parental education about availability
of children’s cardiac services for children needing treatment for congenital cardiac problems by a federally supported cardiac center
in Moscow
Sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International Beta Delta Chapter at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing; Rachel DiFazio, RN, MSN, Nurse Practitioner, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, provided teaching resource materials
2005 Project Summary
These Projects involve:
- Improving patient teaching materials (Egorova, Korotkova and Tsvetkova Projects)
- Using a strategy to engage a community to support a hospice (Morozova Project)
- Using nurse task forces to revise and further develop a more current and desirable definition of nursing for Russian
nurses (Ostrovskaya/Grosheva Project)
These projects reflect varied interests and ways of contributing to improving Russian nursing and health care.
Highlights of individual projects include:
Work with Russian Nurses’ Association to revise a definition of nursing (Ostrovskaya/Grosheva Project)
Russian patient populations served by these projects include:
- Parents of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (Boykova Project)
- Children (and their parents) who could benefit from heart surgery (Tsvetkova Project)
- Hospitalized children (Stupak Project)
- Diabetics (Korotkova Project)
- Medical surgical patients at risk for development of pressure ulcers (Egorova Project)
- Spinal cord injury patient (Bessonov Project)
- Hospice patients (Morozova Project)
Projects Are Being Undertaken in:
- Bakulev’s State Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow (Tsvetkova Project)
- Children’s Hospital #1 in St Petersburg (Boykova Project)
- Leningrad Regional Clinical Hospital in St Petersburg (Egorova and Korotkova Projects)
- Russian Nurses’ Association in St Petersburg (Ostrovskaya/Grosheva Project)
- Suraz Central Hospital, Syrazh, Bransk Region (Stupak Project)
- Vyborg, Russia (Bessonov Project)
- Yaroslavl Community Hospice in Yaroslavl (Morozova Project)
Project Sponsors/Funders/Resource Material Contributors
As of November 26, 2005, all eight of the Russian post conference projects have been funded.
The sources of funding and contribution of resource materials also reflect diverse interests and commitments
as project funding and other support has come from:
- Individual Donations
- Schools of Nursing
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing
- University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
- Sigma Theta Tau International Chapters
- Beta Delta Chapter at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
- Nu Iota Chapter at University of Nevada, Reno
- A nonprofit organization (Dobra, Inc in Portland, Oregon)
- Resource Sharing by:
- Rachel DiFazio, RN, MSN, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,
(Teaching materials for children)
- Sharon Ostwald, PhD, RN, University of Texas, Houston (Diabetic teaching materials)
- Providence Portland Medical Center (Pressure ulcer identification materials)
We all eagerly look forward to learning the results of these projects and will share project results on
this website sometime during the Fall of 2006.
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