ARNET Research Grants
ARNET Research Grants
ARNET Belairdirect Research Grant Recipient 2024
Comfort-Holding in Critically Ill Kids (CHiCKs): Patient and caregiver focus groups
Principal Investigator: Laurie Lee, NP, MN, PhD Candidate
Laurie is a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Nurse Practitioner, Clinician Researcher, and Director of the PICU Research Program at Alberta Children's Hospital. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Adjunct Clinical Associate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary.
Laurie has over 20 years of bedside practice as either a Registered Nurse or Nurse Practitioner and has practiced in Edmonton, San Francisco, Bermuda, the United Kingdom and Calgary where she has been for the last 15 years.
As Director of the ACH PICU Research program, Laurie is the first Nurse to lead a PICU research program in Canada. She acts as the local principal investigator for many national and international studies and mentors PICU staff, physicians and trainees in the conduct of both quality improvement evaluation and research.
Laurie is the lead of the Comfort Holding in Critically Ill Kids (CHiCKS) program of research which aims to study the benefits of comfort-holding for children admitted to the PICU.
Ashley Watson and Anna Pujadas Botey: Advancing Knowledge for Improved Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer in Alberta
Findings of this study will inform the development of a pathway to streamline the diagnosis of colorectal cancer in Alberta and inform a provincial strategy that supports facilitated cancer diagnosis.
Our First Nursing Research Grant Recipient
Our first recipient of the research grant is Dr. Carmel Montgomery PhD, MN, RN. Carmel is an early career researcher and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta.