Merit Review Panel

Merit Review Principles 

 

Research supported with funds from the NCP will have undergone a review by the partner agency that includes positive assessment by nursing and other peers of its scientific merit and capacity of the research team. Reviewers will include scientists who have expertise in bio-ethics, statistics and research methodology.

 

Research supported with funds from the NCP will have undergone a review that includes positive assessment by decision-makers of its potential impact on nursing practice and health services delivery (either through the originating agency and/or through the CNF).

 

CNF strives to streamline the dual review process as much as possible in the interest of enabling partners to make timely funding decisions. To this end, CNF encourages partners to integrate NCP review criteria into their review processes. The NCP Executive Merit Review Panel (NCP panel) reviews the partner’s review panel and process and assesses for gaps. If there are gaps in the partner’s process, CNF may review proposals from the perspective of the gap(s).

 

The NCP panel provides constructive feedback—from the perspective of meeting NCP criteria—to CNF partners on their review processes with the objective of developing stronger, more collaborative review processes that eliminate the need for dual reviews. 

 

Read more about the Merit Review Panel Terms of Reference

Click here to download the Merit Review Panel Assessment Criteria

 

 

Executive Merit Review Panel

 

We invite you to meet and read more about our volunteer who form the core membership of the 2008 Executive Nursing Care Partnership (NCP) Merit Review Panel.  The NCP panel has access to external reviewer expertise as required.

 

	Chair Maryse Pelletier-Hibbert	Maryse has been teaching at University of New Brunswick Faculty of Nursing for a number of years.  She has taught nursing research to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Her research focus is on family members living with individuals with chronic kidney disease and her most recent study centered on husbands living with women on dialysis. She has chaired several committees including the Allied Health Research committee of the National Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Merit Review Panel of Canadian Nurse Foundation.  She is in the process of completing her PhD dissertation from McGill University.
	Member Louise Racine	Louise Racine received a BScN (1994) and a MScN (1996) from Laval University. She has 14 years of clinical experience in med-surgical nursing, oncology, and hematology. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of British Columbia in 2004. She is an Affiliate Researcher at the Prairie Metropolis Centre for Research on Immigration and Integration and an Associate Member at the Centre Canadien de Recherche sur les Francophonies en Milieu Minoritaire at the University of Regina. She has been awarded a SHRF New Investigator Establishment Grant in 2006 to conduct a study on immigrants’ and refugees’ perceptions of health care in Saskatchewan.
	Member Elaine Gallagher	Dr. Elaine Gallagher has an international track record relating to research on falls and injury prevention among older people. Gallagher is best known for her work on a project entitled “STEPS” (Studies of Environments which Promote Safety funded by Health Canada). This was the first published study on the epidemiology of seniors’ slips, trips and falls in public places.   A Professor in the School of Nursing, she holds an adjunct appointment in the Gerontology Program at Simon Fraser University and is the Director of the Center on Aging at U. Vic. In 2002 she was named “Researcher of the Year” by the Canadian Association of Nurse Researchers. In February, 2008, Dr. Gallagher was awarded the “Outstanding Contributions to Society” award by the Simon Fraser University Alumni Association.
	Member Patricia Marck	Dr. Patricia Marck is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Nursing and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta with background in practice, teaching, administration and consulting in health care. Marck is Principal Investigator for the Safer Systems research program [see http://www.nursing.ualberta.ca/SaferSystems/ ] and a Senior Investigator with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario & University of Ottawa Nursing Best Practice Research Unit. Marck holds a joint appointment with the Royal Alexandra Hospital Clinical Research Unit in the Capital Health region where she and her hospital colleagues offer a regular Ethics in Practice Series for practitioners and managers. Marck provides research training for undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and teaches health care ethics, organizational ethics, health care consulting, and professional issues to graduate students in nursing and the health sciences. Currently, Marck and colleagues are working on a three year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2006 – 2009) to develop the use of socio-ecological thinking and photographic research methods in the study of safety issues in modern health systems.
	Member Claire Mallette	Dr. Claire Mallette is presently the Director of Nursing Education, Placement and Development at University Health Network in Toronto. Her portfolio focuses on fostering lifelong learning through leading and developing professional development initiatives and opportunities for nursing staff and students across the learning continuum. Her career is diverse with roles in administration, academia, research and clinical practice. Her areas of expertise are in administration and professional issues related to recruitment, retention, change, employment relationships, and nursing education. She has her undergraduate nursing degree from McGill University, and her Masters and PhD in Nursing from the University of Toronto.    She has adjunct appointments at York University and University of Toronto and has had the opportunity to practice and teach nursing in Quebec, Alberta and Ontario.