ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) Toolkit

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As a community that focuses on the needs of young cardiovascular nurses and allied professionals, the ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) has developed the YoCo Toolkit, an online platform where you can find different resources and tools that address several research-related topics within the cardiovascular field, to support the young members of ACNAP and the ESC in their career development.

ACNAP YoCo Toolkit

Listen to our Young members who are contributing to developping the YoCo Toolkit

About the toolkit

The ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) was created in 2019 to support the needs of the young community of nurses and allied professionals by transferring knowledge and expertise within ACNAP and the ESC, and by helping them within the cardiovascular field, whether in a clinical, educational or research setting.

In response to members' feedback, the Committee launched the 'YoCo Toolkit' initiative in 2023, an online platform providing resources on research methods, career development, and evidence-based practice.The toolkit is regularly updated by the ACNAP YoCo Committee members and YoCo National Contacts. Hear their insights and explore the latest resources below!

Aim

The toolkit serves as a valuable resource tailored for nurses and allied professionals entering the cardiovascular field. The purpose of the toolkit is to:

Gather key scientific content for use in research, education, clinical practice and career development.
Organise content around key topics identified by our Young Community.
Consolidate information into a comprehensive, all-in-one resource, making the toolkit unique.
Be in constant evolution as it is updated on a regular basis, making it a handy evidence-based practice guide.

How to use it

Click on the blocks below and you will be redirected to a list of contents (articles, slides, videos etc...), focused on each particular topic. Most resources are sourced from our ESC 365 platform and from the ESC Journals Family. You must be a member to access certain content.

Questions

Do you have a question regarding the toolkit? Would you like to see other content or share an idea with us? Contact us at acnap@escardio.org.

Methods

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Challenges and strategies for effective recruitment and retention of participants in clinical research studies

3 Jan 2025 - 01:00

ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) Toolkit

ACNAP YoCo Toolkit

About the toolkit

Aim

How to use it

Questions

Methods

Challenges and strategies for effective recruitment and retention of participants in clinical research studies

Experienced-based co-design for cardiovascular and chronic disease research

Celebrating a quinquennium of the EJCN Methods Corner

Anonymize or synthesize? Privacy-preserving methods for heart failure score analytics

Interviewing people on sensitive topics: challenges and strategies

Exploring the full potential of the electronic health record: the application of natural language processing for clinical practice

A practical guide to living evidence: reducing the knowledge-to-practice gap

Strategies for improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in cardiovascular research: a primer

Measuring up: the significance of measurement invariance in cardiovascular research

Hitting the (bio)mark part 1: selecting and measuring biomarkers in cardiovascular research

Hitting the (bio)mark Part 2: analysing, interpreting, and reporting biomarker data in cardiovascular research

Patient journey mapping: emerging methods for understanding and improving patient experiences of health systems and services

Spatial methods for measuring access to health care

‘Snapshot’ cohort study design across multi-site research settings: challenges, strategies, and solutions

New frontiers for qualitative textual data analysis: a multimethod statistical approach

Justification, rationale and methodological approaches to realist reviews

Designing and conducting qualitative research across countries and cultures: challenges for inclusiveness and rigour

Now you see it! Using wearable cameras to gain insights into the lived experience of cardiovascular conditions<sup> </sup>

User Experience (UX) Design as a co-design methodology: lessons learned during the development of a web-based portal for cardiac rehabilitation

Can you picture it? Photo elicitation in qualitative cardiovascular health research

Rapid reviews: the pros and cons of an accelerated review process

When face-to-face interviews are not possible: tips and tricks for video, telephone, online chat, and email interviews in qualitative research

Grounded theory: what makes a grounded theory study?

Using mixed methods in cardiovascular nursing research: Answering the why, the how, and the what’s next

A guide to improve your causal inferences from observational data

Meta-analysis: How to quantify and explain heterogeneity?

Process evaluation of complex cardiovascular interventions: How to interpret the results of my trial?

Chronic illness as a ‘family disease’: The need for appropriate scientific methods for dyadic research

Research methods: Time to get excited!

Flash mob studies: a novel method to accelerate the research process

Propensity weighting: how to minimise comparative bias in non-randomised studies?

Inconsistent measurement of acute coronary syndrome patients’ pre-hospital delay in research: A review of the literature

Overcoming the challenges of conducting research with people who have advanced heart failure and palliative care needs

Data Collection

Interviewing people on sensitive topics: challenges and strategies

A guide to navigating administrative data linkage for research

Solutions to address low response rates in online surveys

The science of clinical quality registries

Are digital citizen panels an innovative, deliberative approach to cardiovascular research?

Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap): tackling data collection, management, storage, and privacy challenges

Data: the new gold.

Data Analysis

New frontiers for qualitative textual data analysis: a multimethod statistical approach

Survival analysis 101: an easy start guide to analysing time-to-event data

Using item response theory to develop and refine patient-reported outcome measures

The role of generalized linear models in handling cost and count data

A guide to improve your causal inferences from observational data

Identifying subgroups: Part 2: Trajectories of change over time

Identifying subgroups: Part 1: Patterns among cross-sectional data

Understanding the family care dyad: A comparison of two multilevel models

Publication

Open Access publishing: benefits and challenges

Rapid, accurate publication and dissemination of clinical trial results: benefits and challenges

Abstract Submission Tips & Tricks

Guidance on communication skills for GPs and primary care specialists

How to get your research abstract/ clinical case accepted?

How to achieve an excellent power point presentation?

How to write a successful manuscript?

EJPC: 5 key reasons to submit your publications.

Career Growth

Interviewing people on sensitive topics: challenges and strategies

How to conduct clinical research in cardiovascular imaging: a primer for clinical cardiologists and researchers—a statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC

From networking to knowledge sharing: cracking the code of scientific conferences

The Core Curriculum for Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professionals

Questionable research practices, careerism, and advocacy: why we must prioritize research quality over its quantity, impact, reach, and results

Learning from experiences: tips for PhD students

ESC Nursing and Allied Professional Training grants: 10 top tips for enhancing funding success!

Future-proofing your research career post-PhD: top tips for doctoral students

The X-factors of PhD supervision: ACNAP top 10 tips on choosing a PhD supervisor

A Core Curriculum for the Continuing Professional Development of Nurses Working in Cardiovascular Settings: Developed by the Education Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP) on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology

A core curriculum for the continuing professional development of nurses: Developed by the Education Committee on behalf of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions of the ESC

Research Partnerships and Collaboration in Cardiovascular Nursing

Keeping Cardiac Nurses on the Job