Resilience Research Centre

Wound Care Pilot (how2trak®)

Nova Scotia’s Wound Care Pilot was a program that ran between June 22, 2018 to August 21, 2019, developed in partnership with the Department of Health and Wellness (DHW), the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), the Victoria Order of Nurses (VON), and Health Outcomes Worldwide (HOW). The pilot examined the effectiveness of incorporating the how2trak® app, which was developed by HOW, into the home wound care practice of VON in the rural setting of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The Goals of the pilot were to improve tracking measures and wound healing outcomes through the addition of tracking tools and best-practice recommendations for nurses, to enhance collaboration among service providers, and to provide senior staff with the opportunity to produce data-driven reports so as to improve wound care service efficiency and effectiveness.

The Resilience Research Centre (RRC) conducted an evaluation of the pilot to assesses the implementation, processes, and outcomes of incorporating how2trak® in VON’s wound care practice. A comparator group was incorporated into the evaluation design, and was based in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Using a mixed-methods approach, the evaluation examined the following key evaluation questions: How and to what extent has the pilot been implemented? How and to what extent have pilot activities been integrated into practice? How and to what extent has the pilot contributed to improved wound healing and health system efficiencies within the pilot? 

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Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice (2021)

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element, transitional justice has not been explicitly theorised as a process for building resilience in communities and societies that have suffered large-scale violence and human rights violations. The chapters in this unique volume theoretically and empirically explore the concept of resilience in diverse societies that have experienced mass violence and human rights abuses. They analyse the extent to which transitional justice processes have – and can – contribute to resilience and how, in so doing, they can foster adaptive peacebuilding. This book is available as Open Access.

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