Description
The Veteran's Administration (VA) Office of Research and Development, Regional Procurement Office East, intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Janelle Sue Taylor, PhD, for specialized ethnographic research support services. The services will be provided to the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and will focus on ethnographic methodological expertise for a research study titled "CONSERVE-CKM: Study on Care of Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease." The contractor will provide research assistance, including content and methodological expertise in ethnographic research methods, health systems implementation, and advanced kidney disease. The contractor will work under the supervision of the VA Principal Investigator (PI) and will collaborate with the PI and the research team to complete tasks such as guidance and training for qualitative interviews, clinical field observations, and artifact collection and review. The contractor will also provide guidance on data management and analytical plans and will assist with the presentation of findings.
* The contractor will provide content expertise on training of interviewers and development of interview guides for qualitative interviews.
* The contractor will provide input and ethnographic content expertise on training of project staff in field observations and approaches to field observations of care interactions between Veterans, caregivers, and clinicians.
* The contractor will provide guidance on strategy for artifact collection and review of artifacts shared by patients that reflect their experience of kidney disease and care.
* The contractor will guide the project team on organizing and preparing collected data for analysis and will train staff to manage and analyze primary data collected.
* The contractor will assist with the presentation of findings and can co-author manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications.