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¶ … Nursing Research Benefits Our Nursing Practice
One of the most critical strategic challenges currently facing hospitals now and for the foreseeable future is the national nursing shortage. (Corning, 2002). The current nursing shortage is causing great concern and is expected to peak between the years 2010, and 2015 (Woods, & Cardin, 2002). According to Woods and Cardin 2002, "Unlike prior shortages, this one is not cyclical in nature and the solutions will require different and innovative approaches to avert a national public health crisis" (p.326). A great deal of attention has been paid to the root causes of the current and future nursing shortage; aging baby boomers, alternative professional opportunities for women (Woods, & Cardin, 2002), intense assignments, extra shifts, burn out, and little job satisfaction (Inglis, 2004). In order to fully appreciate this situation one must understand that the nursing shortage is, in part, also related to the trend toward greater specialization within the profession of nursing. The purpose of this paper is two-fold; (1) to demonstrate that clinical research nursing has evolved into a specialty in its own right, and (2) to provide a strategic plan for ensuring the retention and future development of research nurses as leaders.
There are a variety of roles that nurses perform in support of clinical trials with the most three common...
The research nurse possesses the same innate basic nursing characteristics as all nurses such as; a desire to help other people; and demonstrate a caring spirit. However, additionally, a research nurse must also have core competencies skills in order to perform the role safely and effectively and have a sound knowledge base of federal, state, and institutional regulations, policies and procedures, a high level of autonomy. In addition, being able to set daily priorities, possess exceptional organizational skills, possesses enhanced psychological assessment skills, meticulous attention to details are essential as well and there must be honed critical thinking skills. A research nurse may function as a direct care provider, coordinator of care, educator, patient advocate, and data manager or may fulfill many of these roles simultaneously. Although, the research nurse must wear many hats and perform a wide range of duties and responsibilities that can vary from trial to trial, the level of core competencies skills are the same (Grofsik, & Sauers, 1997). The research nurse is involved in the daily "hands-on" tasks of conducting the research for a physician, while the physician's role is the principal investigator, who is ultimately responsible for overseeing the management of the study at site…
The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists - The NACNS was founded in 1995, specifically to enhance and promote the unique and high-value contributions that clinical nurses make to the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities in their particular branch of healthcare. They also have a foundation, scholarship programs, a journal and discussion portal, various levels of conferences, scholarship programs, honors and awards, and the ability for
Translational Research Emphasis for the last thirty years has been on shifting nursing curricula out of hospitals to universities. The education of nurses is now increasingly leaning towards theory. This has led to an obvious gap between what is experienced in the practical healthcare settings by nurses and what is taught in lecture halls (Saifan, AbuRuz, & Masa'deh, 2015). Nursing practice is just one of the areas of healthcare that is experiencing
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the method of gathering, handling, and applying research results to enhance medical practice, the work atmosphere, or patient results. Based on the American Nurses Association or ANA, medical treatments ought to be functional, systematic decisions centered on EBP scientific studies. Making use of the EBP method of medical practice can help to deliver the very best quality and most price-effective patient treatment conceivable. This document is
Community Nursing Practice Model For a long time, community nursing has been an issue of major concern to most health care sectors. Values are based on the model for providing grounding for the nursing practice. The transcendent values include caring, wholeness, and respect while explicating for the actualization of values for primary health care based on access, empowerment, essentiality, collaboration, community participation and inter-sectoral. The provision for framework in terms of
Nursing is a tough profession to perform well. There are constant innovations and changes in healthcare that make research and education a top priority among nurses to achieve the goal of providing high quality care. Evidence-based practice offers nurses a way to use the research continuously developed to create strategies and techniques that better suit the needs of patients. However, it is a daunting task that many nurses have not
Nursing Handoff Communication Research Nursing handoffs are important components in the modern health care setting given their role in transfer of the responsibility and authority of care from one practitioner to another during shifts. Generally, nurses work in different shifts when providing patient care in order to reduce their work burdens and potential stressful moments. Therefore, nursing handoffs help ensure continuity of care during a patient's stay in the health care