| Learning Objective #1: Understand the diverse nursing roles and partnerships linking practice and scholarship in a federally-funded research project | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Understand the process of recruiting, training, and developing the research role of the ambulatory staff nurse |
The presentation will describe diverse nursing roles and partnerships linking practice and scholarship for a federally funded grant: "Efficacy of Nurse Coaching to Aid Ambulatory Surgery Patients,"(#1 R15 NR05174-01A1) principal investigator, Dorothy Jones. The presenters formed a research team including faculty of a college of nursing, graduate student research assistants and nursing staff of an ambulatory surgery unit in a major teaching hospital. The presentation will discuss the formation and implementation of a clinical nursing research project that involves collaboration between nursing faculty, students and ambulatory surgery nursing staff. Faculty co-investigators form the research team, orient the team at the site and conduct practice sessions of nurse coaching. The faculty monitors a process for data transfer and reliability. The faculty also check consistency of telephone coaching. Faculty co-investigators meet with the research team on site and act as trouble- shooters for any difficulties encountered. An onsite clinical researcher who is a member of the hospital nursing staff works with the faculty co-investigators and supervises nurse coaching intervention and data collection. The on-site clinical researcher alerts the principal investigator and faculty co-investigators of any problems. The nurse coaches enter subjects into the study, collect initial research data and provide nurse -coaching interventions by telephone. They also attend research team meetings. The graduate student research assistants participate in data collection for the control group and quality control checks for the intervention groups. Other responsibilities include entering data and preparing reports. This collaboration combines the research expertise of the nursing faculty and the clinical expertise of the ambulatory surgery nurse to promote clinical nursing research. This will ultimately enhance nursing care of the ambulatory surgical patient.
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