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Special Sessions Special Sessions
HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2018

SS4.1 Translational Nursing and Its Applications 09:00 Theatre 2

Expanding Nursing Research within Clinical Practice Settings: Partnerships between Universities and Hospitals
to Improve Health
Saewyc EM
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada

University-based nursing researchers have often faced challenges in conducting clinically-based research with hospitals, in
part because the demands for teaching and research take faculty away from regular practice within clinical settings. Similarly,
nurses within hospital settings may struggle to conduct nursing practice-focused research, because they have expert clinical
skills and important practice-based research questions, but may lack enough expertise in advanced research methods
to be able to conduct clinically relevant research, or they do not have enough time in their role to dedicate to research. As
well, nursing leaders in some clinical settings do not promote the importance of engaging in research for improving nursing
practice, or administrative budgets do not support the staff in contributing to research. There is a growing call to address
these barriers by promoting the development of clinician scientists, as skilled researchers embedded within clinical practice.
But how do universities and clinical settings work together to achieve such roles, and promote nursing research involvement
at all levels of healthcare within the clinical setting?

This presentation will describe several different strategies in Western Canada that have been used to foster an increase
in nursing research capacity within hospital and community clinical settings, in partnerships with the University of British
Columbia School of Nursing and different health authorities in British Columbia, Canada. These include: the development
of a clinical “research challenge” approach that partners university researcher mentors, staff nurses and other health
professionals in conducting small grant-funded research projects and pilots; creation of a clinician scientist university
appointment track; and joint funding for clinically-focused nursing research professorships.

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