Search PubMed⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 2761640

Collaboration by consortium.

K K Schutzenhofer·P Potter
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Recognizing that collaboration is essential for the continuing development of the nursing profession, nursing leaders in the St. Louis area organized the Nursing Consortium for Research in Practice, uniting four university schools of nursing and four large hospitals. The aim of consortium is to assist nursing faculty and nursing service personnel in the conduct of collaborative clinical research. The consortium also seeks to educate nurses about research as a component of professional nursing practice and to assist them in implementing research findings in clinical practice. The efforts of the consortium during its first four years are discussed.

Explore related subjects

Clinical Nursing ResearchFaculty, NursingHospitals, UrbanHumansInterinstitutional RelationsMissouriNursing ResearchNursing Service, HospitalSchools, NursingJournal Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

K K Schutzenhofer, P Potter. 1989. Collaboration by consortium.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2761640/

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed2004

Salivary cortisol as indicators of pain in preterm infants: a pilot study.

Assessment and management of pain in preterm infants is critical and complicated. The addition of salivary cortisol measurement may improve the specificity of assessment and guide care to alleviate pain. The purpose of this study was fourfold: (a) assess the feasibility of a method of saliva collection in premature infants, (b) assess reliability of a method of measuring salivary cortisol in response to heelstick, (c) identify relationships between salivary cortisol and a measure of pain behavior (using CRIES) following heelstick, and (d) identify peak response times for elevations of salivary cortisol following heelstick in preterm infants. This was a prospective, descriptive pilot study. Serial saliva samples were collected from eight healthy infants 30 to 36 weeks' gestational age in a Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Cortisol levels were determined using enzyme-immune assay. Samples were collected without use of stimulants. Sample means supported peak and trough patterns previously described in the literature. Behavioral measures of pain did not correlate well with peak cortisol levels.

Clinical Nursing Research↗
PubMed2003

Ethological methods to develop nursing knowledge.

Researchers from various fields use ethological methods to systematically observe, describe, and measure animal and human nonverbal behavior. The purpose of this article is to argue that their application in nursing will benefit development of descriptive-level knowledge about complex behavioral phenomena. To advance the argument for applying these methods in nursing, we examine the compatibility of the philosophical assumptions underlying ethology with nursing, assess if ethology can help nursing achieve some of its aims, and determine the benefits of using ethology when observation of a phenomenon is required. Neonatal pain is used to illustrate how ethology can be used to develop descriptive-level nursing knowledge and midrange theory.

Clinical Nursing Research↗
PubMed2003

An alternative paradigm for clinical nursing research: an exemplar.

Effectiveness research is undertaken to evaluate the effects of interventions in achieving desired outcomes when tested in the real-world conditions of everyday practice. Although the randomized clinical trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard for effectiveness research, its feasibility, generalizability, and the clinical utility of its results are being questioned. This state of the science prompted the call for a paradigm shift, characterized by alternative methods for clinical research. The alternative methods attempt to account for clinical realities when conducting research, with the goal of minimizing discrepancies in the perspective and assumptions underlying practice and research. In this article a theory-driven approach to intervention evaluation is presented as a viable alternative paradigm for clinical research. The application of this approach demands changes in four aspects of research: participant selection criteria, assignment to treatment options, delivery of the intervention, and selection of outcome measures. The changes are discussed at the conceptual level and illustrated with examples from an ongoing multisite study aimed at determining the usefulness of this theory-driven approach to intervention evaluation.

Clinical Nursing Research↗