Nursing Policy Research

Turning Evidence-Based Research into Health Policy

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2008
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-3333-5 (ISBN)

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Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.

[O]ffers excellent examples of nurses in action - effectively marrying research evidence and theories of policy influence to achieve policy change. . . .Only when we get the right policy research messages to the right policy makers will there be a real research-policy connection. Hats off to Nursing Policy Research authors, contributors and publisher (Springer Publishing Company) for helping move us forward."

--Judith A. Oulton
Oulton, Oulton & Associates
Specialist in nursing and health policy and development

Nurse leaders, researchers, and evaluators face a vital problem in the profession: how to successfully translate evidence-based research into health policy.

In this book, seasoned researchers share their knowledge, skills, and expertise on the most important aspects of the research enterprise and its connection to policy implementation.
Readers will learn how to:

Identify the relevant health care issues that policy makers are concerned with
Collect and manage data that will influence policy discussion
Translate statistical significance into policy at the institutional, state, and federal levels
Secure appropriate funding for research on issues in nursing education, the workforce crisis, and more
Determine how Congressional processes affect federal funding and budgeting

Dickson and Flynn provide the necessary tools to turn evidence-based research into health policy. With these tools, researchers will not only improve their capacity to influence policy decisions, but will take part in the advancement of the profession at large."

Geri L. Dickson, PhD, RN, is founder and Executive Director of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing affiliated with the Rutgers University College of Nursing. Linda Flynn, PhD, RN, is currently the Director of Research of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing, Rutgers College of Nursing, where she also serves as Assistant Professor. She has taught courses in research and policy to masters and doctoral students for many years.

Contributors

Foreword by Linda Aiken

Preface by Geri L. Dickson and Linda Flynn

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Section I: Discovering the Research-to-Policy Connection

Back to the Future: From Evidence to Policy, Geri L. Dickson

Nursing Outcomes Research: Connections to Workforce Issues and Policy
Decisions, Sean P. Clarke

Lessons Learned, Geri L. Dickson

Section II: Toward Evidence-Based Policy: Collecting and Managing the Data

Introduction, Geri L. Dickson

Addressing the Complexities of Survey Research, Patricia Moulton, Linda M. Lacey, Linda Flynn, Christine Tassone Kovner and Carol S. Brewer

Forecasting a State Supply and Demand of RNs Using the Revised 2005 HRSA Models, Lynn Unruh and Valerie Danesh

Missing Data Effects on Nurse Workforce Analysis and Projections, Jennifer G. Nooney

Lessons Learned, Linda Flynn

Section III: Research and Workplace Policy

Introduction, Geri L. Dickson

Work Satisfaction among Staff Nurses in Acute Care Hospitals, Carol S. Brewer and Christine Tassone Kovner

Workload, Quality of Care, and Job Satisfaction in Home Health Nurses, Linda Flynn

The Emotional Demands of Nursing, Rebecca J. Erickson

Lessons Learned, Geri L. Dickson

Section IV: Research and Educational Policy

Introduction, Geri L. Dickson

Nursing's Long-Term Pipeline: A Study of High Schools Student Using a Unique Data Collection Approach,
Rebecca Rudel and Patricia Moulton

The Looming Crisis of an Inadequate Pipeline for Nursing Faculty, Brenda Cleary, James W. Bevill, Jr., Linda Lacey, and Jennifer G. Nooney

Clinical Simulation and the Need for Evidence-Based Policy, Felissa R. Lashley and Wendy Nehring

Lessons Learned, Geri L. Dickson

Section V: Funding the Research-to-Policy Connection

Introduction, Linda Flynn

Of Horses & Ponies: Taking Your Show to Washington, Claudia L. McDonald

AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Nurse Researchers, Kathleen Kendrick, Gail S. Makulowich, and Mary L. Grady

From Issues to Action: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Influences
Health Policy, Lori Melichar and Susan B. Hassmiller

A Metaphor for Addressing the Nurse Shortage in Oregon, Judith L. Woodruff

Lesson Learned, Linda Flynn

Section VI: Making the Research-to-Policy Connection

Introduction, Linda Flynn

Policy Development and Nursing, Lucille A. Joel

State Funding for Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment: The Vermont Experience, Mary Val Palumbo

Using Research to Influence Federal Policy: The Nephrology Nurses' Experience, Linda Flynn, Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, and Sandra M. Bodin

Lessons Learned, Linda Flynn

Epilogue

From Research to Policy - The Ultimate Translation, Linda Flynn and Geri L. Dickson

Index

Zusatzinfo	15 illustrations; 15 Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
ISBN-10	0-8261-3333-9 / 0826133339
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-3333-5 / 9780826133335
Zustand	Neuware