Abstract
Session D presented Thursday, September 27, 2:30-3:30 pm
Purpose: As the role of nursing grows in healthcare, the engagement of bedside nurses in evidence based practice (EBP) and clinical research is becoming the rule and no longer the exception. Clinically practicing nurses are in a unique position to inform scholarly projects and implement them into practice. However, nurses face barriers to engagement in scholarship including lack of time, knowledge, and institutionalized leadership support. The purpose of this project was to increase the output of scholarly work among ED bedside nurses though the formalization of nursing inquiry support via designated nursing inquiry project coordinators.
Design: A staff development project was implemented to increase scholarly output among nurses in an adult emergency department (ED). Setting: The project took place in an adult ED in an urban academic center with approximately 100 full time nurses. The department has established collaborations with the affiliate Schools of Nursing and Medicine, including the Department of Emergency Medicine Research.
Participants/Subjects: Two nurses, one full-time ED nurse, and one full-time School of Nursing faculty were given protected time to devote to scholarly activities in the department (8 hours and 4 hours respectively). All nurses in the department were invited to utilize these dedicated nursing inquiry resources.
Methods: In August of 2015, we designated 2 nurses to devote a portion of their weekly work to the cultivation of nursing scholarly activities in the department. By establishing a Nursing Inquiry Coordinator and a Clinical Research Liaison, leadership formalized their support for nursing inquiry and created resources for frontline staff to participate in nursing scholarship. The Inquiry Nurses were available during office hours, via email and real-time in the clinical setting. Outcomes include number of abstracts accepted to departmental, local, state, national and international conferences for podium or poster presentations, grants submitted and awarded, institutional review board submissions, manuscript and book chapter publications, and workshop instruction. Nurse-led projects included multidisciplinary collaboration with physicians, nursing assistants, financial analysts, and medical engineers.
Results/Outcomes: Since January 1, 2016 nursing inquiry activities greatly increased. Scholarly output for the department includes; 5 departmental podium presentations, 25 hospital-level poster and podium presentations, 6 state conference poster presentations, 17 national conference podium and poster presentations, 10 international conference poster and podium presentations, 5 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 1 book chapter, 1 published abstract, 5 grant submissions, and 3 workshop presentations. These numbers including many frontline staff members who had not previously participated were first-time presenters and authors. Prior to these formalized resources scholarly output was not rigorously tracked, but was primarily limited to those in leadership positions.
Implications: The dedication and formalization of a small amount of support for nursing inquiry dramatically increased our department's scholarly output. Nurses are a fundamental component of patient care and therefore must be the biggest advocates for advancing the science of nursing. The creation of dedicated nursing part-time inquiry roles can address the barriers that bedside nurses face including time, knowledge and leadership support deficits. This development project provides a tangible solution to the mandate that nurses become leaders in the advancement of high quality patient care.
Sigma Membership
Non-member
Lead Author Affiliation
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Type
Poster
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
N/A
Research Approach
N/A
Keywords:
Staff Development, Nursing Scholarship, Clinically Practicing Nurses
Recommended Citation
Whalen, Madeleine; Maliszewski, Barbara; Patch, Michelle; Lindauer, Cathleen; and Baptiste, Diana Lyn, "Increasing nursing scholarship through dedicated human resources" (2019). General Submissions: Presenations (Oral and Poster). 127.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/gen_sub_presentations/2018/posters/127
Conference Name
Emergency Nursing 2018
Conference Host
Emergency Nurses Association
Conference Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Conference Year
2018
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Increasing nursing scholarship through dedicated human resources
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Session D presented Thursday, September 27, 2:30-3:30 pm
Purpose: As the role of nursing grows in healthcare, the engagement of bedside nurses in evidence based practice (EBP) and clinical research is becoming the rule and no longer the exception. Clinically practicing nurses are in a unique position to inform scholarly projects and implement them into practice. However, nurses face barriers to engagement in scholarship including lack of time, knowledge, and institutionalized leadership support. The purpose of this project was to increase the output of scholarly work among ED bedside nurses though the formalization of nursing inquiry support via designated nursing inquiry project coordinators.
Design: A staff development project was implemented to increase scholarly output among nurses in an adult emergency department (ED). Setting: The project took place in an adult ED in an urban academic center with approximately 100 full time nurses. The department has established collaborations with the affiliate Schools of Nursing and Medicine, including the Department of Emergency Medicine Research.
Participants/Subjects: Two nurses, one full-time ED nurse, and one full-time School of Nursing faculty were given protected time to devote to scholarly activities in the department (8 hours and 4 hours respectively). All nurses in the department were invited to utilize these dedicated nursing inquiry resources.
Methods: In August of 2015, we designated 2 nurses to devote a portion of their weekly work to the cultivation of nursing scholarly activities in the department. By establishing a Nursing Inquiry Coordinator and a Clinical Research Liaison, leadership formalized their support for nursing inquiry and created resources for frontline staff to participate in nursing scholarship. The Inquiry Nurses were available during office hours, via email and real-time in the clinical setting. Outcomes include number of abstracts accepted to departmental, local, state, national and international conferences for podium or poster presentations, grants submitted and awarded, institutional review board submissions, manuscript and book chapter publications, and workshop instruction. Nurse-led projects included multidisciplinary collaboration with physicians, nursing assistants, financial analysts, and medical engineers.
Results/Outcomes: Since January 1, 2016 nursing inquiry activities greatly increased. Scholarly output for the department includes; 5 departmental podium presentations, 25 hospital-level poster and podium presentations, 6 state conference poster presentations, 17 national conference podium and poster presentations, 10 international conference poster and podium presentations, 5 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 1 book chapter, 1 published abstract, 5 grant submissions, and 3 workshop presentations. These numbers including many frontline staff members who had not previously participated were first-time presenters and authors. Prior to these formalized resources scholarly output was not rigorously tracked, but was primarily limited to those in leadership positions.
Implications: The dedication and formalization of a small amount of support for nursing inquiry dramatically increased our department's scholarly output. Nurses are a fundamental component of patient care and therefore must be the biggest advocates for advancing the science of nursing. The creation of dedicated nursing part-time inquiry roles can address the barriers that bedside nurses face including time, knowledge and leadership support deficits. This development project provides a tangible solution to the mandate that nurses become leaders in the advancement of high quality patient care.