You have been employed by a large hospital as a nurse researcher. Very little research has so far been undertaken by the nursing and midwifery staff at the hospital. Your role involves promoting nursing and midwifery research and creating a stimulating, friendly and supportive environment for this purpose. How might you go about your role?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWERS 1. Make yourself informally known to as many of the nursing and midwifery staff as possible in the early days. 2. Arrange sessions during convenient times in order to speak to the staff and explain your formal role. Get permission from the Director of Nursing to allow staff time to attend. Find out what their particular interests in the clinical field are and encourage them to attend further meetings you have planned for further discussion. Choose a comfortable, well-lit room away from interruptions. Try to establish the extent of the staff's knowledge regarding their personal research knowledge and any research they may be aware of occurring in practice. Perform a ‘scoping' exercise to establish those staff who are interested in or actually conducting research activities i.e. data collection. 3. At follow-up meetings, invite the nurses/midwives to bring an article or topic of their choice. Choose a few articles from the ones the nurses/midwives have mentioned. Let the staff know you are interested in an interactive session— questions and answers. Examine the articles, their outcomes, etc, and encourage questions. Perhaps design a research proposal to address research questions that arise. 4. Invite guest nurses or midwives who have conducted research to speak so that they get a feel of what research is about from an insider perspective. 5. Evaluate sessions to allow future sessions to be better tailored to staff's needs and expectations. 6. Form research support forums, e.g. a Journal Club, and organise them to meet their stated needs. They should be owned by the participants to engage them further. 7. Demonstrate areas of practice that have been influenced for the better through research and evidence-based practice examples.
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