Nursing Policy Research

Turning Evidence-Based Research into Health Policy
Herausgeber: Dickson, Geri L. RN; Flynn, Linda RN

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Produktbeschreibung

[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."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780826133335
• ISBN-10: 0826133339
• Artikelnr.: 23561746

Inhaltsangabe

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
1. Back to the Future: From Evidence to Policy, Geri L. Dickson
2. 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
3. Addressing the Complexities of Survey Research, Patricia Moulton, Linda M.
Lacey, Linda Flynn, Christine Tassone Kovner and Carol S. Brewer
4. Forecasting a State Supply and Demand of RNs Using the Revised 2005 HRSA
Models, Lynn Unruh and Valerie Danesh
5. 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
6. Work Satisfaction among Staff Nurses in Acute Care Hospitals, Carol S.
Brewer and Christine Tassone Kovner
7. Workload, Quality of Care, and Job Satisfaction in Home Health Nurses,
Linda Flynn
8. The Emotional Demands of Nursing, Rebecca J. Erickson
Lessons Learned, Geri L. Dickson
Section IV: Research and Educational Policy
Introduction, Geri L. Dickson
9. Nursing's Long-Term Pipeline: A Study of High Schools Student Using a
Unique Data Collection Approach, Rebecca Rudel and Patricia Moulton
10. The Looming Crisis of an Inadequate Pipeline for Nursing Faculty, Brenda
Cleary, James W. Bevill, Jr., Linda Lacey, and Jennifer G. Nooney
11. 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
12. Of Horses & Ponies: Taking Your Show to Washington, Claudia L. McDonald
13. AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Nurse Researchers, Kathleen Kendrick, Gail
S. Makulowich, and Mary L. Grady
14. From Issues to Action: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Influences
Health Policy, Lori Melichar and Susan B. Hassmiller
15. 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
16. Policy Development and Nursing, Lucille A. Joel
17. State Funding for Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment: The Vermont Experience,
Mary Val Palumbo
18. Using Research to Influence Federal Policy: The Nephrology Nurses'
Experience, Linda Flynn, Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, and Sandra M. Bodin
Lessons Learned, Linda Flynn
Epilogue
19. From Research to Policy - The Ultimate Translation, Linda Flynn and Geri L.
Dickson
Index