Research Organizations
Numerous organizations promote and support nursing research. They are local, regional, national and international in scope. Organizations offer a variety of services and opportunities including grant support, conferences, networking with other researchers and mentoring. Several of the organizations promote inter-professional collaboration. Your local community, state nurses association or specialty nurse association may also have a research organization. Learn about some of these organizations...
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The mission of NINR is to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations. NINR supports and conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the lifespan. The Institute's research focus encompasses health promotion and disease prevention, quality of life, health disparities, and end-of-life. NINR seeks to extend nursing science by integrating the biological and behavioral sciences, employing new technologies to research questions, improving research methods, and developing the scientists of the future. NINR provides grant support, fellowships and training opportunities such as a summer genetics institute and pain methodologies boot camp.
The goals of CANS are to be a strong voice for nursing science at national and international levels by developing, conducting, and utilizing nursing science, to disseminate research findings across individuals and groups in scientific and lay communities, and to facilitate life-long learning opportunities for nurse scientists. CANS organizes two major conferences: State of the Science Nursing Research Congresses (in even number years) and the Special Research Topics Conferences (in odd number years). The Council funds a seed money grant through the American Nurses Foundation, participates in the National Nursing Research Roundtable, and analyzes and comments on research development and policy issues on behalf of and in concert with the American Academy of Nursing.
The mission of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International is to support the learning, knowledge and professional development of nurses committed to making a difference in health worldwide. STTI provides support to research through its grants.
ENRS is dedicated to creating a community of nurses interested in promoting and supporting regional nursing research in the Eastern Region of the United States. ENRS has Research Interest Groups that offer a wealth of information and opportunities for sharing expertise and first-hand knowledge of research trends. ENRS also sponsors an annual scientific meeting. The goals of ENRS include the following:
- Provide a networking forum for nurse scientists
- Develop nursing science
- Translate evidence to guide practice and education and to influence policy
- Mentor nurse scientists
MNRS transforms how nursing is practiced by promoting, disseminating, and using nursing research and by encouraging and supporting the next generation of nurse scientists. It offers members the opportunity to join research sections to meet and discuss particular interests in nursing science. It offers several research grants and sponsors an annual research conference.
While considered a regional nursing research society, SNRS membership includes nurses in the southern region of the US, the Bahamas and the countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. There are 14 research interest groups in which members can participate to receive feedback and advice on research ideas as well as to respond to other researcher's comments and questions. The society offers several research awards and sponsors an annual conference. The mission of the SNRS includes the following:
- Advance nursing research
- Promote dissemination and utilization of research findings
- Facilitate the career development of nurses and nursing students as researchers
- Enhance communication among members
WIN advances nursing science, education and practice to improve health outcomes. It provides an opportunity for nurses to mentor or be mentored in research, education, and clinical roles. WIN administers NEXUS, a nursing education exchange. Courses are available by distance learning technologies to doctoral students enrolled in collaborating universities. WIN also sponsors an annual research conference. Its goals include:
- Creating a forum for exchange of scholarship and research
- Promoting safe and cost effective nursing practice
- Fostering research, practice, and educational innovations and improvements
- Disseminating nursing research and scholarship that addresses health care, practice and education
ISRN is a consortium of clinical and academic scholars. ISRN’s mission is to accelerate interprofessional improvement science using a systems approach across multiple hospital sites. ISRN is founded on a longstanding commitment to translational research and evidence-based practice. ISRN is creating a comprehensive network for improvement research within acute care settings. ISRN is an innovative multisite, national clinical laboratory through which research in this field can be rapidly increased and the findings can be rapidly disseminated.
NNPN is a collaborative website for nurses to share their expertise, successes and failures, and thoughts with other nurses. NNPN is a consortium of acute care healthcare agencies committed to the use of evidence-based practices through a collaborative model designed to promote shared learning and participation. Member organizations represent nurses in 26 states in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Singapore and consist of community, academic, and VA hospitals.
NCRN is a collaborative partnership among Nurse Managed Health Centers (NMHC) for the purpose of promoting practice-based research within and among national and international NMHC. NCRN supports national and international practice based research within and among nurse managed health centers. Research results are also used to influence policies that advance nursing practice and meet societal needs. Individual researchers are also supported to expand their skills and increase opportunities for translational research.
AcademyHealth is an interprofessional organization for health services researchers and health policy analysts that seeks to improve health and health care by generating new knowledge and moving knowledge into action. There are interest groups organized around specific topic areas that offer members an opportunity to exchange knowledge, disseminate research findings, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build research skills, and network with those sharing common goals. AcademyHealth manages many projects and initiatives and conducts an annual research meeting. ANA is an affiliate member of AcademyHealth.
CTSAs program supports efforts to speed the translation of laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research efforts, and to train a new generation of clinical and translational researchers. The CTSA program creates academic homes for clinical and translational science at research institutions across the country. A major goal of the program is to develop interdisciplinary teams of investigators from various fields of research who can transform scientific discoveries made in the laboratory into treatments and strategies for patients.
Primary care practice-based research networks, or PBRNs, are a group of ambulatory practices devoted principally to the primary care of patients, and affiliated in their mission to investigate questions related to community-based practice and to improve the quality of primary care. The network typically commits to activities and an organizational structure that transcends a single research project. PBRNs often link practicing clinicians with investigators experienced in clinical and health services research, while at the same time enhancing the research skills of the network members.
New York State has several regional nursing research alliances affiliated with the Foundation of New York State Nurses.
The Capital District Nursing Research Alliance is a regional nursing research alliance affiliated with the Foundation of New York State Nurses. It facilitates collaboration among nursing students, nurses, and nursing scholars in health care organizations and academic institutions to conduct, utilize and disseminate research findings readily translatable into evidence based practice and health policy.
The CT Nursing Research Alliance is a group of organizations that developed a network to support nurses and nursing students in evidence-based practice activities including nursing research and research utilization. The Alliance promotes improving the health of individuals and communities by supporting evidence-based nursing practice through collaborative efforts. There are ongoing activities and an annual research conference.
This is a group of agency based individuals who facilitate nursing research and clinical inquiry. The consortium promotes evidence-based practice in nursing care, and provides a forum for presenting research, evidenced-based, and quality improvement work conducted by nurses engaged in direct patient care.