Nursing research priorities of the national black nurses association☆☆☆★★★♢♢♢
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The purpose of this article is to describe the nursing research priorities of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA). The NBNA is a professional nursing association representing more than 150,000 black nurses throughout the United States and the Eastern Caribbean. This article describes knowledge gaps in nursing research and presents various findings from research studies aimed at defining research priorities in nursing. Recommended research priorities are discussed that are directed toward improving the health of African Americans and other vulnerable populations. The NBNA urges the National Institutes of Health to increase funding to support research initiatives with an emphasis on women's health, particularly the health of women from diverse cultures.
Nursing research programs are steadily yielding results, which enable the nursing profession to meet the goal of using the programs include identification of research priorities, acknowledging the vast disparity in nursing research today.
Nurs Outlook 2001;49:258-62.
Linda Burnes Bolton is vice president and chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, California
☆Crystal Bennett is a research scientist at Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, California.
☆☆Hilda Richards is president of the National Black Nurses Association.
★Faye Gary is distinguished professor at the College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville.
★★Lorna Harris is a research associate professor at the School of Nursing, North Carolina A and T State University, Greensboro.
♢Sandra Millon-Underwood is a professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Milwaukee.
♢♢Betty Smith Williams is professor emeritus at the School of Nursing, California State University, Long Beach.
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