Abstract
Nurses in the present health care environment have been reduced too often to being
providers of safe, competent care rather than quality care. In response, the Institute
of Medicine has recommended that nurses become more involved in making changes to
the health care system and use data more effectively. If nursing intends to follow
these recommendations, the profession needs (a) fresh perspectives to assist in making
health care system changes, (b) partnerships between nurse scientists and nurse clinicians
to generate and implement data, and (c) capture of the proper value of nursing as
distinct from other elements of health care delivery. The Colorado Collaborative for
Nursing Research is an effort to meet the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine.
The Colorado Collaborative for Nursing Research has a three-arm structure: a research
forum where nurse academicians and nurse clinicians can launch collaborative projects;
a research support services arm from which nurse collaborators can obtain help with
modeling, statistics, writing, and funding; and a data extraction/data sharing mechanism
to inform the decision making of nurse leaders.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 02, 2014
Accepted:
August 19,
2014
Received in revised form:
July 30,
2014
Received:
February 26,
2014
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