Nursing Policy Research : Turning Evidence-Based Research into Health Policy

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.;chapt Back to the future: from evidence to policy / Geri L. Dickson Nursing outcomes research: connections to workforce issues and policy decisions / Sean P. Clarke Addressing the complexities of survey research / Patricia Moulton ... [et al.] Forecasting a state supply and demand of RNs using the revised 2005 HRSA models / Lynn Unruh and Valerie Danesh Missing data effects on nurse workforce analysis and projections / Jennifer G. Nooney Work satisfaction among staff nurses in acute care hospitals / Carol S. Brewer and Christine Tassone Kovner Workload, quality of care, and job satisfaction in home health nurses / Linda Flynn The emotional demands of nursing / Rebecca J. Erickson Nursing's long-term pipeline: a study of high schools student using a unique data collection approach / Rebecca Rudel and Patricia Moulton The looming crisis of an inadequate pipeline for nursing faculty / Brenda Cleary ... [et al.] Clinical simulation and the need for evidence-based policy / Felissa R. Lashley and Wendy Nehring Of horses & ponies: taking your show to Washington / Claudia L. McDonald AHRQ funding opportunities for nurse researchers / Kathleen Kendrick, Gail S. Makulowich, and Mary L. Grady From issues to action: how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation influences health policy / Lori Melichar and Susan B. Hassmiller A metaphor for addressing the nurse shortage in Oregon / Judith L. Woodruff Policy development and nursing / Lucille A. Joel State funding for nurse faculty loan repayment: the Vermont experience / Mary Val Palumbo Using research to influence federal policy: the nephrology nurses' experience / Linda Flynn, Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, and Sandra M. Bodin From research to policy: the ultimate translation / Linda Flynn and Geri L. Dickson.

"[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. "[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. Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.