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55 4 Status and Future Role of Academic Nursing in Clinical Research Nurses with doctoral training are needed not only to train the nursing workforce but also to conduct research and oversee research training. Yet the number of doctorally trained nurses is insufficient to meet the demand in academic and clinical settings.
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56 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 34 percent of the nursing faculty is expected to retire, exacerbating the current situation. The maturing R.N.
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ACADEMIC NURSING 57 In general, students enter academic nursing programs to prepare themselves as clinicians, not researchers. Students and future clinical researchers often are not aware of the possibility of becoming clinical researchers, have incorrect assumptions about research, or believe that research would simply not be a good career match for them (Woods, 2003)
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58 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 TABLE 4-1 Race and Ethnicity of Graduates from Baccalaureate, Master's, and Doctoral Programs in Nursing, 1999-2002 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Total baccalaureate enrollment (generic [basic]
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ACADEMIC NURSING 59 clinical researchers will require seeking initiatives that lead to both the graduation and retention of minority students (Nugent et al., 2004)
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60 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 In terms of success across NIH, schools of nursing, with few exceptions, are funded by all NIH institutes and centers. The NINR collaborates with other institutes and centers in many areas of shared interest, including joint funding of research project grants and requests for applications (RFAs)
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ACADEMIC NURSING 61 careers to stimulate their interest in research. In addition to the developmental centers and institutional training awards, the NINR intramural program offers an intensive summer genetics institute.
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62 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 nursing shortage, and clinical research is a tremendous draw, bringing nurses who have left back into the profession. Another workshop participant added that even when nurses become coordinators of clinical research activities, they are perceived as having left the nursing field.
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ACADEMIC NURSING 63 BOX 4-1 Summary Nursing's Clinical Research Workforce • Only 0.6 percent of R.N.s are doctorally prepared. • Between 1993 and 2002 the number of new doctorates fluctuated annually between 360 (1999)
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64 CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2010 • Collaborate with the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) to develop partnership center awards to both minority-serving and research-intensive schools of nursing.
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ACADEMIC NURSING 65 • Have students collaborate as members of teams while learning -- clinical projects, research projects. • Broaden students' exposure beyond a single discipline (e.g., see Sung et al., 2003)
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