Future Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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convened the Standing Committee on Credentialing Research in Nursing, sponsored by the American Nurses Credentialing 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual presenters and participants, and are not necessarily endorsed or verified by the Institute of Medicine; they should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus.
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With guidance from a separate planning committee, the workshop was held on September 3 and 4, 2014, in Washington, DC. Twenty different organizations coalesced to sponsor the workshop Future Directions of Credentialing Research in Nursing, which examined a new framework and research priorities to guide future research on the impact of nursing credentialing and nurse certification on outcomes for nurses, organizations, and patients (see Box 1-1)
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The workshop will feature presentations and discussions on the following topics: • Emergent priorities for research in nursing credentialing; • Critical knowledge gaps and methodological limitations in the field; • Promising developments in research methodologies, health met rics, and data infrastructures to better evaluate the impact of nurs ing credentialing; and • Short- and long-term strategies to encourage continued activity in nursing credentialing research. The committee will further develop the agenda topics, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions.
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WORKSHOP THEMES The workshop provided attendees with the opportunity to hear and to share rich experiences, diverse perspectives, and innovative ideas to advance the field of nursing credentialing research. As workshop participants considered research priorities, critical knowledge gaps and methodological limitations, emerging research methodologies and health informatics, and strategies affecting nursing credentialing research, specific ideas and activities were often repeated in both speaker presentations and in audience discussions.
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A Shared Research Framework A common vision or conceptual model is needed to advance the field of nursing credentialing research by framing important research questions that respond to different stakeholder needs. A number of speakers noted that current research on the impact of nurse certification and nursing credentialing is limited and inconsistent.
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Moreover, meaningful measures and metrics of nurse performance are also needed, continued Dykes. Advancement of credentialing research in nursing depends on the ability to aggregate data sets across multiple sources, which requires data harmonization and interoperability not currently available, noted many speakers.
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Expanding on this idea, Dykes suggested that a common data model could facilitate discussion of important metrics (including definitions) and variables in nursing credentialing and promote standardization of data and data collection procedures, thereby increasing interoperability in credentialing research.
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Linda Burnes Bolton noted that efforts to measure whether and how credentialing contributes to the overall "social good" of health promotion could help to establish the utility of credentialing research, in general. Susan Hassmiller suggested that, if research establishes that credentialing leads to improved care, such research could help to advance efforts to implement the IOM recommendations on scope-of-practice barriers in nursing and encourage more nurses to pursue doctoral degrees.
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. Additional Resources to Advance Research Advances in data collection, health informatics, data infrastructures, and research designs offer significant promise to the field of nursing credentialing research, remarked many workshop participants, but these opportunities require additional resources.
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Various convening organizations could educate stakeholders about nursing credentialing and develop research questions in response to stakeholder input, said Burnes Bolton.
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