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Departments
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Nursing Research
Nursing research takes place through a variety
of affiliated programs. Part of the mandate of the Queen’s University School of
Nursing (http://meds.queensu.ca/nursing/)
is to contribute to the
advancement of nursing knowledge and the development of nursing practice
through research of the highest quality.At Kingston General Hospital, the goal of the Nursing Research Unit is
to develop substantive programs of nurse-led research within the context of the
major clinical programs supported by the hospital,and
to link these programs through common conceptual themes that are of relevance
to nursing practice and patient care. Members of the Nursing Research Unit lead
a competitively funded health services research program focusing on systematic
examination of patient, caregiver, and system outcomes of care for patients
with chronic illness conditions such as cardiovascular disease or cancer; and
on the development and testing of nurse led delivery systems to optimize
functional well being and quality of life for these persons.
In addition, members of the Nursing Research Unit, Queen’s University School
of Nursing and its practice partners have established a Practice and Research
in Nursing (PRN) Group for Nursing Health Services Research (http://meds.queensu.ca/prn/) as a centre
of nursing practice research in Canada. The PRN Group is an innovative academic
practice partnership designed to advance nursing research. It is strongly
committed to building capacity for nurses to conduct research in practice by
examining existing evidence for the implementation of best practice. To this
end each researcher actively participates in multi-national panels to create a
framework for implementation studies of evidence-based nursing recommendations,
and to evaluate implementation strategies and outcome measures and to examine
the feasibility of selected strategies. The PRN Group is the vision of Nurse
Scientists Dr. Margaret Harrison and Dr. Jennifer Medves from the School of
Nursing and Dr. Joan Tranmer, Director of the Kingston General Hospital Nursing
Research Unit.
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