Approaches to Community Nursing Research Partnerships

Learning to work together: developing academic and community research partnerships.

BACKGROUND Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been promoted as an important collaborative methodology for addressing local health concerns. However, academic physicians and researchers usually are not trained to work with communities as partners. METHODS Key characteristics of effective community-academic partnerships are examined based on experiences with 2 CBPR projects in Wi...

A Need for Strong Partnerships for Successful Nursing Home Research.

In 2012, there were approximately 15,700 nursing homes (NHs) in the United States, with 1,383,700 residents (Harris-Kojetin, Sengupta, Park-Lee & Valverde, 2013). It is projected that by 2030 one in five Americans will be 65 or older (Colby & Ortman, 2015); thus, there is anticipation of an increased need for long-term care services, including NH care, to support these older adults. Due to limi...

Editorial: Methodological Approaches for Quantitative Nursing Research

Nursing Students' Comprehension of Community Health Nursing Training in Field: A Qualitative Research

Introduction: Community health nursing education in filed is one of the main courses of Iranian nursing education curriculum however, little scientific attention has been paid to the evaluation of community health nursing process so far. Therefore, the present study was conducted to explore nursing students' comprehension of community health nursing in field education. Methods: A qualitative s...

International conference: community health nursing research.

This year we have a change of President, we would like to pass our sincere thanks to Professor Jean McIntosh, OBE who has provided wonderful inspiration to community health nursing researchers for many decades and has been a real figurehead for ICCHNR. Jean now passes the baton to Professor Fiona Ross whom we warmly welcome as ICCHNR President and we look forward to developing a new relationshi...