Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082611069X ISBN 13: 9780826110695

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2010

Synopsis

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Nursing Research!

This is a much needed addition to nursing's arsenal of policy books. It is the first to really examine the need for scientific evidence to underpin policy. The two editors are pioneers in research and have led nursing research to new levels. It is fitting they do the same in underscoring the important role nurses have in using their programs of research to develop policy agendas.Score: 94, 4 stars

--Doody's

A must-read for health care policy makers, as well as nursing students, faculty, and professionals, this groundbreaking text provides actual strategies for translating nursing research to health policy at all levels of policy-making. The editors, both leaders in nursing research, provide key findings from research programs that have positively influenced health policy decisions and programs at community, state, national, and international levels.

The first compilation of information linking health policy and nursing research, this text presents perspectives and frameworks for understanding the processes bridging research and health policy; multiple factors influencing the processes; and actual examples of National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)-funded research that has influenced health policy programs.

Key Features:

• Examples of NINR-funded research that has been used at all levels to influence health policy, including settings, populations, and age spectrums
• Models and strategies for linking research and health policy
• Lessons learned from pioneer nurse scientists who have shaped health policy with nursing research
• Recommendations for improving nurses' work environments for better patient outcomes

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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About the Author:

Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, is dean emeritus and professor emeritus, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and dean emeritus and professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing, where she served as dean from 1994 to 2006. Dr. Hinshaw was selected as an American Academy of Nursing (AAN)/American Foundation of Nursing/Institute of Medicine Senior Nurse Scholar from 2006 to 2007. She was also the first permanent director of the National Center of Nursing Research and the first director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During her tenure at NIH, Dr. Hinshaw was responsible for promoting research in the areas of disease prevention, health promotion, and acute and chronic illness, as well as investigating environments that enhance nursing care and patient outcomes. She has conducted research in quality of care, patient outcomes, measurement of outcomes, and building positive work environments to enhance patient safety. Dr. Hinshaw is the recipient of many awards for her work, including the Midwest Nursing Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award, the Health Leader of the Year Award from the U.S. Public Health Service, the Award for Excellence in Nursing Research (Sigma Theta Tau), the Nurse Scientist of the Year Award (ANA Council of Nurse Researchers), the Living Legend Award from the AAN, and the Walsh McDermott Award from the National Academy of Medicine. She has received 14 honorary doctorates.

Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1988, first as an extramural research program administrator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), then as a member of the NIH Task Force for Medical Rehabilitation Research and assistant director of NINDS, until 1995, when she was appointed director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Under her leadership, the institute has more than doubled its budget and significantly increased the number of research and training grants awarded. Dr. Grady is an internationally recognized researcher on the topic of stroke. She also served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and School of Medicine.

She has co-authored numerous articles and serves on many journal editorial boards, including Stroke, Stroke and Cerebral Vascular Diseases, and NeuroTherapeutics, the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics. Dr. Grady is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Policy Luminary Award from the American Academy of Colleges of Nursing, the Second Century Award for Excellence in Health Care from Columbia University School of Nursing, and the honorary doctor of science degree from Thomas Jefferson University and the Medical University of South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 082611069X
• ISBN 13: 9780826110695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Hinshaw PhD RN FAAN Ada Sue, Grady PhD RN FAAN Patricia A.