title: Building a hospital nursing research department.
abstract: The value of research to the practice of nursing has been well documented. The difficult question today is how to establish a formal research component into the nursing division when funding sources are scarce or nonexistent. The process that one large tertiary-care hospital used to accomplish this goal is analyzed. The authors discuss design, resources, implementation, financing, and program maintenance.
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009674:Nova Scotia; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012106:Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D012579:Schools, Nursing