Research an exciting journey and a career statement: a means to an end, putting rurality on the nursing research agenda.
Two issues were of importance to nurses in rural areas considering postgraduate studies. The first was the need for part-time study and what this entails. The second was a request that there be no research component within the postgraduate courses they identified. It is this second issue that I wish to address. I was a nonbeliever in the merit of research studies being integrated into nursing specialist programs. Following a long career in rural clinical nursing and management I have come full circle and now acknowledge the need to understand the role to base practice evidence that is generated through empirical research.
Allen
Sonia
S
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia. sonia.allen@med.monash.edu.au
Francis
Karen
K
O'Connor
Margaret
M
D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012107:Research Design; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D012423:Rural Health; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*