title: Partnership to build research capacity.
abstract: Today's nursing leaders are setting the stage for the next evolution--bringing together skilled clinicians and administrators with peers in education to create new approaches to leading the profession forward. Partnerships share goals, common purpose, mutual respect, willingness to negotiate and compromise, informed participation, information giving, and shared decision making. The shared practice academia effort between a public university and a private health care system situated in the island state of Hawai'i is described. The medical center and school of nursing pursued individual strategic efforts to build research capacity and used the opportunity to fund academic practice research projects. The mutual need and recognition of the high stakes involved, in concert with stable, committed leaders at all levels, were key to the early success of their efforts. Through the formal research partnership mechanism, a discrete focus was created for efforts and used to move to tactical, operational, and interpersonal integration in this relationship.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawai'i, Manoa School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: Mary G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Boland
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kamikawa
authors.forename: Jillian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Inouye
authors.forename: Renee W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Latimer
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marshall
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006254:Hawaii; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*