title: Research in the Rehabilitation Unit Presents Challenges to Nurse Researchers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Gathering data from patients on a rehabilitation unit poses challenges for nurse researchers.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case study is presented that describes ways the researchers attempted to meet these challenges while conducting their study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The case study presents the approaches that the investigators took to undertake the study and then described the ways in which these approaches could have been improved.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Their successes and failures are described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Suggestions are made for future investigators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical nursing research is required to develop an evidence base for practice in the rehabilitation unit. An analysis of the challenges and possible methods of overcoming these challenges is useful to both future investigators and nurses in practice to insure that studies can be carried out effectively.
authors.affiliation: 1 College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA2 Department of Engineering, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA3 Amarex Clinical Research LLC, Greenville, NC, USA4 Durham Technical Community College, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: Janice A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Neil
authors.forename: Ricky
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Castles
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pokorny
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hand
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D000078329:Workforce