title: Promoting Bedside Nurse-Led Research Through a Dedicated Neuroscience Nursing Research Fellowship.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We hypothesized that nurses would benefit from the fellowship model traditionally used to engage physicians in clinical research. The Neuroscience Nursing Research Center (NNRC) fellowship program was created as a model for engaging nurses at all levels of clinical practice to become active in clinical research.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The NNRC was established in 2013 as a novel approach to promote bedside nurses as primary investigators in clinical research.
  
  
  METHODS
  The NNRC developed 4 pathways to nursing research success: research fellowship, student-nurse internship, didactic training, and research consultation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fellows have enrolled more than 900 participants in 14 studies. Nurses have presented more than 20 abstracts at 12 conferences and submitted 11 manuscripts for publication. The NNRC has provided research training to more than 150 nurses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The NNRC program is successful in engaging nurses in research. It shows promise to continue to develop nursing research that is applicable to clinicians and thus improve patient care.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Program Manager for Neuroscience Nursing Research Center and Clinical Research Manager (Dr Stutzman), Associate Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Nursing Research Center (Dr Olson), Assistant Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Research Development Office (Dr Supnet), Program Manager for Neurology Research (Ms Harper), Director of Neuroscience Services at University Hospital (Ms Brown-Cleere), Chief Operation Officer at University Hospital (Ms McCulley), and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology (Dr Goldberg), Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stutzman
authors.forename: DaiWai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Charlene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Supnet
authors.forename: Caryn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown-Cleere
authors.forename: Becky
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McCulley
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D065816:Neuroscience Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D012109:Research Support as Topic