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Because the nature of nursing research is highly complex involving intra-and interdisciplinary attention to multiple facets of clinical research problems as well as the involvement of numerous health care scientists and settings of various types, a formal structure is provided to facilitate such cooperative scientific endeavors.
The Office of Nursing Research
- facilitates the scholarly endeavors of the scientific community of faculty and student researchers
- formalizes the faculty's commitment to research as a major responsibility of the profession
- provides an environment in which faculty and students can be highly productive
- helps create a research "bridge" between practice and education for generating and using nursing knowledge
Support Services
The following services are available to support faculty and students research in the college.
- Facilitate faculty career development and scholarly productivity
- mentor for research program development
- administration of intramural research programs
- provide peer review on manuscripts
- Consultation during proposal development
- statistical and other consultation during the proposal writing process
- mock review of proposals
- Assistance during proposal preparation
- format proposals
- route completed proposals
- Central repository for information applicable to scholarship, including
- biographical sketches, standardized proposal materials
- announcement of funding
- notices of awards for funding and ongoing records of research accomplishments
- Creating a milieu that supports the research and scholarship of faculty and graduate students
- provide seminars and workshops on timely research topics
- provide forums for the exchange of ideas between researchers and graduate students
- disseminate information about research interests and accomplishments
- maintain research resources including laboratories
For More Information Contact:
Office of Nursing Research
The University of Arizona
1305 N. Martin Avenue, Room 410
P.O. Box 210203
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0203
(520) 626-7124
Fax: (520) 626 2211
onr@nursing.arizona.edu
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