Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research / Edition 1

by Ada Sue Hinshaw PhD, RN, FAAN, Patricia A. Grady PhD, RN, FAAN

Overview

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Nursing Research!

This is a much needed addition to nursing's arsenal of policy books. It is the first to really examine the need for scientific evidence to underpin policy. The two editors are pioneers in research and have led nursing research to new levels. It is fitting they do the same in underscoring the important role nurses have in using their programs of research to develop policy agendas.Score: 94, 4 stars

—Doody's

A must-read for health care policy makers, as well as nursing students, faculty, and professionals, this groundbreaking text provides actual strategies for translating nursing research to health policy at all levels of policy-making. The editors, both leaders in nursing research, provide key findings from research programs that have positively influenced health policy decisions and programs at community, state, national, and international levels.

The first compilation of information linking health policy and nursing research, this text presents perspectives and frameworks for understanding the processes bridging research and health policy; multiple factors influencing the processes; and actual examples of National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)-funded research that has influenced health policy programs.

Key Features:

• Examples of NINR-funded research that has been used at all levels to influence health policy, including settings, populations, and age spectrums
• Models and strategies for linking research and health policy
• Lessons learned from pioneer nurse scientists who have shaped health policy with nursing research
• Recommendations for improving nurses' work environments for better patient outcomes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826110695
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/26/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, is dean emeritus and professor emeritus, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and dean emeritus and professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing, where she served as dean from 1994 to 2006. She was also the first permanent director of the National Center of Nursing Research and the first director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1988, first as an extramural research program administrator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), then as a member of the NIH Task Force for Medical Rehabilitation Research and assistant director of NINDS, until 1995, when she was appointed director of the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Section I: Models and Strategies: Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research

1. Science Shaping Health Policy: How Is Nursing Research Evident in Such Policy Changes?
Ada Sue Hinshaw

2. Research: A Foundation for Health Policy
Patricia A. Grady

3. Shaping Health Policy: The Role of Nursing Research- Three Frameworks and Their Application to Policy Development
Judith Shamian and Moriah Shamian-Ellen

4. The Role of Science Policy in Programs of Research and Scholarship
Suzanne L. Feetham

5. Changing Health Science Policy: The Establishment of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health
Ada Sue Hinshaw and Janet Heinrich

6. Using Evidence-Based Practice to Enhance Organizational Policies, Healthcare Quality, and Patient Outcomes
Bernadette Mazrek Melnyk and Kathleen M. Williamson

Section II: Investigators' Experience with Nursing Research Shaping Health Policy at Multiple Levels

7. From Bedside to Bench to Practice
Norma A. Metheny

8. Translating Personal Challenges to Public Policy
Carolyn M. Sampselle

9. Shaping HIV/AIDS Prevention Policy for Minority Youth
Antonia M. Villarruel and Loretta S. Jemmott

10. Health Promotion and Prevention in Early Childhood: The Role of Nursing Research in Shaping Policy and Practice
Deborah Gross and Angela Crowley

11. Influencing Policy for Improving End-of-Life Care
Virginia P. Tilden

12. Two Decades of Research on Physical Restraint: Impact on Practice and Policy
Lois K. Evans and Neville E. Strumpf

13. Research on Human Sleep: Need to Inform Public Policies
David F. Dinges

14. Transitional Care: Improving Health Outcomes and Decreasing Costs for At-Risk Chronically Ill Older Adults
Mary D. Naylor and Ellen T. Kurtzman

15. Nursing: Saving Lives, Improving Patient Care Outcomes
Linda H. Aiken

16 Nursing Workforce and Health Policy
Linda O'Brien-Pallas and Laureen Hayes

17. Research Technology: Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring
Stanley M. Finkelstein and Rhonda G. Cady

18. Building Evidence for Practice, Training, and Policy: A Program of Research on Living Well With HIV/AIDS
William L. Holzemer

Section III: Conclusions

19. Forging the Missing Link: From Nursing Research to Health Policy
Ada Sue Hinshaw and Patricia A. Grady

Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carole A. Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF (The College of New Jersey)
Description: This book presents health policy in a unique light - that of its scientific underpinnings. It moves from the science and the gaps in knowledge to exemplars of research that have influenced policy and, finally, to lessons learned in how to use research findings to support policy work.
Purpose: The purpose is to convince nurses that the use of research for policy work is critical to the success of the adoption or passage of policies.
Audience: The intended audience is nursing students at all educational levels, faculty, and practicing nurses.
Features: An overview of science/research findings and how they have been used to influence policy begins the book. The next sections provide concrete examples of programs of research that resulted in policies, such as Dr. Mary Naylor's work and transitional care. The final section illustrates lessons learned and what has worked, and discusses some surprises in how to use science to inform policy, an example of which is telehealth and the dramatic change in linking people in their homes with health professionals.
Assessment: This is a much needed addition to nursing's arsenal of policy books. It is the first to really examine the need for scientific evidence to underpin policy. The two editors are pioneers in research and have led nursing research to new levels. It is fitting they do the same in underscoring the important role nurses have in using their programs of research to develop policy agendas.

Doody's Review Service

Reviewer: Carole Ann Kenner, DNS, MSN, BSN (Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences)
Description: This book presents health policy in a unique light - that of its scientific underpinnings. It moves from the science and the gaps in knowledge to exemplars of research that have influenced policy and, finally, to lessons learned in how to use research findings to support policy work.
Purpose: The purpose is to convince nurses that the use of research for policy work is critical to the success of the adoption or passage of policies.
Audience: The intended audience is nursing students at all educational levels, faculty, and practicing nurses.
Features: An overview of science/research findings and how they have been used to influence policy begins the book. The next sections provide concrete examples of programs of research that resulted in policies, such as Dr. Mary Naylor's work and transitional care. The final section illustrates lessons learned and what has worked, and discusses some surprises in how to use science to inform policy, an example of which is telehealth and the dramatic change in linking people in their homes with health professionals.
Assessment: This is a much needed addition to nursing's arsenal of policy books. It is the first to really examine the need for scientific evidence to underpin policy. The two editors are pioneers in research and have led nursing research to new levels. It is fitting they do the same in underscoring the important role nurses have in using their programs of research to develop policy agendas.

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