Nursing Research in Context

STEVEN ERSSER Head of Nursing Development and leader of the Skin Vulnerability Research Group in the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Southampton, UK KATHLEEN GALVIN Head of Research and Professor of Health Research at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK BRENDAN MCCORMACK Director of Nursing Research, Practice Development and Clinical Education Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast and University of Ulster, Northern Ireland HUGH MCKENNA Head of School of Nursing, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland ANN MCMAHON RCN Research and Development Adviser ROB NEWELL Professor of Nursing Research at the School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK CAROL PICARD Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts, USA ANNE MARIE RAFFERTY Director for the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK SABI REDWOOD Senior Lecturer in Research at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK MICHAEL TRAYNOR Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

The vision for nursing in the 21st century is for all nurses to seek out and apply evidence in their practice, for an increasing number to be actively participating in research, and for some to become leaders in the field of research.Government policy states that nursing should be a research-based profession. The vision for nursing in the 21st century is for all nurses to seek out and apply evidence in their practice, for an increasing number to be actively participating in research, and for some to become leaders in the field of research. This book will enable student and professional nurses to develop an awareness and appreciation of research, to understand the policy context, and the implications for their own professional development.