Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research and Development, Salem, VA.
Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC; Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Nurs Outlook. 2019 Jan-Feb;67(1):6-12. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2018.06.011. Epub 2018 Jul 11.
In 1995, VA's Office of Research and Development launched the Nursing Research Initiative (NRI), to encourage nurses to apply for research funding and to increase the role of nurse investigators in the VA's research mission. This program provides novice nurse researchers the opportunity to further develop their research skills with the guidance of a mentor.
Since the NRI's inception, its impact on the research career trajectory of budding nurse researchers had never been fully explored.
An electronic quality improvement survey was developed to collect information about the scope of work and research trajectory of VA nurse researchers undertaken since they received NRI funding.
NRI awardees demonstrated research productivity in several areas including research funding, peer-reviewed publications; participation on journal editorial boards and grant review committees; and mentorship. The majority of past NRI grant recipients (78%) have maintained employment within the VA system and benefit from the expertise, mentoring, and support of other nurse researchers. NRI grant recipients confirm the value of the VA NRI mentored grant funding mechanism and its association with a productive research trajectory with survey respondents demonstrating an average return on investment of $7.7 million in research funding per person.
The experiences derived from the NRI accelerated the professional growth and research productivity of this group and it guided future opportunities to design, implement, and test nurse-led interventions.
1995 年，VA 研究与开发办公室启动了护理研究倡议（NRI），鼓励护士申请研究资金，并增加护士调查员在 VA 研究任务中的作用。该计划为新手护士研究人员提供了在导师指导下进一步发展研究技能的机会。
自 NRI 成立以来，其对崭露头角的护士研究人员的研究职业轨迹的影响从未得到充分探索。
开发了电子质量改进调查，以收集有关 VA 护士研究人员自获得 NRI 资助以来所从事的工作范围和研究轨迹的信息。
NRI 获奖者在多个领域表现出研究生产力，包括研究资金、同行评议出版物；参与期刊编辑委员会和资助审查委员会；以及指导。过去大多数 NRI 赠款获得者（78%）仍在 VA 系统内就业，并受益于其他护士研究人员的专业知识、指导和支持。NRI 赠款获得者确认 VA NRI 指导赠款资金机制的价值及其与富有成效的研究轨迹的关联，调查受访者的平均投资回报率为每人 770 万美元用于研究资金。
NRI 获得的经验加速了该群体的专业成长和研究生产力，并为未来设计、实施和测试护士主导的干预措施提供了机会。
