Smith Jessica G, Laver Sharon
College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.
School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
J Adv Nurs. 2023 Nov;79(11):4238-4244. doi: 10.1111/jan.15836. Epub 2023 Aug 25.
To present and discuss our experiences of learning how to establish and maintain an international collaboration as early career nurse researchers residing in the United States and Australia.
International research collaborations require additional startup time given the complexities of navigating cultural differences, obtaining ethics committee approvals in different countries and collecting human subject data. International collaborations may be daunting for early career researchers given their inexperience and pragmatic focus on research projects that lead to outputs achievable on short timelines for career advancement.
Discussion paper.
Evidence from international literature about global collaborations across numerous disciplines, including potential factors that could facilitate or constrain early career researcher efforts to engage in international collaborations, were combined with authors' lived experiences as early career researchers.
Our collaboration began in July 2022 through a professional introduction spurred by a call for applications to fund global nursing education collaborations. Interpersonal, logistical and organizational factors played a role in our lived experiences of beginning an international collaboration. Our experiences are consistent with published literature about the time and complexity involved in conducting international research.
Investing time building interpersonal relationships strengthens international research and supports collaborative learning and intercultural understanding. These professional relationships can be built over time to develop significant bodies of research with international impact. Early career researchers need to be resilient, persistent and tenacious as they 'jump through hoops' to establish international research collaborations.
Building relationships during international research collaborations supports collaborative learning for intercultural understanding and strengthens research to address emerging global problems. International nursing research collaborations could encourage greater curiosity, innovative ideas and solutions to international problems that could not be achieved in isolation.
There was no patient or public involvement in the design and development of this paper.
介绍并讨论我们作为居住在美国和澳大利亚的早期职业护士研究人员，在学习如何建立和维持国际合作方面的经验。
鉴于应对文化差异、在不同国家获得伦理委员会批准以及收集人体受试者数据的复杂性，国际研究合作需要额外的启动时间。对于早期职业研究人员来说，国际合作可能令人生畏，因为他们缺乏经验，且实际关注的是那些能在短时间内取得成果以促进职业发展的研究项目。
讨论文件。
来自国际文献中关于众多学科全球合作的证据，包括可能促进或限制早期职业研究人员参与国际合作努力的潜在因素，与作者作为早期职业研究人员的实际经历相结合。
我们的合作始于2022年7月，通过一次专业介绍促成，该介绍是由一项资助全球护理教育合作的申请呼吁引发的。人际、后勤和组织因素在我们开展国际合作的实际经历中发挥了作用。我们的经历与已发表的关于开展国际研究所需时间和复杂性的文献一致。
投入时间建立人际关系可加强国际研究，并支持合作学习和跨文化理解。这些专业关系可随着时间的推移得以建立，以开展具有国际影响力的重要研究。早期职业研究人员在“费劲周折”建立国际研究合作时需要有韧性、坚持不懈且顽强。
在国际研究合作中建立关系有助于跨文化理解的合作学习，并加强研究以解决新出现的全球问题。国际护理研究合作可激发更大的好奇心、创新想法以及解决孤立情况下无法实现的国际问题的方案。
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