A collaborative community model for nursing research: meeting the agenda for the 90's.

Nursing research can be fostered in an era of constrained resources through the collaborative efforts of university faculty and community agencies. A model for establishing a formal structure linking doctorally-prepared nursing faculty with nurses in eight clinical agencies is described. The model provides affiliative status, maximizes the utilization of human and material resources, and affords conduct of both individual and multiple-site research programs.