GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING INTERVENTIONS RESEARCH CENTER

爱荷华大学老年护理干预研究中心(GNIRC)的广泛目标是提供一个环境，以加强和扩大护理和相关学科中关于各种护理环境中老年人健康的干预研究。具体目标是：1.加强致力于促进老年护理干预和结果研究的基础设施。2.指导和支持初级调查人员(或该研究领域的新手)开展试点项目，这些项目将作为外部资助的大规模老年护理研究项目的基础。3.提供一个激励性的协作环境，使老年护理领域的资深研究人员及其跨学科同行能够继续蓬勃发展。4.促进将知识从学术界转移到：a)临床(长期护理、社区护理和急性护理)环境；以及b)更广泛的科学界。5.在研究人员的整个研究生涯中，向他们提供以老年学为中心的研究设计和方法培训机会。6.加强中西部四所大学教员之间的协作关系，从而实现更多样化的内容和方法专长，获得更广泛和多样化的老年学科，并为多地点研究提供便利。该中心继续巩固爱荷华大学教师在老年护理研究、护理知识结构(干预措施和结果分类)以及促进循证实践的转化性研究方面的研究优势。它也是对护理学院的两个博士项目的补充：老年护理研究和护理系统研究。它嵌入了一个由来自爱荷华大学其他系和学院(包括医学、药剂学、牙科、文科、社会工作、工程学和商科)的老年学/老年研究人员和中心组成的强大的跨学科支持网络。最后，通过将中心的范围扩大到更广泛的地理区域，它建立了联系，扩大了集中在爱荷华州的老年护理研究的专业知识，同时利用相对孤立的高级调查人员和既定的研究计划以及更大的受试者人口库。

The broad objective of The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Intervention Research Center (GNIRC) is to provide an environment that will strengthen and expand intervention focused research in nursing and related disciplines regarding the health of elders in a variety of care settings. Specific aims are to: 1. strengthen an infrastructure dedicated to the facilitation of gerontological nursing intervention and outcomes research. 2. mentor and support junior investigators (or those new to this area of research) in the conduct of pilot projects that will serve as the basis for large-scale externally funded projects in gerontological nursing research. 3. provide a stimulating collaborative environment in which established senior investigators in gerontological nursing and their interdisciplinary counterparts can continue to thrive. 4. facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the academic to: a) clinical (long-term care, community-based, and acute care) settings; and b) the broader scientific community. 5. provide gerontologically-centered training opportunities in research design and methods to investigators throughout the continuum of their research careers. 6. strengthen collaborative relations among faculty at four universities in the Midwest, thereby achieving a greater variety of content and methods expertise, gaining access to more extensive and heterogeneous elderly subjects, and facilitating multisite studies. This center continues to build upon the research strengths of the faculty at the University of Iowa in gerontological nursing research, the structure of nursing knowledge (interventions and outcomes classification), and translational research fostering evidence based practice. It is also complementary with the two doctoral program foci in the College of Nursing: Gerontological Nursing Research and Nursing Systems Research. It is embedded in a strong supportive interdisciplinary network of gerontological/geriatric investigators and Centers from other University of Iowa departments and colleges (including Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Liberal Arts, Social Work, Engineering, and Business). Finally, by expanding the scope of the center to a wider geographic region, it fosters linkages that extend the expertise in gerontological nursing research concentrated at Iowa, while simultaneously capitalizing on relatively more isolated senior investigators with established programs of research as well as a larger subject population pool.