GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING INTERVENTIONS RESEARCH CENTER

爱荷华州老年护理干预研究中心（GNIRC）的大学的广泛目标是提供一个环境，将加强和扩大干预为重点的研究，在护理和相关学科的健康老年人在各种护理环境。 具体目标是：1。加强专门用于促进老年护理干预和成果研究的基础设施。 2.指导和支持初级研究人员（或那些新的研究领域）在试点项目的行为，将作为大规模的外部资助项目的基础上，在老年护理研究。 3.提供一个激励的合作环境，在老年护理和他们的跨学科同行建立的高级研究人员可以继续茁壮成长。 4.促进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;和B）更广泛的科学界。 5.提供老年学为中心的培训机会，在研究设计和方法的研究人员在整个连续的研究生涯。 6.加强中西部四所大学教师之间的合作关系，从而实现更广泛的内容和方法的专业知识，获得更广泛和多样化的老年人科目，并促进多地点研究。该中心继续建立在老年护理研究，护理知识的结构（干预措施和结果分类），并转化研究促进循证实践的爱荷华州大学教师的研究优势。 它还与护理学院的两个博士课程重点互补：老年护理研究和护理系统研究。 它是嵌入在一个强大的支持性跨学科网络的老年学/老年医学研究人员和中心从其他爱荷华州部门和学院的大学（包括医学，药学，牙科，文科，社会工作，工程和商业）。 最后，通过扩大该中心的范围，以更广泛的地理区域，它促进了联系，扩大集中在爱荷华州的老年护理研究的专业知识，同时利用相对更孤立的高级研究人员与既定的研究计划，以及一个更大的主题人口库。

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.