Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：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，加强和扩大关于各种护理环境中老年人健康的护理和相关学科的研究，并促进将该研究转化为临床实践。整个GNIRC的总体目标是：1.加强致力于促进老年护理研究的基础设施，重点是干预措施和结果有效性研究。2.指导和支持初级研究人员(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.促进知识从学术领域转移到：a)实践(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为他们提供以老年学为中心的研究设计和方法方面的培训机会。6.加强合作学校(主要在中西部)的教员之间的合作关系，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科目，并促进多地点研究；7.在联盟学校之间划分和实施3种类型的合作伙伴关系(紧张、同行和指导)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The broad objective of the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center (GNIRC) at the University of Iowa is to provide an environment that will strengthen and expand research in nursing and related disciplines regarding the health of elders in a variety of care settings and to facilitate the translation of that research into clinical practice. The overall aims for the entire GNIRC are to: 1. Strengthen an infrastructure dedicated to the facilitation of gerontological nursing research with an emphasis on interventions and outcomes effectiveness studies. 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) practice (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 partner schools (predominantly in the Midwest), thereby achieving a greater variety of content and methods expertise, gaining access to more extensive and heterogeneous elderly subjects, and facilitating multi-site studies; 7. Delineate and implement 3 types of partner relationships (Intense, Peer, and Mentored) among the consortium schools.