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）的主要目标是提供一个环境，以加强和扩大护理和相关学科在各种护理环境中对老年人健康的研究，并促进研究成果转化为临床实践。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，这些项目将作为老年护理研究中大规模外部资助项目的基础。3. 提供一个刺激的合作环境，使老年护理领域的高级研究人员和他们的跨学科同行能够继续茁壮成长；4. 促进知识从学术转移到：a)实践（长期护理，社区为基础的，和急症护理）设置，和b)更广泛的科学界。5. 为研究人员提供以老年学为中心的研究设计和方法培训机会。6. 加强伙伴学校（主要在中西部）教师之间的合作关系，从而获得更多样化的内容和方法专业知识，获得更广泛和异质的老年主题，并促进多地点研究；7. 在联盟学校中描述和实施三种类型的伙伴关系（强化、同伴和指导）。

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.