Technology Research in Chronic and Critical Illness

描述(申请人提供)：使用技术来提供医疗保健和管理慢性病和危重疾病正变得越来越普遍。科技被越来越多地吹捧为改变医疗保健。技术进步的速度，加上社区中患有复杂疾病和残疾的老年人和人的数量迅速增加，使得护士科学家必须准备好在跨学科的背景下研究技术在促进患者更好健康结果方面的关键作用。T32(技术：慢性病和危重病研究)的总体目标是提供严格的研究培训和跨学科的专业社会化，以建立旨在通过技术的帮助促进健康、管理疾病、减少残疾和提高生活质量的护理科学。培训方案的具体目标是：1)提供理论和概念基础，以支持研究方案的发展，该方案审查技术应用可使健康问题得以预防、检测或解决的方式；2)方法技能，以支持学术研究事业的发展；3)在跨学科的背景下促进、支持和维持学术研究的环境；以及4)机会，以确定、开发、评估和将新的技术应用转化为现实世界的护理 练习设置。我们请求继续提供为期5年的机构支助，以便在供资期间为培训博士前和博士后研究员提供最多两年的支助。显然，护士研究人员需要能够检查有效性，以及患者和提供者对高科技健康解决方案的适当性、可接受性和忠诚度，并与有助于此类努力的多个学科合作。毫无疑问，这一计划将使护士实习生能够很好地在这个不断增长的领域进行创新的、最先进的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The use of technology to deliver health care and manage chronic and critical illness is becoming more and more pervasive. Technology is increasingly touted as transforming health care. The speed at which technologies is advancing, combined with the burgeoning number of elders and persons living in the community with complex illnesses and disabilities, make it imperative that nurse scientists be prepared to examine the vital role of technology in promoting better patient health outcomes within an interdisciplinary context. The overarching goal of this T32 (Technology: Research in Chronic and Critical Illness) is to provide rigorous research training and interdisciplinary professional socialization to build nursing science aimed at promoting health, managing illness, reducing disability and enhancing quality of life through the aid of technology. The specific aims of the training program are to provide: 1) the theoretical and conceptual foundation to support the development of a program of research that examines ways that technological applications may enable the prevention, detection or resolution of health problems, 2) the methodological skills to support of the development of an academic research career, 3) an environment that promotes, supports and sustains scholarly inquiry within an interdisciplinary context, and 4) opportunities to identify, develop, evaluate and translate novel technological applications to real-world nursing practice settings. We are requesting continued institutional support for 5 years to provide support for training pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellows for a maximum of two years over the funded period. Clearly, nurse researchers need to be able to examine the effectiveness, as well as the appropriateness, acceptability, and adherence of patients and providers to high-tech health solutions and collaborate with the multiple disciplines that contribute to such efforts. Unquestionably, this program will enable nurse trainees to be well-positioned to conduct innovative, state-of-the-art research in this growing field.