Technology Research in Chronic and Critical Illness

描述（由申请人提供）：使用技术来提供医疗保健和管理慢性和危重疾病正变得越来越普遍。越来越多的人认为科技正在改变医疗保健。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做好准备，在跨学科的背景下研究技术在促进患者更好的健康结果方面的重要作用。该T32（技术：慢性和危重疾病研究）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，以建立护理科学，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。培训计划的具体目标是提供：1)理论和概念基础，以支持研究项目的发展，研究技术应用可能使预防，检测或解决健康问题的方法，2)方法技能，以支持学术研究事业的发展，3)在跨学科背景下促进，支持和维持学术探究的环境，4)机会识别，发展，评估和翻译新的技术应用到现实世界的护理

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.