Multiple Morbidities in Vulnerable Populations: Nurse Scientist Training

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的博士前和博士后培训计划为追求研究职业的护士提供研究培训，重点关注具有多种疾病的弱势群体。多种疾病的共存在弱势人群中更为常见，它给整体健康状况、功能能力和生活质量带来了复合负担。科学家需要具备必要的知识和技能，以应对与对患有多种疾病的人进行研究相关的复杂现象的研究。需要从多个研究领域转换概念模型和方法，以及整合多个跨学科的观点、方法和分析水平。需要使用新的定性和定量程序来分析多种疾病和治疗效果的机制和相互作用、疾病的聚类以及已知混杂因素的影响。一支受过专业训练的研究人员队伍，能够在多种疾病的弱势群体之间和群体内部开展研究，对于缩小种族和族裔之间的健康差距至关重要。为了加强研究人员的文化多样性，我们正在与塔拉哈西的一所历史悠久的黑人大学——佛罗里达农业与机械（A&M）护理学院合作。我们将招收来自佛罗里达农工大学的少数族裔学员进入我们的快速通道BSN到博士项目，我们的传统和夏季博士项目，以及博士后培训。这项合作还包括两所大学之间的教师交流和视频会议，以进行教育和研究活动。基于博尔顿学院在博士教育和研究方面的优势，该NRSA将在5年内支持12名博士前研究员和6名博士后。该计划包括：课程作业，培训研讨会，监督研究实习和独立研究。教师包括国内和国际知名的经验丰富的研究人员和一些有前途的新研究人员在护理，医学，流行病学，生理学，社会学和心理学。他们的个人和集体研究为博士后和前研究员的合作和独立研究提供了充分的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed predoctoral and postdoctoral training program provides research training for nurses pursuing research careers focused on vulnerable populations with multiple morbidities. The coexistence of multiple conditions is more common in vulnerable populations and it confers a compounding burden on overall health status, functional ability, and quality of life. Scientists need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to tackle the study of the complex phenomena associated with research with persons with multiple morbidities. The translation of conceptual models and methods from several fields of study is needed as well as the integration of multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and levels of analyses. The use of new qualitative and quantitative procedures is needed to analyze mechanisms and interactions of multiple morbidities and treatment effects, the clustering of morbidities, and the influence of known confounders. A cadre of expertly trained researchers, who can conduct research among and within vulnerable populations with multiple morbidities, is crucial to closing the racial and ethnic disparities health gap. To enhance the cultural diversity of the research workforce, we are collaborating with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) School of Nursing, a historically black university in Tallahassee. We will recruit minority trainees from Florida A&M into our fast-track BSN to PhD program, our traditional and summer PhD programs, and for postdoctoral training. This collaboration also will involve faculty exchanges and video conferencing between the universities for educational and research activities. Building on the Bolton School's strengths in doctoral education and research, this NRSA will support 12 predoctoral fellows and 6 postdoctoral students over 5 years. The program consists of: coursework, training seminars, supervised research practicum and independent research. Faculty includes nationally and internationally known seasoned investigators and several promising newer investigators in nursing, medicine, epidemiology, physiology, sociology and psychology. Their individual and collective research gives ample opportunity for collaborative and independent investigation by the pre and post doctoral fellows.