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从事研究职业的护士提供研究培训，重点是具有多种发病率的弱势群体。多种疾病的并存在弱势群体中更为常见，它对总体健康状况、功能能力和生活质量造成了复合负担。科学家需要具备必要的知识和技能，以处理与患有多种疾病的人的研究相关的复杂现象的研究。翻译的概念模型和方法，从几个研究领域是必要的，以及多学科的观点，方法和分析水平的整合。需要使用新的定性和定量程序来分析多种发病率和治疗效果的机制和相互作用、发病率的聚集以及已知混杂因素的影响。一支训练有素的研究人员队伍，他们可以在患有多种疾病的弱势群体之间和内部进行研究，对于缩小种族和民族差异的健康差距至关重要。为了提高研究人员的文化多样性，我们正在与佛罗里达农业和机械（A & M）护理学院，在塔拉哈西历史上的黑人大学合作。我们将从佛罗里达A & M招募少数民族学员进入我们的快速通道BSN博士课程，我们的传统和夏季博士课程，并进行博士后培训。这种合作还将涉及大学之间的教师交流和视频会议，以开展教育和研究活动。建立在博尔顿学校的博士教育和研究的优势，这NRSA将支持12名博士前研究员和6名博士后学生超过5年。该计划包括：课程，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调查人员和几个有前途的新的调查人员在护理，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提供了充足的机会，由前和博士后研究员合作和独立调查。

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.