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Research Development in the Clinical Field

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This chapter will describe clinical-nursing leadership and discuss how the collaboration between nurse leaders, nursing researchers, and clinical nurses can provide a foundation for a strong research culture in the clinical field. In particular, it will demonstrate the close connection between strategic leadership, quality development involving bedside clinicians, and focused clinical research in the intensive care unit (ICU) nursing service. Research ideas and topics originate from the clinical practices related to ICU patients’ daily challenges during treatment in the ICU as well as in the nursing interventions that address these patients’ needs. The focus has been on designing clinically relevant studies that respond to research questions in order to improve ICU patients’ survival and comfort, decrease their symptom burden, and minimise the length of their stay. A major emphasis has been placed on implementation strategies and on applying the research results in their original settings.

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  1. Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Hilde Wøien

  2. Department of Postoperative and Intensive Care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Hilde Wøien & Sigrid Rannem

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  1. Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir

  2. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

  3. Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Olso, Norway

    Marit Kirkevold

  4. Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Helena Leino-Kilpi

  5. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Kirsten Lomborg

  6. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

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Wøien, H., Rannem, S. (2019). Research Development in the Clinical Field. In: Hafsteinsdóttir, T., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K., Rahm Hallberg, I. (eds) Leadership in Nursing: Experiences from the European Nordic Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_15

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