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- Title
A Collaboration Challenge: Interdisciplinary Clinical Research by Faculty in Non-Research-Focused Colleges and Universities.
- Authors
Broscious, Sharon K.; Darby, Michele; Loftin, Kann C.
- Abstract
Conducting research in the clinical arena is a challenging endeavor, both because the researchers have limited control over the environment and because of the high level of collaboration needed between the researchers and the clinical staff in the research setting. It becomes even more complex when the research involves an interdisciplinary research team whose members' primary responsibility is their teaching and teaching-related activities. Yet involvement of both faculty and students in research is important. This article describes some of the challenges related to the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary research team consisting of faculty members, students, and health care agency staff. Being aware of these challenges in planning interdisciplinary clinical research, and making plans early on to meet these challenges, can minimize the untoward effects of these challenges on a study's outcomes. These challenges include finding an appropriate clinical site, gaining entrance to the site, establishing staff-researcher relationships, recruiting participants, involving students in the study, finding the time needed for the study, collecting the data, and obtaining adequate funding. The authors conclude that the funding challenge has the most significant impact on the ability of a faculty research team to collaborate on a research study in a clinical setting. Suggestions for meeting these challenges and enhancing the collaboration between the research team and clinical site are included.
- Publication
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1091-3734
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3912/OJIN.Vol13No01PPT02