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| List of Figures | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Discovering the Research to Policy Connection | |
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| Back to the Future: From Evidence to Policy | |
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| Select Examples of Past Policy Changes | |
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| Where Do We Go From Here? The Intersection of Politics and Policy | |
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| Applying Kingdon and Gladwell's Theories to Policy Change by Nurses | |
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| Nursing Outcomes Research: Connections to Workforce Issues and Policy Decisions | |
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| Health Services Research and Nursing Outcomes Research | |
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| Challenges in Nursing Outcomes Research | |
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| Nursing Outcomes Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research | |
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| The Future and the Role of Nursing Outcomes Research | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Toward Evidence-Based Policy: Collecting and Managing the Data | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Addressing the Complexities of Survey Research | |
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| It Is All About the Why: Determining Your Survey Research Topic | |
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| Do You Know What You Are Asking? Common Problems With Survey Questions | |
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| Mail Survey Method: Imperatives and Pitfalls | |
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| Collecting Data by Survey-The Best-Laid Plans Can Go Awry | |
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| Forecasting a State Supply and Demand of RNs Using the Revised 2005 HRSA Models | |
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| The HRSA Nursing Demand and Supply Models | |
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| Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Individual States: Three Approaches | |
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| FCN Experiences in Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Florida | |
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| Summary of FCN Experiences: Lessons Learned in Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Florida and Recommendations for Other States | |
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| Missing Data Effects on Nurse Workforce Analysis and Projections | |
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| Sources and Causes of Missing Data | |
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| Analyzing and Classifying Missingness: The Bias Analysis | |
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| Traditional Methods for Dealing with Missing Data | |
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| Recent Developments in Missing Data Techniques | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Research and Workplace Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Work Satisfaction Among Staff Nurses in Acute Care Hospitals | |
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| Sample | |
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| Methods | |
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| Findings | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| Workload, Quality of Care, and Job Satisfaction in Home Health Nurses | |
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| Background and Significance | |
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| Method | |
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| Findings | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| The Emotional Demands of Nursing | |
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| A Crisis in Nurse Staffing | |
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| Why Nurses Leave Direct Patient Care | |
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| The Emotional Foundations of Burnout | |
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| Methods | |
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| Results | |
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| What Influences Burnout Among Registered Nurses? | |
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| Which Facets of the Emotional Context of Care Might Contribute to an Understanding of Burnout Over and Above the Effect of Individual and Occupational Characteristics? | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Research and Educational Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Nursing's Long-Term Pipeline: A Study of High School Students Using a Unique Data Collection Approach | |
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| North Dakota's Unique Nursing Education History | |
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| Tomorrow's Nursing Pipeline: A Literature Review | |
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| Nursing as a Specific Career Vision in High School | |
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| The High School Student Survey | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The Looming Crisis of an Inadequate Pipeline for Nursing Faculty | |
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| Faculty Supply and Demand | |
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| The Pipeline for Faculty Roles | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Clinical Simulation and the Need for Evidence-Based Policy | |
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| Types of Simulation | |
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| Standardized Patients | |
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| Simulation and Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Funding the Research to Policy Connection | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Of Horses and Ponies: Taking Your Show to Washington | |
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| Why Should I Learn to Dance? | |
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| The Dance: One Step at a Time | |
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| The Federal Budget Process | |
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| AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Nurse Researchers | |
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| AHRQ's Changing Mission | |
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| AHRQ's Research Priorities | |
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| Research Funding Opportunities | |
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| Training and Career Development Programs | |
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| Research Infrastructure Support Programs | |
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| Getting an AHRQ Research Grant | |
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| Overview of the Grant Application Submission, Review, and Award Process | |
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| From Issues to Action: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Influences Health Policy | |
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| Governmental Policy: RWJF's Role in Advancing the Nurse Practitioner Role | |
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| Organizational Policy: Transforming Care at the Bedside | |
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| The Process of Influencing Policy | |
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| Identifying Promising Solutions to Improve Health and Health Care | |
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| Creating the Evidence to Convince Policy Makers to Improve Health and Health Care Policy | |
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| Restrictions on Lobbying: A Delicate Balance | |
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| Building Capacity of Individuals and Institutions | |
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| Conclusion: How RWJF Influences Policy | |
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| A Metaphor for Addressing the Nurse Shortage in Oregon | |
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| Northwest Health Foundation | |
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| Farming and the Relationship to the Nursing Workforce Crisis | |
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| Cultivating the Environment for Nursing | |
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| Planning for Future Crops: Supporting a Nursing Policy Agenda | |
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| Conclusion and Key Findings | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Making the Research to Policy Connection | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Policy Development and Nursing | |
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| Citizenship in a Democracy | |
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| Nurses as Participants in a Democratic Community | |
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| The Power of Numbers | |
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| Politics for Policy | |
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| Beyond Baseline | |
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| State Funding for Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment: The Vermont Experience | |
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| Applying Kingdon's Framework | |
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| The Political Stream | |
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| The Policy Stream | |
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| Using Research to Influence Federal Policy: The Nephrology Nurses' Experience | |
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| The Research-Policy Connection | |
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| The Revised Model in Action | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| From Research to Policy-The Ultimate Translation | |
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| Index | |