1. Building PHN Scientists
Carolyn L. Blue, RN, PhD, CHES
Community Practice Department
School of Nursing
The University of North Greensboro

2. Presenter Disclosures
Carolyn L. Blue I have no relationships to disclose.

3. Highlights from the National Scientific Agenda
Science-based decisions
Collaborative research teams (interdisciplinary and public-private partnerships)
Translating medical science to public health benefits
Focus on prevention and health promotion
Public health systems research
Policy research
Shift from “pure” research to problem-oriented, applied research

4. Health Care Reform: What it Means for PHN Research
Comparative clinical effectiveness research
Service delivery, care management, and client outcomes
Expenditures associated with community prevention practices
Patient needs, outcomes, and preferences of care
Evidence building from systematic review of existing research
Quality improvement in health care service delivery
Quality and efficiency of care
Measures to establish “best practices”
Translational research from academia to community settings
Data collection and analysis to understand health disparities

5. Educating for comparative clinical effectiveness research
Theory-driven intervention design
Statistical and other analytic methods
Health informatics
Instrumentation
Subgroup analysis

6. Educating for quality improvement in health care service delivery
Systems analysis
Markets, management, & business practices
Health policy process
Health economics
Evidence-based “best practices”
Embed leadership competencies

7. Educating for translational research
Experiences that foster collaborative partnerships and networks
Academic partnering with community groups and stakeholders
Transdisciplinary partnering
Workforce socialized to partner with scientists in academia

8. Educating for data collection and analysis to understand health disparities
Epidemiology
Healthy People indicators &objectives
Research design
Statistics
Ethical principles

9. DNP vs. PHD Education for PHN Science Development
Clinically intensive career
Engages in practice based on evidence
Practice-oriented clinical investigations (e.g., outcome research)
PHD:
Research intensive career
Engages in research to generate new knowledge
Broad spectrum of investigations relevant to PHN
“Win-win” when the two collaborate!!!

10. Socialization of Nurse Scientists
Establish a research culture
Mentor students for immersion into science
Advance information technology as tools to 1) engage in public health measurable objectives of importance and 2) promote population health.
Encourage publication practices and authorship.
Encourage intellectual curiosity about the research others have conducted.
Follow new developments in public health and public health nursing
Insist on ethical conduct in research involving humans.
Noncompetative environment (resist pressure to produce poor science)
Personal responsibility

11. Habits of the Mind Basic desire for discovery
Respect for others’ research
Willingness to examine own’s research critically and objectively
Discrimination between knowledge and subjective beliefs
Willingness to change one’s own mind if evidence warrants it
Willingness to challenge science
Willingness to subject one’s research to peer review
Willingness to take intellectual risks
Tolerance for nonsignificant findings
Understand the purpose of research is to improve population health
Value co-learning and capacity building among community partners
Seek novel approaches to address research questions
Note. From American Academy of Health Behavior WorkGroup on Doctoral Research Training. (2005). A vision for doctoral research training in health behavior: A position paper from the American Academy of Health Behavior. American Journal of Health Behavior, 29(6),

12. What does Rausch recommend???
The community of PHN researchers make recommendations for progress based on research.
It is beneficial to PHN science to critique and debate findings.
Questioning and challenging current ideas is healthy to moving PHN science forward.
It is proper to discuss controversial ideas (without penalty).

13. Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off the spark in one another Florence Nightengale