1. Developing research capacity and capability in the nursing workforce Liz Lees Senior Research Fellow – Nursing. The Faculty Are U READY?

2. WHERE ARE WE NOW? 1. Staff within Faculty 2. Corporate Nursing 3. Midru 4. Organizational expertise 5. Potential collaborations (Clinical Academic Careers Group)

3. T HE INDIVIDUAL

4. THE INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANISATION The Vision so far ORGANISATIONAL FOUNDATION CAPABILITY PYRAMID OF DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY CONCEPT TO REALITY EXPERTISE THE RESEARCH STRATEGY FUNDING

5. Getting the foundations right ….. CAPABILITY Understand what knowledge is ‘out there’ Skills analysis at ward level Roll out a Research Toolkit – ward level Develop a repository for completed work Frame future module topics for research against organizational objectives

6. Are you ready ?? CAPACITY BUILDING: Y =Year on yearD =deliveryA =applicationE =evaluatingR =readingU = understanding

7. EXPERTISE: ‘CONCEPT TO REALITY’’ Better use of information routinely gathered Focus a research question (s) Advise on design and methods Guide proposals Analysis Design questionnaires

8. E XPERTISE Develop key pieces of research Systematically Credible high quality research Learning Beyond Registration Evaluation of VITAL 3 Discharge plans Collaborative education research with Birmingham University

9. THE GLUE HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER – Strategic plans! We will need to collaborate, well planned resourced – research grants and teams that have success rate. Engage teams Funding Clearly focused research themes - reputation Tackle antipathy – so what does it mean to me! …

10. A NY Q UESTIONS ?