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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Prof Nurs. 2016 Mar 21;32(6):412–420. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.03.008

Table 1.

Learning Objectives for Each of the Nursing Research Roles

Overall objectives

  1. Identify strategies to answer questions in clinical nursing practice.

  2. Describe the role(s) of the nurse in the research environment.

Nursing researcher immersion: and application of research, EBP, and QI

  1. Identify the steps of the research process within clinical and translational research experiences

  2. Identify ethical and regulatory precepts within the research design for clinical or translational studies

  3. Conduct a focused review of the research using library resources

  4. Critique and interpret the results of published studies

  5. Describe how to ensure collecting and reporting reliable and valid data

  6. Participate in data entry

  7. Participate in data analysis

  8. Prepare an abstract for poster or paper presentation

Clinical trials research nursing

  1. Describe the nursing process for participants in clinical research

  2. Differentiate the 3 phases of clinical trials research

  3. Describe strategies to identify potential participants in research

  4. Describe how a clinical trial is approved managed and implemented

  5. Name the tenets and regulatory requirements specific to the protection of human subjects

  6. Identify the basic elements of informed consent for research