Benefits of a Unified Research Agenda
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Assignment Debrief
Michael Kaufman: We’ll be working in this environment for the next couple of days. You’ll learn more about that tomorrow. Tonight we want to know about what you wrote on your post-it notes. What kind of things did you talk about and what are the benefits for having a unified research agenda?
• Sharing and pooling resources
• Collecting surveys at a greater scale
• Broadens the expertise
• Lends credibility to the research
• Pulls together a more unified body
• Benchmarking across disciplines
• Improving and sharing definitions and measures across organizations
• Improves the strength of the research
• More people to help disseminate results
• Ultimately it improves patient outcomes
• Strength in numbers
• We have to get consensus around definitions.
MK: Dr. Deming says that just having an operational definition will improve quality. You don’t have to agree; you just have to decide on a definition in use. Anything else?
• When you have a large sample we get better improvements in our demographics. We get cross-sectional research. We can call it sub-group analysis.
MK: For an individual to be self-aware is challenging. For an organization to be self-aware is extremely difficult. If we can raise the level of knowledge of our entire industry that would be fantastic. What else?
• We can better inform the consumer
• It’s going to be international in scope
• Getting to critical mass of knowledge
• Not only what the outcomes are but the perception of nursing related to those.
• With the research agenda we can help policy long-term
• Create a collective mind
• Success creates momentum
• Improving the body of knowledge will help us discover things we don’t know right now
• We have an opportunity to look at our past and connect to patient outcomes
• We have a chance to inform our business decision-making processes
MK: There is some potential value to learn from each other.
- Until the organization values us, we need to be able to show our value
- What about the approval process? Wouldn’t the research agenda help us with this?
- We need to learn about what we need to know. With more people involved we have more connections with people who are doing good research already
- We don't want to be duplicating what has already been done but moving forward
- I want to understand the certification process so that I can be as valid as someone else who has the certification
- This probably has impact to the larger health care reform movement
- We want to reframe the narrative; maybe it can be about the art of nursing?
MK: So tomorrow we’re going to start at 8AM. Breakfast will be at 7:30AM. On your way out, put your stickies on this board with the mind map. Try to place them where they make sense. See you in the morning!
Click here to open the list of post-its (.xls).
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