Goals

Sub goals

Strategies

Promote a community of individuals interested in advancing nursing research in the Northeast region of the United States.

1. Encourage networking
2. Increase membership from clinically-based master's degree RNs
3. Establish a public image of nursing as a scientific discipline
4. Promote ENRS uniqueness by coordinating with other nursing organizations

• Support /communicate collaborative efforts; ENRS Directory; Interest Groups; Marketing plan.
• Disseminate targeted information on research to the lay public; appoint group to pursue. Use to obtain regional funding.
• Compare our goals with these organization; decrease redundant efforts and identify similarities and differences.

Facilitate development of nurse researchers.

1. Provide opportunities to increase knowledge.
2. Promote career socialization.
3. Encourage mentoring.

• Accomplish through Interest Groups; presentations and conferences. Offer sessions on applicability for practice, and for findings and tools and methods.
• Provide forum for doctoral students; e.g., funding strategies.
• Contact experts and encourage involvement; sponsor "meet the expert" forums or workshops, including from NCNR; hold special sessions and consultations at annual conference; identify our senior experts, starting at the next conference; distribute Survey Directory.

Influence development of scientific knowledge base relevant to Nursing.

1. Identify and disseminate research priorities for the region.
2. Influence policy regarding funding and priorities.
3. Disseminate information on funding resources.

• Coordinate with national priorities; link with national health care agenda; ask Interest groups.
• Participate in research link with ANA, NCNR and National Nurse Research roundtable relative to "lobby" needs
• Draw from NCNR resources; use our newsletter.

Promote research-based nursing practice.

1. Increase clinically-based members
2. Facilitate dialogue on competencies and curricular expectations with both academic & service administrators
3. Promote dissemination
4. Promote utilization.

• Educate administrators regarding basic expectations and competencies for research via levels of staff.
• Encourage research utilization in curricula; identify prototypes and develop a document through the Evidence-Based Practice Interest Group, which can each establish tools and methods.
• Accomplish via conferences; encourage abstracts that include RU and access accordingly; have symposia on "state of the art."
• Encourage sessions of RU as findings and process; support related grants