Using Nursing Research to Shape Health Policy

Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1988, first as an extramural research program administrator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), then as a member of the NIH Task Force for Medical Rehabilitation Research and assistant director of NINDS, until 1995, when she was appointed director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, is dean emeritus and professor emeritus, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and dean emeritus and professor, University of Michigan School of Nursing, where she served as dean from 1994 to 2006. She was also the first permanent director of the National Center of Nursing Research and the first director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Contents


Contributors


Foreword Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, MPH, JD


Preface


Acknowledgments


SECTION I: EMERGING AREAS SHAPING HEALTH POLICY


1. Policy Directives, Scientific Challenges, and Patterns


Patricia A. Grady and Ada Sue Hinshaw


2. Expanding Areas of Clinical and Basic Sciences


Ann K. Cashion and Joan K. Austin


3. Implementation Science


Marita Titler and Clayton Shuman


4. Integration of Genomics in Nursing Research


Janet K. Williams


5. Team Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century


Alma Vega and Mary D. Naylor


6. Data Science


Suzanne Bakken


SECTION II: EXAMPLES OF NURSING SCIENCE SHAPING HEALTH POLICY


7. Self-Management of Illness in Teens


Margaret Grey and Kaitlyn Rechenberg


8. Self-Management of Illness in Adults


Barbara Riegel, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, and Christopher S. Lee


9. Integration of Genomics in Nursing Research: An Example


Karen E. Wickersham and Susan G. Dorsey


10. Gastrointestinal Symptom Science and Assessment


Margaret M. Heitkemper and Wendy A. Henderson


11. Caring for Caregivers in an Aging Society: Contributions of Nursing Research to Practice and Policy


Laura N. Gitlin


12. Aging in Place: Adapting the Environment


Marilyn J. Rantz, Kari R. Lane, Lori L. Popejoy, Colleen Galambos, Lorraine J. Phillips, Lanis Hicks, Greg Alexander, Laurel Despins, Richelle Koopman, Marjorie Skubic, Mihail Popescu, and James Keller


13. Aging in Place: Innovative Teams


Sarah L. Szanton


14. Chronic Illness: Addressing Hypertension and Health Disparities in Communities


Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Martha Hill, and Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb


15. Chronic Illness: Promoting Cardiovascular Health in Socioeconomically Austere Rural Areas


Debra K. Moser


16. Chronic Illness: Telehealth Approaches to Wellness


Stanley Finkelstein and Rhonda Cady


17. Palliative and End-of-Life Care Issues in Adults: The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program


Susan E. Hickman


18. Nursing Research and Health Policy Through the Lens of Pediatric Palliative, Hospice, and End-of-Life Care


Kim Mooney-Doyle, Lisa C. Lindley, and Pamela S. Hinds


19. Palliative and End-of-Life Care Issues: Policy Perspective


Jeri L. Miller


SECTION III: CONCLUSIONS: NURSING RESEARCH—FRAMING THE FUTURE


20. Expanding Health Care Policy: The Ties That Bind


Ada Sue Hinshaw and Patricia A. Grady


Index