Week 2 Activities
| Objective 9: Identify nursing organizations represented on the Worldwide Web and the organizations' research missions. |
The purpose of this three-part activity is to give you the opportunity to explore nursing research at the SON and on the Worldwide Web and assess its relevance to your practice. Please post the assignment to your group's discussion board no later than midnight on Tuesday, September 12.
Part I:
Go to the Web site
for one of the clinical nursing organizations. Below is a partial list
of such sites and their Web addresses (links open in a new window):
| http://www.awhonn.org/ | Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing |
| http://www.nann.org/ | National Association of Neonatal Nurses |
| http://www.aacn.org/ | American Association of Critical Care Nurses |
| http://www.geron.org/ | Gerontological Society of America |
| http://www.aann.org/ | American Association of Neuroscience Nurses |
| http://anna.inurse.com/ | American Nephrology Nurses Association |
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http://www.nursingworld.org/ |
American Nurses Association |
| http://www.apna.org/ | American Psychiatric Nurses Association |
| http://www.anacnet.org/ | Association of Nurses in Aids Care |
| http://www.aorn.org/ | Association of Operating Room Nurses |
| http://www.apon.org/ | Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses |
| http://www.rehabnurse.org | Association of Rehabilitation Nurses |
| http://www.ena.org/ | Emergency Nurses Association |
| http://www.ins1.org/ | Intravenous Nurses Society |
| http://naon.inurse.com/ | National Association of Orthopedic Nurses |
| http://www.wocn.org/ | Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Association |
| http://www.stti.iupui.edu/ | Sigma Theta Tau International, Inc. Honor Society of Nursing |
You may identify another organization. If you do, please include the Web address in your paper.
- First review the Web site and identify any information that relates to research. This might include evidence-based projects, support for research through small grants, research-based meetings, or call for research abstracts for annual meetings.
- If you can go to the library, look at the journal of the organization and determine the extent to which the journal publishes research.
Written Assignment (3 single-spaced paragraphs)
- Identify the organization you evaluated.
- Discuss what you found.
- Write an analysis about the strength or limitations of this organization's focus on research.
- Discuss ways in which this organization might enhance their focus on research to meet the needs of practicing nurses more effectively.
| Objective 10: Describe aspects of the National Institute of Nursing Research's (NINR) mission, goals, and funding and the relevance to your practice. |
Activity 2
Go to the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research web site:
Study the Web site carefully including News and Information, Nurse Researchers in the News Nursing Research, New Directions for the 21st Century, and list of grants funded.
Written Assignment (2-3 single-spaced paragraphs)
1. Describe an aspect of what you found, such as the mission, goals and funding, or the future directions of NINR.
2. Was there anything that surprised you about the NINR?3. How might the NINR’s research apply (or not) to your future practice?
Activity 3
UNC School of
Nursing
- Go to
the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Nursing Web site. Explore the Web site,
especially the
Written Assignment: (2-3 single spaced paragraph)
1. Briefly write about three key things you learned
related to research in the
2. Was there anything that surprised you?
3. Is there an area of nursing care or practice that you think the SON should be researching actively?