Hospitals and faculties together for prosperous and scientific based healthcare Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hospitals and faculties together for prosperous and scientific based healthcare

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

In contemporary healthcare, nurses need to be users and generators of evidence to underpin their practice. As users of evidence they need to be able to locate evidence and critically appraise it. As generators of evidence nurses need to be able to research their own practice and translate those findings into practice. The overall aim of this project is to raise the profile of research in nursing by increasing both research capacity and capability and to enhance cooperation between higher education institution and hospitals. This has the ultimate aim to provide care to patients and families consistent with the best available evidence thereby improving patient outcomes (CMFT 2009). This project addresses two complex issues: the lack of research knowledge among RNs and poor research alliance between hospitals and HEIs. The project consortium consists of hospitals and HEIs that will address these issues jointly. The profile of research in nursing will be raised by increasing both research capacity and capability. Nursing research knowledge alliance will be encouraged through 5 identified objectives:1. to build infrastructure with research leadership that will support a research active environment (analysing nursing work environment and enablers/barriers in facilitating nurses to do research, establishing nursing research groups/units; identifying research mentors within the hospitals and linked researchers at HEI); 2. to improve access to research training and support opportunities (developing online learning programme on nursing research);3. to identify research priorities in practice and link in with HEI to address them jointly4. to encourage intra-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary & inter-agency research collaborations (research group establishment; journal clubs);5. to raise the profile of research conducted by nurses to internal and external organisations (encouraging nurses to submit abstracts to conferences, journals and improve research writing skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 988983 Eur

Project Coordinator

FAKULTETA ZA ZDRAVSTVO ANGELE BOSKIN & Country: SI

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
• CLINICA VISTAHERMOSA GRUPO HLA SL
• SPLOSNA BOLNISNICA JESENICE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE
• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
• AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA FRIULI CENTRALE