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Goals
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Rural Nursing Science -
Facilitating nursing and interdisciplinary research related to management
of chronic health conditions by rural dwellers with a focus on promoting
healthy behaviors, avoiding complications, encouraging self-management,
and supporting the family.
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Capacity Building - Enhance and
strengthen a critical mass of nurse researchers to conduct the rural
health research necessary to inform clinical practice; develop a basis
for human research; provide on-call writing assistance, Research Brown
Bag Sessions, workshops, access to the Western Writing Coercion Group, and
other research skill building opportunities.
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Pilot Program Funding - Provide seed
money to fund essential research projects to lay the foundation for
programs of rural nursing research; teach and strengthen skills related to
grant proposal preparation, grant management, conducting research, and
dissemination of research results.
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Infrastructure Development - Enhance
the research infrastructure to provide resources for existing programs of
nursing research, nurture focused research on chronic health conditions in
rural dwellers efforts among faculty, and increase the intensity of
nursing and interdisciplinary research.
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Linkages - Create interdisciplinary and inter-institutional
regional linkages to expand and enhance the scope of nursing science
and to improve the health of rural dwellers.
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