Research Priorities and Research Profile Institute of Nursing Science & Practice
This research profile conveys an overarching understanding of how research in nursing and health sciences is pursued at the Institute of Nursing Science and Practice. It depicts five research priorities, which frame the institute’s activities in research, practice, and teaching. Against this background, the institute’s nursing, health care, and health services related research draws on up-to-date quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods theories and methodologies. This research profile with its research priorities serves as a guiding framework with a long-term focus.
Research Priority I
Developing professional nurses and advanced nursing roles, educating the next generation of nurse scientists
Research in this area considers alignments with other care providers and practice partners who also contribute to enhancing evidence-based and evidence-informed patient care outcomes within and between different health care sectors. This priority creates a roadmap to connect the science of nursing with the science of other professions and supports inter-professional clinical education and transdisciplinary collaborations. In addition, it also serves to optimise the potential of individuals as change agents and make a difference in people’s lives.
Research Priority II
Enhancing inter-professional cooperation, expanding cross-sectoral care
Research in this area considers alignments with other care providers and practice partners who also contribute to enhancing evidence-based and evidence-informed patient care outcomes within and between different health care sectors. This priority creates a roadmap to connect the science of nursing with the science of other professions and supports inter-professional clinical education and transdisciplinary collaborations. In addition, it also serves to optimise the potential of individuals as change agents and make a difference in people‘s lives.
Research Priority III
Improving public health, advancing health promotion and disease prevention
Research in this area aims to improve health- and nursing related outcomes including pain, age-associated and/or work-related diseases, to enhance the provision of care in different settings using a range of interventions, and to dissolve complex health challenges. Public health research ranges from local to global and involves prevalence, biostatistics, and prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases in all populations, including people with acute, chronic, and/or palliative care needs. Promoting health as a human right as well as the necessity to consider all determinants of health, the improvement of public health and well-being is one of our leading goals.
Research Priority IV
Leading change and improving the quality of care, advancing patient safety and well-being
Research in this area is concerned with the experience of those who are dependent on nursing and health care. We focus on those who require acute, critical, and/or chronic care and who would benefit from access to timely referrals to needs-based care provision including specialist palliative care or advanced practice nursing. In particular, we aim to discover what happens to people, as they recover, rehabilitate, survive or pass away during different episodes of care. We also apply clinical and system leadership to develop health organisations. Drawing from a diverse range of methodologies and theoretical approaches, our research impacts policy, health and care delivery and interventions. The active involvement of patients, the promotion of their health literacy and self-management is a central focus.
Research Priority V
Enhancing innovations in nursing science and practice
Research in this area is concerned with innovations in nursing and health care. It is dedicated to building a culture of innovation and novel management styles in order to put new ideas/knowledge into practice or existing ideas into practice in new ways. Every nurse is an agent of change, an innovator and facilitator – the same applies to the employees within the Institute of Nursing Science and Practice. This research takes a holistic lens to improving the quality and safety of patient care and health outcomes and contributes to the discovery of innovative insights into the broader nursing practice to overcome supply disruptions and avoid supply gaps. Our activities include among others, the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative nursing and care concepts, digital health care and up-to-date assistive technology.
Contact
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Kutschar
Research Coordination and Management at the Institute for Nursing Science and Practice
phone: +43 662 2420-80344
E-Mail: patrick.kutschar@pmu.ac.at
