# Setting a Strategic Framework to Maximize the Impact of Clinically Based Nurse Researchers

> **NIH AHRQ R13** · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · 2024 · $49,993

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Nurses play a vital role in optimizing safety, quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability across healthcare
settings. The nursing profession has invested in expanding clinical and comparative effectiveness research to
explore best practices, and translational research and implementation science to integrate evidence into
practice. Clinically based nurse researchers (CBNR) emerged as part of this effort with the goal of bridging the
gap between nursing research and nursing practice. Distinct from nurse researchers who work in traditional
academic roles and spaces, CBNR are nurse researchers who have permanent positions within the structure
of clinical practice settings, such as hospitals and health systems. CBNR are uniquely and intentionally
positioned to conduct research that is timely and responsive to emerging needs, and to expedite the integration
of findings into practice. However, multiple barriers limit the scale, scope, speed, and rigor of this critically
needed work. Currently, there are no dedicated professional organizations or scientific meetings to connect the
growing number of CBNR across the country. Thus, there are few opportunities to collectively examine and
strategically address shared challenges, identify common research priorities, or forge tactical partnerships to
facilitate rigorous large-scale multisite research. This two-day research development conference, scheduled
tentatively for June 5-6, 2025, will address the long-term goal of accelerating the scale, scope, speed, and rigor
of research to optimize patient outcomes through nursing care. The conference will unite CBNR and other key
stakeholders, including executive hospital leaders, interdisciplinary research collaborators, and academic
partners from across the United States to accomplish the following specific aims: (1) Identify barriers, potential
solutions, and facilitators to conducting large-scale, comprehensive, timely, and rigorous research in CBNR
roles to optimize patient outcomes through nursing care. (2) Develop a strategic framework to guide CBNR in
generating and translating evidence to improve safety, quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of care
through nursing practice. (3) Establish and sustain a national consortium of CBNR to facilitate dissemination,
implementation, and evaluation of the strategic framework. A conference planning committee consisting of six
CBNR and one executive nurse leader will offer diverse perspectives, experiences, methodological expertise,
programs of research, and professional networks to support the conference aims. The primary outcome of the
conference will be a five-year strategic framework outlining the mission, vision, goals, strategic priorities, and
cross-cutting strategies for CBNR.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11074861
- **Project number:** 1R13HS030192-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
- **Principal Investigator:** Bevin Cohen
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $49,993
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-30 → 2025-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11074861

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11074861, Setting a Strategic Framework to Maximize the Impact of Clinically Based Nurse Researchers (1R13HS030192-01A1). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-28 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/11074861. Licensed CC0.

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