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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Nursing Research
Nursing Research’s vision is to provide hope, eliminate suffering, and contribute to exceptional care through new knowledge.
The emphasis of Nursing Research is to make innovative changes in direct patient care in an effort to improve patient outcomes, most specifically quality of life and symptom distress. Nursing Research’s goal is to prevent or minimize suffering and to foster hope for patients and families during the cancer experience.
The research findings from this department have contributed to positive changes in standards of care for patients and families and to improvements in the continuing education of health care professionals. Here are just a few examples of changes in standards of care Nursing Research has made as a result of nursing research:
- How platelets are administered
- Timing for stripping chest tubes
- How blood samples are collected from tunneled venous access devices
- How blood samples for coagulation studies are collected
- How nursing role-related stress and meaning are measured
- How patient pain and fatigue are measured
Ongoing nursing research studies
How nurses can participate:
- All St. Jude nurses participate in clinical and outcomes research, and many are part of nursing research initiatives.
- Nurses can offer research proposals to the Patient Care Services Research Council. The Council also does surveys to gather new research ideas. Twenty-four new staff-generated ideas are being considered for study this year. These ideas involve quality improvement, patterns of patient behavior under a protocol, pure research, and whatever staff feel is worthwhile.
- Staff may work with the Nursing Research department as a co-investigator on a research project. It’s great experience!
- Student nurses can participate in the POE (Pediatric Oncology Education) program and gain research experience.
- Staff may lead a research project as part of their thesis or dissertation for their Masters or Doctorate degree.
- After a PCS employee has been at St. Jude for 18 months, he or she may apply for an Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship. For one day a month for one year, they work on a Change Practice project. We currently have six fellows in Nursing Research.
Pamela S. Hinds, PhD, RN, CS, is the Director of Nursing Research.
