State of the World in Nursing Research

Klopper, Hester C.; Gasanganwa, M C

doi:10.4314/rj.v2i2.2f

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“…This literature review of research published in Africa covered a 10-year period, from 2007 to 2017. It is reassuring to see the increase in the number of nurses and midwives who are leading on research in Africa as supported by the historical review by Klopper and Gasanganwa (2015), but disappointing to note the paucity of African nurses and midwives' authors.…”

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Nursing and Midwifery Research Output in Africa: A Review of the Literature

Nabirye¹,

Kinengyere²,

Edwards³

2018

Int J Childbirth

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BACKGROUNDNurses and midwives form the backbone of health service delivery and satisfaction with care often depends on the competencies of nurses and midwives who provide the care (World Health Organization [WHO], 2002). Healthcare has become complex, challenging, and demanding across diverse sociocultural and socioeconomic changes and environments. To optimize their impact, nurses and midwives therefore need to be prepared with evidence-based competences. Nursing research therefore, is the cornerstone for evidence-based practice and for establishing the professional status of nursing and building research capacity. However, although nursing research began in the 19th century, it is limited in Africa, with little evidence generated to inform policy and practice. Although nursing and midwifery education in the region has advanced with graduate and postgraduate level education, little is known about nursing and midwifery research conducted in universities and where to find such research.OBJECTIVESThe literature review aimed at quantifying and identifying the types and gaps in nursing and midwives' research and publications in Africa.METHODSArticles published between January 1, 2007 and January 31, 2017 were retrieved from PubMed and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) with a search strategy that employed four sets of terms: (a) terms identifying published research done by nurses or midwives, or both; (b) terms identifying types of publications; (c) terms identifying filters for African countries; and (d) filters for publication dates. We also searched Google Scholar to capture nonindexed sources.RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONSThere is evidence of an increasing number of African nurses and midwives publishing research; however, much of this research may not be readily available. The promotion of nursing research and capacity building/mentorship in research for nurses and midwives is recommended to increase nurses' and midwives' skills to critically evaluate research and apply the best evidence to their practice.

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Nursing and Midwifery Research Output in Africa: A Review of the Literature

Nabirye¹,

Kinengyere²,

Edwards³

2018

Int J Childbirth

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“…While several countries do offer funding (some nursing-specific) and clinical academic career pathways, many first world countries still lack understanding of them and do not offer funding opportunities or pathways (Carrick-sen et al, 2019). Likewise, building nursing research capacity in low-to middle-income countries, where nurse-led care would increase access to healthcare, is also a challenge (Klopper & Gasanganwa, 2015).…”

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“…The main challenges in pursuing a nursing clinical academic career are common internationally. Alongside a continuing underappreciation of the value of clinical academic careers in clinical practice (van Oostveen et al, 2017;Trusson et al, 2019), there is generally a lack of strong visible clinical academic leadership and organisational support (Logan et al, 2016;van Oostveen et al, 2017), a deficit of career opportunities and post-doctoral positions (Klopper & Gasanganwa, 2015;van Oostveen et al, 2017;Baltruks & Callaghan, 2018;de Lange et al, 2019;Baltruks et al, 2020), and a shortage of appropriate mentorship and guidance (Al-Nawafleh et al, 2013;de Lange et al, 2019;Iles-smith & Ersser, 2019). This results in almost half of doctorally prepared nurses stopping undertaking research due to a lack of appropriate research culture (Al-Nawafleh et al, 2013).…”

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“…This results in almost half of doctorally prepared nurses stopping undertaking research due to a lack of appropriate research culture (Al-Nawafleh et al, 2013). Furthermore, despite recommendations that nurses should be encouraged to commence a clinical academic career early in their career (Institute of Medicine, 2011; Ketefian & Redman, 2015), nurses are on average between 40-50 years of age when they complete their PhD (Klopper & Gasanganwa, 2015;Ketefian & Redman, 2015;Trusson et al, 2019) and feel actively discouraged from starting earlier (Trusson et al, 2019).…”

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Embedding post‐doctoral clinical academic careers in practice: The St Bartholomew’s Hospital model

Sanders

Malcolmson

Jones

et al. 2021

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and Objectives:In order to retain and develop pre-doctoral and doctoral staff, we sought to establish and implement a model for supporting postdoctoral clinical academic careers at our hospital.Background: Doctorally-prepared nurses can raise clinical practice standards, but there is a deficit of career opportunities and post-doctoral positions. This will inevitably impact delivering the evidence for improving patient outcomes and service delivery. It is therefore imperative that post-doctoral nursing and allied professional post-doctoral clinical academic career opportunities are developed and embedded in practice. Design: We describe the development and implementation of a model to provide and embed post-doctoral clinical academic roles at our hospital. Methods: A multidisciplinary group devised the model which was approved by the Hospital Executive Board. Results: The model includes having a bespoke plan for each individual, planning the post-doctoral role at time of PhD planning, providing 1 day a week protected research time for a minimum of 12 months after PhD completion, having an appropriate honorary academic contract at a partner University, and providing integrated clinical and academic supervision throughout. Other key components include senior clinical and Executive Board support and an existing vibrant research culture at our organisation. Conclusions: The St Bartholomew's Hospital model, focusing on individualised posts integrating clinical and academic roles to address service needs, offers a novel approach to supporting post-doctoral clinical academic careers in a clinical setting.

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“…Current evidence suggests low levels of nursing research in low and middle countries compared to high income countries (Fain, 2017). The state of the world nursing report by Klopper and Gasanganwa (2015), suggested low levels of scientific research output in lower and middle-income countries compared to high income countries based on scientific papers published and the number of PhDs produced per year. A scoping review by Sun and Larson (2015), using traditional methods of searching peer reviewed and indexed literature to determine nursing and midwifery research conducted in 54 African countries, suggested low levels of clinical nursing and midwifery research in African countries.…”

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A bibliometric analysis of nursing and midwifery research in the Caribbean

Kahwa

Dodd

Conklin

et al. 2022

J of Nursing Scholarship

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To determine the research output of Caribbean nurses and midwives. Methods:We searched the Scopus database to identify publications by Caribbean nurses and midwives during the period 2000-2020. Publications were included in the analysis if they had at least one author who was either a nurse or midwife and affiliated with a Caribbean geographic location. All publication types and languages were included in the analysis. Organization analysis and collaboration networks were created using the VOS Viewer application. Findings:The number of Scopus publications by Caribbean nurses and midwives progressively grew from 22 in 2000 to 584 in 2020. Cuba recorded the highest number of nursing research publications (319) followed by Jamaica (92), and Puerto Rico (59). Most publishing institutions were universities. The University of the West Indies (Jamaica) ranked highest with 15.2% of publications, followed by Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana with 14.4% of publications, Universidad de Puerto Rico ranked third with 9.8% of publications. The majority of publications (83.6%) were peer reviewed research articles, while review articles accounted for 9.8% of publications. Six out of the ten journals that published most research done by Caribbean nurse researchers were Cuban journals which published a total of n = 250 (75.8%) articles. All six journals had no impact factor and had low cite scores.Conclusions: Our analysis of bibliometric indicators suggest that recent and steady growth in nursing and midwifery research in the Caribbean has had low visibility.Equipping nurses and midwives with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead, teach, and conduct high quality research through doctorate level education is an imperative for increasing research productivity among Caribbean nurses and midwives. Clinical relevance:Nursing and midwifery research is critical for evidence-based nursing and midwifery practice. High quality and context specific research evidence will enable Caribbean nurses and midwives to provide quality and culturally sensitive nursing and midwifery care and contribute to evidence informed policy decisions.

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State of the World in Nursing Research

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Nursing and Midwifery Research Output in Africa: A Review of the Literature

Nursing and Midwifery Research Output in Africa: A Review of the Literature

Embedding post‐doctoral clinical academic careers in practice: The St Bartholomew’s Hospital model

A bibliometric analysis of nursing and midwifery research in the Caribbean

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