@article{59e0cce846cd409eaea301ece9743cdd,
title = "Developing an infrastructure to support clinical academic careers",
abstract = "Research and evidence-based practice underpins the delivery of high-quality patient care. Developing the research capacity and capability of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals requires a robust emphasis and the necessary support infrastructure to encourage and develop practitioners to follow a clinical academic career pathway. Clinical academic partnerships between higher education and healthcare institutions can offer a blend of required expertise with mutual benefits. This article reports on a recent Florence Nightingale Foundation and Council of Deans of Health Leadership Scholarship improvement project to establish an infrastructure to support the development of clinical academic roles to enhance the provision of evidence-based patient care in the North East of Scotland.",
keywords = "Clinical academic careers, Clinical academic partnerships, Evidence-based practice, Research",
author = "Karen Strickland",
note = "Funding Information: the UK. Most initiatives have focused on developing NMAHP research capacity through the establishment of research training schemes supported by academic departments in partnership and linked to clinical settings, for example the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Fellowship Programme and the Early Career Clinical Fellowships (ECCFs) in Scotland. A focus on developing the roles and career frameworks for the graduates of the research training programmes has resulted in the development of frameworks to support clinical academic careers (Niven, 2009;Weir and Ozga, 2010; NHS Education for Scotland, 2011; Department of Health, 2012). Funding Information: grant writing support and project planning support. One key difference at HUP was the link to one academic institution; clinical academics had a formal link to the school of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.12968/bjon.2017.26.22.1249",
language = "English",
volume = "26",
pages = "1249--1252",
journal = "British Journal of Nursing",
issn = "0966-0461",
publisher = "MA Healthcare Ltd",
number = "22",
}