Research at CUSON

With 28 active research grants and sponsored projects totaling over $22 million, the School of Nursing has a strong commitment to research. The School has 32 doctorally prepared faculty members, several NIH-funded pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, and federally-funded training grants in medical informatics; reducing antimicrobial resistance; advanced nursing education; and nurse anesthesia.

In the past 5 years, faculty members have received federally funded and foundation grants in HIV/AIDS in adults and children, clinical outcomes, health policy and health services research, home hygiene, cancer research, cardiac telehealth and genetics, prison nurseries, antimicrobial resistance, informatics, patient safety, health economics, and self-management research.

The range of research interests at the School of Nursing is reflected by its academic and research centers: the WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing, the Center for Health Policy, the Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved, the Center for Children and Families, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance

By expanding research and scholarly capacity, the School of Nursing strives to attain international renown for high-quality scholarship, particularly in collaborative research between clinicians and researchers within nursing and across disciplines.

Office of Scholarship and Research
The Office of Scholarship and Research is the focal point for the school’s research enterprise, supporting and promoting faculty and pre/post-doctoral students

Training and Seminars
The Office of Research Resources offers continuing education and research training opportunities as well as an annual research seminar series. Supplemental educational information is also available. Topics and dates of seminars are listed here.

Centers
The School of Nursing is home to four research centers: the Center for Children and Families, the Center for Evidence-Based Practice, the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance. All centers function independently and are concerned with the areas of research with which they were commissioned.