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Nurses at CA hospital receive multi-million dollar research grant

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, October 18, 2005

Nurses at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center (UCI) recently received a $2.7 million grant to research the effects of exercise on increased body weight and strength in premature babies. The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Nursing Research and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund the four-year study. The study's co-investigator, a NICU nurse, first proposed that direct-care nurses pilot-test certain exercises after seeing positive outcomes from a similar study in Israel. According to the study's principle investigator, this is UCI's first nurse-led grant sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Neonatal-trained nurses will perform range-of-motion exercises on 200 premature infants for four weeks, and a team that includes nurse investigators will collect and interpret the data. Performing evidence-based nursing is a key trait of ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®-designated hospitals, and UCI was the first hospital in Orange County to earn designation from the ANCC. A hospital administrator says that the NIH grant emphasizes the contributions of nurses to the organization's clinical care and research teams.

Source: EurekAlert

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