The Nursing Research Council promotes creative, innovative thinking leading to new nursing research ideas and projects that result in positive patient outcomes.

Nursing Research Council activities include:

• Increasing the educational component of nursing research and strengthening the use of the research process
• Providing consistency throughout the organization for nursing research including:
• Advancing use of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
• Supporting link between EBP and research
• Facilitating support for IRB process
• Encouraging professionalism
• Promoting recruitment and retention
• Developing a forum for creative, innovative thinking
• Generating new nursing research ideas and projects
• Mentoring nurses to understand, evaluate and conduct nursing research
• Increasing collaboration among nurses throughout the organization and nationally on nursing research
• Increasing regional and national visibility of nursing research at WFUBMC