Working groups discussed key challenges and strategies for nursing and health research, strategies to advance nursing and midwifery's contribution to health research for development, and priority setting for nursing and midwifery research in the next decade. The aim of ACHR is to advise the Director General of WHO on global health issues in research. ICN will continue to work with ACHR to increase the visibility of nursing research and the involvement of nurses in health research. Participants pointed out that strategies should be cost effective and contribute to enabling environment for HPSR with priority on research-poor countries. The consultation discussed the aim and strategies of HPSR capacity building and focused on researcher training, learning by doing, capacity strengthening strategies, networking and institutional strengthening.
Priority has to be given to research-poor countries.
Its purpose is to strengthen collaboration between nurse researchers and to promote nursing research. Some of the key issues addressed by WENR include an action plan to advance nursing research in the European Region and a new position paper on nursing research that addresses capacity development in nursing research. The members of the ICN Research Network are an important source of information and a conduit for sharing global research issues and trends. We often speak of nurses as the key health care providers. Yet we do not always collect the evidence to support the claim that what nurses do makes a difference in health outcomes.