Capezuti says the results of her research will benefit patients by offering new solutions for nurses providing their care. Ultimately, we are trying to help staff nurses by giving them a new repertoire of interventions that we think will work better. The collaboration of her team members, Capezuti believes, has shaped and directed the research project. Those different perspectives represented by the variety of people sitting at that table really enhance your ability to ask new and more meaningful questions. She has been asked to create a degree for nursing for those interested in directing research studies.
Nurses are excellent project directors.
When you look in the newspaper, you see ads asking for nurse managers for major research projects. That's who they want. Everybody knows a nurse is the best project manager you can get. We'll find the best way to address that, whether it's through a new master's degree, or a postgraduate certificate.