Leading Clinical Scholarship: Evolving an Enterprise-Level Nursing Research Program

Increasingly, integrated health systems are realizing that building a supportive infrastructure encouraging nursing scholarship is becoming more of an expectation than an enrichment. Due to increasing accreditation requirements for hospital recognition programs and to satisfy employee expectations, the need to build nursing-focused research and clinical scholarship affinity groups and councils is receiving more attention. However, building a nursing clinical scholarship community that is well-resourced and supportive of nurse-led scholarly work is more often a skill set of academic practice rather than community-based hospitals, calling for increasing creativity in division of resources.