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Table 1 Key steps in the development of the intervention

From: Describing the implementation of an innovative intervention and evaluating its effectiveness in increasing research capacity of advanced clinical nurses: using the consolidated framework for implementation research

Phase

Feature and timeline

Purpose

Action

Responsibility/who involved

Planning

Steering group: Commenced April 2010

Planning and development.

Develop intervention

Alert staff to intervention development

Call for interested staff to partake in intervention.

Members of the steering group

Funding : First funding received September 2010, funding applied for on a biannual basis

Source funding for post-doctoral research fellow.

Funding sourced for part time post-doctoral research fellow

Members of the steering group

Set up small research groups : First groups set up September 2010

 

Small research groups established

Steering group/members of research groups

Implementation

Steering group

Provide leadership and support and increased awareness of change in role of staff and supports available.

Monthly review meetings of progress of teams, information about initiative relayed to all levels of nursing management and academics, encouragement and motivation from senior nursing staff to nurse researchers.

Members of the steering group

Small research groups

Support, peer collaboration between academics and nurse researchers and experiential learning.

Conducted research.

Post-doctoral research fellow/clinical researchers/academic researchers.

Post-doctoral researcher:

Support research teams, particularly through collation and analysis of data.

Arranged meetings, conducted aspects of the research.

Post-doctoral research fellow

Research skills classes

Increase research capacity.

Developed or facilitated by nursing and academic members of the steering group, classes provided both face to face and online.

Steering group members.

Evaluation

Audit of research metrics: December 2015

Audit of dissemination/research output.

Audit presentations and publications.

Team leaders provided information to research facilitator on a monthly basis.

Research group leaders

Survey of skill utilisation and development: March 2012

Evaluation of changes in research capacity.

Development of questionnaire, data collections and analyses.

Research group members

Focus groups: May 2012

Evaluation of effectiveness of the intervention and barriers to its optimisation.

Focus groups.

Research group members