Phase | Feature and timeline | Purpose | Action | Responsibility/who involved |
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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 | Â | 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 |