Table 1 Application of normalising process theory

Coherence

- What is the nursing and midwifery research capacity?

- How is this evident in our organisation?

- What do we want to achieve and how can we go about it?

- What benefits will accrue in building research capacity amongst nurses and midwives?

- Shared goals

- Role identification

- Finding value

Cognitive participation

- How do we get buy in from stakeholders?

- How do we reconstruct research as legitimate work for N&M in clinical practice environments?

- How do we sustain our efforts?

- How do we garner sponsorship, commitment, and resources from senior and executive level managers?.

- Working together

- Reorganisation of work patterns

- Legitimisation – defining actions

- Staying on the case

Collective action

- How can we work together to achieve shared goals?

- Taking responsibility and being accountable.

- Who will lead initiatives?

- Operational work

- Interaction

- Relational integration

- Skill set workability (Who gets to do what)

- Allocation of resources

Reflexive monitoring

- What are we learning?

- How can our learning inform our thinking and actions?

- Appraisal

- Redefinition

- Refinement