Interviews with Nurse Researchers

To date, AONL Foundation has awarded more than $94,000 in small grant funds to researchers studying issues impacting nursing leadership. Every year AONL Foundation awards grants up to $10,000 to projects aligned with the Foundation Research Priorities. For more information about our small grants program, click here.

Here are some of the researchers who have received funding through the AONE Foundation discussing their research.

 Jeffrey Adams, RN, PhD: In all seriousness, in addition to the funding from the AONE Foundation, a big part of the success of this study will be due to the AONE members and their organizations. The members involved are committed to understanding nursing leadership in their own organizations as well as in the profession as a whole. We are tremendously grateful to them for taking the time to do this study and help with this research. Without the two pieces of funding from the AONE Foundation and the AONE constituency, we would not be able to do this research. We are so thankful.
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 Valerie Moore: For the study we looked at how many times nurses see dynamic events occurring and how those events influence staff scheduling and workload. We want to give supervisors another way to look at staffing variables. Are we currently capturing all the variables we need in order to have the right number of nurses on the floor in a unit. To do that, we have to have a concrete understanding of what variables really influence nursing workload.
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 Donna Sullivan Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN: There still is a fairly high number of nurse executives who are stepping down or retiring in the next 5 years. This may be partly due to age, but our findings also suggest that there are other possible factors driving this exodus of key leaders who direct the delivery of health care. We as a profession need to understand those factors and intervene when possible. This type of research will illuminate the key factors that need to be addressed.
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