VIII - PMHN Role As A Member of The Research Team

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Psychiatric Nurses’ Role

as a Member of the
Research Team
Learning Objectives:
> Define what is nursing research.
> Compare nursing research and nursing process according
to their outcome on patient care.
> Describe characteristics of psychiatric mental health nurse
as a member of the research team.
> Discuss the vital roles’and responsibilities of psychiatric
mental health nurse as a member of the research team.
Collaboration and cooperation with
other researchers and members of
the multidisciplinary team is crucial
for successful research.
Psychiatric Nurses’ Role
as a Member of the
Research Team
1. Key role as patient advocate, 2. Participants are safe and fully
ensuring patients' safety and informed. Ensuring patients give
protection, and that patients are fully informed consent before
well supported throughout the being enrolled to trials is
research study. fundamental to the role.
3. Clinical research is vital for 4. Research nurses play a vital
finding new treatments and role in ensuring clinical research
improving patient care. studies run smoothly.
5. Research nurses need a 6. In-depth knowledge of the
thorough understanding of specialty under investigation.
the research process &
terminology.
7. Research nurses are at 8. Research nurses need a wide
the forefront of this range of skills including
process. management and organizational
skills, teaching and mentoring,
communication and IT.
9. Another significant role of 10. Duties of a research nurse
a research nurse is to collect include preparing trial protocols
data throughout the trial. and other trial-related
documentation, submitting study
proposals for regulatory approval,
and coordinating the initiation,
management and completion of the
research.
Every member of the team has
a significant part to play but
research nurses are the
lynchpin(VITAL) of our team.
The role is extremely
interesting, dynamic and
challenging but demands a
wide range of skills.
#PATIENT PROTECTION…
Patient advocacy is one of the most
important of the research nurse’s
roles’ and responsibilities.
REFERENCES:
Department of Health (2005) Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care.
London: DH.
European Medicines Agency (2002) Guideline For Good Clinical Practice. London: EMA.
Kmietowicz Z (2010) Regulations on medical research need to be reinterpreted not
rewritten. BMJ; 340, 2732.
Poston RD, Buescher R (2010) The essential role of the clinical research nurse. Urologic
Nursing; 30: 1, 55-63.
Royal College of Nursing (2009) Research Ethics: RCN guidance for nurses. London:
RCN.World Medical Association (2008) Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical
Research Involving Human Subjects. Ferney-Voltaire, France: WMA.

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