EXCEED THE SPACEPROVIDED. Nursing Research Training in Symptom Management The purpose of this competitive renewal is to provide funding for 6 predoctoral students and 4 postdoctoral trainees in symptom management. In response to faculty'scurrent symptom-related programs of research, this proposal has been expanded to include fatigue as well as dyspnea, pain and insomnia. A new objective was added to place more emphasis on intervention research. Therefore, the objectives are to: 1) prepare trainees with knowledge and skills necessary to conduct research on symptom experiences, intervention strategies, and health-related outcomes, 2) mentor trainees to develop and implement programs of research on these symptoms in diverse populations across the illness trajectory in a variety of health care settings, 3) prepare trainees with grantsmanship skills that include writing, conducting, and administering a funded grant, 4) increase numbers of ethnically diverse nurse scholars prepared to conduct research on symptoms, and 5) increase numbers of nurse scholars prepared to conduct intervention research related to any one symptom, or naturally occurring clusters of these symptoms. Included in the training program's faculty are two Program Directors, 10 additional Core Faculty, and 10 Affiliated Facultywith multi-disciplinary research related to symptoms. The predoctoral curriculumincludesthe doctoral program requirements of the School of Nursing and a 3-quarter seminar series on Nursing Issues in Symptom Research. Postdoctoral training is tailored to individualneeds, with focus on complex issues and advanced methodologies related to symptom clusters. Postdoctoral trainees are also required to attend the 3-quarter seminar series, but spendadditional ^^ie in a grantsmanship summer seminar that involves activities related to directing a research team and fiscal | management. Residency experiences aretailored to individualgoals andobtained throughout thetraining periodfrom core faculty and affiliated faculty. All 10trainees are required to attend monthly research meetings of the Core Faculty. Preparing nurse scholars with advanced knowledge oftheory andpractice related to symptom management, withrigorous qualitative and quantitative research training, is essential to move knowledge forward. The faculty at UCSF School of Nursing are in a unique position to provide this training because of our programs of research and collaborative experiences with others involved in symptom-related research. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
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