Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I: DISCOVERING THE RESEARCH TO POLICY CONNECTION -- 1 Back to the Future: From Evidence to Policy -- Select Examples of Past Policy Changes -- Where Do We Go From Here? The Intersection of Politics and Policy -- Applying Kingdon and Gladwell's Theories to Policy Change by Nurses -- 2 Nursing Outcomes Research: Connections to Workforce Issues and Policy Decisions -- Health Services Research and Nursing Outcomes Research -- Challenges in Nursing Outcomes Research -- Nursing Outcomes Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research -- The Future and the Role of Nursing Outcomes Research -- Lessons Learned -- SECTION II: TOWARD EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY: COLLECTING AND MANAGING THE DATA -- Introduction -- 3 Addressing the Complexities of Survey Research -- It Is All About the Why: Determining Your Survey Research Topic -- Do You Know What You Are Asking? Common Problems With Survey Questions -- Mail Survey Method: Imperatives and Pitfalls -- Collecting Data by Survey-The Best-Laid Plans Can Go Awry -- 4 Forecasting a State Supply and Demand of RNs Using the Revised 2005 HRSA Models -- The HRSA Nursing Demand and Supply Models -- Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Individual States: Three Approaches -- FCN Experiences in Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Florida -- Summary of FCN Experiences: Lessons Learned in Using the HRSA Models for Forecasting in Florida and Recommendations for Other States -- 5 Missing Data Effects on Nurse Workforce Analysis and Projections -- Sources and Causes of Missing Data -- Analyzing and Classifying Missingness: The Bias Analysis -- Traditional Methods for Dealing with Missing Data -- Recent Developments in Missing Data Techniques -- Lessons Learned.

SECTION III: RESEARCH AND WORKPLACE POLICY -- Introduction -- 6 Work Satisfaction Among Staff Nurses in Acute Care Hospitals -- Sample -- Methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Policy Implications -- 7 Workload, Quality of Care, and Job Satisfaction in Home Health Nurses -- Background and Significance -- Method -- Findings -- Policy Implications -- 8 The Emotional Demands of Nursing -- A Crisis in Nurse Staffing -- Why Nurses Leave Direct Patient Care -- The Emotional Foundations of Burnout -- Methods -- Results -- What Influences Burnout Among Registered Nurses? -- Which Facets of the Emotional Context of Care Might Contribute to an Understanding of Burnout Over and Above the Effect of Individual and Occupational Characteristics? -- Lessons Learned -- SECTION IV: RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- Introduction -- 9 Nursing's Long-Term Pipeline: A Study of High School Students Using a Unique Data Collection Approach -- North Dakota's Unique Nursing Education History -- Tomorrow's Nursing Pipeline: A Literature Review -- Nursing as a Specific Career Vision in High School -- The High School Student Survey -- Discussion -- 10 The Looming Crisis of an Inadequate Pipeline for Nursing Faculty -- Faculty Supply and Demand -- The Pipeline for Faculty Roles -- Discussion -- 11 Clinical Simulation and the Need for Evidence-Based Policy -- Types of Simulation -- Standardized Patients -- Simulation and Policy -- Lessons Learned -- SECTION V: FUNDING THE RESEARCH TO POLICY CONNECTION -- Introduction -- 12 Of Horses and Ponies: Taking Your Show to Washington -- Why Should I Learn to Dance? -- The Dance: One Step at a Time -- The Federal Budget Process -- 13 AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Nurse Researchers -- AHRQ's Changing Mission -- AHRQ's Research Priorities -- Research Funding Opportunities -- Training and Career Development Programs.

Research Infrastructure Support Programs -- Getting an AHRQ Research Grant -- Overview of the Grant Application Submission, Review, and Award Process -- 14 From Issues to Action: How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Influences Health Policy -- Governmental Policy: RWJF's Role in Advancing the Nurse Practitioner Role -- Organizational Policy: Transforming Care at the Bedside -- The Process of Influencing Policy -- Identifying Promising Solutions to Improve Health and Health Care -- Creating the Evidence to Convince Policy Makers to Improve Health and Health Care Policy -- Restrictions on Lobbying: A Delicate Balance -- Building Capacity of Individuals and Institutions -- Conclusion: How RWJF Influences Policy -- 15 A Metaphor for Addressing the Nurse Shortage in Oregon -- Northwest Health Foundation -- Farming and the Relationship to the Nursing Workforce Crisis -- Cultivating the Environment for Nursing -- Planning for Future Crops: Supporting a Nursing Policy Agenda -- Conclusion and Key Findings -- Lessons Learned -- SECTION VI: MAKING THE RESEARCH TO POLICY CONNECTION -- Introduction -- 16 Policy Development and Nursing -- Citizenship in a Democracy -- Nurses as Participants in a Democratic Community -- The Power of Numbers -- Politics for Policy -- Beyond Baseline -- 17 State Funding for Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment: The Vermont Experience -- Applying Kingdon's Framework -- The Political Stream -- The Policy Stream -- 18 Using Research to Influence Federal Policy: The Nephrology Nurses' Experience -- The Research-Policy Connection -- The Revised Model in Action -- Lessons Learned -- EPILOGUE -- 19 From Research to Policy-The Ultimate Translation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.